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When , we often imagine studios pressuring filmmakers to follow it up. “Get the sequel out fast,” is the prevailing thought. And while sometimes that happens with varying degrees of success,George Miller any pressure to follow up Mad Max: Fury Road after that film’s success.

He just kind of had to, deep in his bones. And so was born. As most people know, the first seeds of Furiosa came in the development of Fury Road.



To give the actors backgrounds for their characters, Miller developed elaborate backstories for each. And in the case of Furiosa, that morphed into a whole separate screenplay. One that the writer-director very much liked.

“The whole theory was that if Fury Road got enough traction we’d at some point, come and make this film,” Miller told io9. But that was around 2015. It’s currently, spoiler alert, 2024.

So what was the film’s journey in between? Well, Miller made 3000 Years of Longing and Warner Bros. experienced multiple changes in not just ownership but direction of its film studio. “I knew [Furiosa] would happen at one point,” Miller said.

“You’re drawn to stories first. You feel a gravitational pull to stories or a compulsion to tell a story. I’m a habitual storyteller.

I started as a little kid and now it’s just part of how I work and how I am. The stories compete in your head, almost, in a Darwinian way. And some of them, you’re saying, ‘You know, this is the one that I most want to tell at this point.

’ And that’s just.

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