The world of has been a part of writer-director George Miller’s imagination for close to 50 years. From 1979’s , which introduced a then-unknown Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky, to the new , the fifth film in the franchise now playing in theatres, Miller, 79, has spent the bulk of his life as a filmmaker imagining the last vestiges of humanity fighting and surviving in a treacherous After being delayed for over a decade, and 30 years after the third instalment opened in theatres, 2015’s belated Essentially playing out as a two-plus hour car chase across a “So much of basically happens in real time. But we had to write quite extensive stuff for the backstory and it gradually emerged as a screenplay for Furiosa in the 18 years from when the moment she’s taken until she becomes the Imperator Furiosa, this quasi mythic Road Warrior,” Miller tells Postmedia in an interview.
“So we wrote the story of Furiosa and indeed, we wrote the story of the year of Max before we encounter him in .” That secondary prequel/sequel, tentatively titled , is also written and ready to go if Miller gets the greenlight from movie studio bosses at Warner Bros. Set two decades before the events of his Oscar-winning , the new prequel follows Furiosa (initially played by Alyla Browne) after she is snatched as a 10-year-old from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the clutches of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus (a vampy , sporting a hilarious fake nose).
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