George Miller Says Another MAD MAX Movie is "Coming Down The Pike" and is in Preparation

Thanks to director George Miller, we have a new update to share with you regarding the long-awaited sequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller previously confirmed that there are sequels that will happen and those films would focus on Mad Max and Furiosa:

"There are two stories, both involving Mad Max, and also a Furiosa story. We’re still solving, we’ve got to play out the [Warner Bros.] thing, it seems to be pretty clear that it’s going to happen."

The filmmaker now says that the film is currently in preparation and that it will happen after his next film project, Three Thousand Years of Longing. He optimistically talked to Deadline about this and the art of multi-tasking:

“I’m not done with the Mad Max story and I think you have to be a multi-tasker and there’s certainly another Mad Max coming down the pike after this. We’re in preparation on that as well. It’s an interesting question, the idea of multi-tasking. I discuss this with other filmmakers and I think what happens to me is that when you’re working on one thing, and you get so distracted and focused on that one thing, it’s like a creative holiday to focus on the other one for a bit. It helps you achieve that objectivity, to look at the thing afresh each time and say, I thought I was doing this, but it doesn’t seem to be the case now.

“The more different the films are, the more interesting that is. A really good example: I was working on Happy Feet Two while Fury Road was getting up and then falling down. They couldn’t have been more different. One was animation, the other live action. It worked for me.”

Mad Max: Fury Road starred Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron and they have both said they would return to the franchise when the films were ready to go, so they are expected to reprise their roles.

The Coma-Doof Warrior was also brought up in the interview and when talking about the crazy mutant guitar-playing character, he said:

“I would like to think he’s still alive, somehow. In fact, we’ve got a whole backstory on how he came to be in that position. I often think about it. The approach to the film was, you have to be able to explain everything. Not only all the characters, but every object, how it all found its way into this world and how it survived. In his case, he was blind from birth. When things started going a bit crazy, he and his mother were left in a mining town. The only way they could survive was to go into a place where there was a competitive advantage to being blind. And that was to go deep down into a mine shaft where they were able to survive. He took what was most precious to him, a musical instrument, probably a guitar.”

As for how the character wound up strapped to one of Immortan Joe’s insane death vehicles, Miller said:

“As they were careening through the wasteland, someone heard this music echoing out of that mine shaft, went down there and luckily they saw him as an asset. I think they killed his mother because she wasn’t of any use. They took him and he eventually ended up as the equivalent of the drummer, the fife player or the bagpiper, in Immortan Joe’s army.”

It would be interesting to see the Doof Warrior return in some way in the sequel. But, I’m just happy that the sequel is moving forward! Like many of you, I’ve been waiting for a sequel to Fury Road since the moment I finished watching the movie in 2015!