Mad Max: Is It Based on a Comic Book, Novel, or an Original Story? By Film fans who are new to the franchise are often curious whether it’s based on a or is an . The highly stylized franchise has had movies in multiple decades and has made the jump to the world of video games, so it has a lot in common with many other science-fiction franchises that sprang from novels or comic books. So do comic books or novels serve as the basis for Max Rockatansky’s trials and tribulations or are they original stories? Here is a guide to the franchise’s origins.

Is the Mad Max franchise based on a comic book or a novel? No, the Mad Max franchise is not based on a comic book or a novel. The franchise was first created in 1979 by George Miller and Byron Kennedy. Mel Gibson played Max Rockatansky in the first three Mad Max films released between 1979 and 1985 and took over the role for Mad Max: Fury Road.

However, a prequel comic book series based on Fury Road was released monthly between May 20 and August 5, 2015. Is Mad Max an original story? Yes, Mad Max is an original story. George Miller and Byron Kennedy developed the story and characters.

The series follows Max Rockatansky, an Australian cop living in a dystopian future in which social order and environmental stability have broken down. Tragedy strikes Max when his wife and child are killed by a violent biker gang who he later kills in revenge. Max then becomes a drifter who helps people in need despite his initial resistance and .