Fury Road’ Prequel Is About

The big picture

• George Miller is already thinking ahead with at least one more
  Mad Max
  history in the works
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  offers a deeper look into Furiosa's backstory with Anya Taylor-Joy taking on Charlize Theron's role.
• Miller has a whole backstory similar to
  furious
  written by
  Fury Road
  's Max, originally played by Tom Hardy.

Always one step ahead of the game, Mad Max creator of the universe, George Miller, says it's already locked and loaded with at least one more tale of the dystopian wasteland. The director's last film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga It might not fire up its engines and speed into theaters until this Friday, May 24, but Miller says he and his collaborators are ready with an idea for what could be the next installment in the franchise. During an interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub before going to Cannes Film Festivalwhere the image celebrated its world premiere Last week, Miller talked about the next story he wants to tell.

The director revealed that the creative process behind bringing Mad Max: Fury Road on the big screen meant forming a backstory not only about Furiosa (who will be seen in the next film), but also about where Max was before the events of 2015. Production directed by Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. When asked if the team had potential ideas for future installments, Miller explained:

“Mainly because to tell the story
Fury Road
which takes place over a very compressed period of time, it could be argued that the first act of
Fury Road
and the last act are being played out in near real time over three days to tell this story on the run. Picking up all the backstory, all the exposition along the way, everyone who worked on the film, not just the cars, but all the designers, all the accessory makers, everyone, had to understand the story of bottom very intimately so that it was consistent. .

So we had to write the story of Furiosa and the 18-year-old, as it turns out, before meeting her in
Fury Road
.
We also had to write Max's year story the year before we met him

Fury Road

.
So we have this story. We wrote it as a novel, Nico Lathouris and I, and this is the story we have yet to tell.”

How does 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' relate to 'Mad Max: Fury Road'?

As Miller said, the prequel film crashing into theaters this weekend will give audiences a taste of what the character Theron made famous was up to all those years before she ran off with five Immortan Joe's (Hugh Keays-Byrne) wives on a quest to return to The Green Place. starring Anya Taylor-Joy as the titular villain, the film will shed light on when and how she was kidnapped, contained, lost an arm, got a robotic replacement, and ended up in the Furious Citadel. The actress stars alongside Chris Hemsworth, who appears as the villain Dementus in Miller's latest project fueled by adrenaline and heart.

Learn everything there is to know Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagahere in our handy guide and watch Weintraub's interview with Miller above.

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