Nine years after “Mad Max: Fury Road” blazed madly on screen, reinvigorating the “Mad Max” franchise in the process, filmmaker George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is just a few short weeks from release. Set for a May 24 release, we’ll get word even sorry in mid-May at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film will make its world premiere.
While Miller previously teased another potential “Mad Max” prequel at CinemCon 2024, set one year before “Fury Road” (‘Furiosa’ is set somewhere between 15-20 years earlier), the director has essentially said he’s writing it now, full stop, and currently in the process of turning the novella into a screenplay.
“In doing what we did in the preparation of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ we also wrote what happened to Max in the year before we encounter him in [that film],” Miller told Entertainment Weekly this week. “And as we get towards the end of this movie, the chronology… Basically, we had to see that Mad Max was lurking around somewhere because we do know what happened. The writers know what happened to Mad Max in that year before, and we have a whole story of that, which I would like to do sometime if I get the chance.”
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During the same interview, Miller was asked about an update on the prequel project, at which point he responded by saying, “Well, we are certainly working on it. And as I say, we wrote that basically as a novella, and now we’ve got a chance, we will get that into a screenplay form, and then we’ll take it from there.”
Fans of the long-running action series that started in 1979 will surely be happy to learn that with the release of ‘Furiosa’ just on the horizon, it doesn’t mean the franchise is going to run out of steam anytime soon. “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is scheduled to be released in theatres by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 24, 2024.