George Miller has confirmed that Warner Bros. are working on two more instalments to his Mad Max series.
Miller, who has directed all of the previous films in the series, is quoted as saying the following:
“This film, was green lit three times and fell over three times over a decade. We went to shoot with Mel Gibson back in 2001, but then 9/11 happened, and the American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar close to 30 per cent, so we lost that amount of budget overnight.
We were then rained out of Australia. The desert rained for the first time in 15 years, and we ended up in South West Africa, Namibia. But in this process, we had dug down deep into the backstory, not only of the characters, but of every vehicle. How the steering wheels became religious artefacts and things like that.
So we ended up with two scripts, without really trying. We’re talking to the studio about it as we speak, but which one of the two stories will happen next, I’m not so sure.”
In summary, Fury Road had been in development for 30 years, and the development over this time left him with two scripts full of unused material that will become the basis for the next two films.
Thoughts on this news? Are you excited to see two more Mad Max films?
By Ruari Williamson
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