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Mad Max: Miller Has Plans for Two More Movies, Plus Furiosa Spinoff
George Miller has plans for the Mad Max franchise. The Fury Road director confirmed he has ideas for two more films, in addition to a Furiosa-led spinoff, and expressed his optimism about the franchise's future.
Asked if there are two sequels in the works, Miller told IndieWire, "There are two stories, both involving Mad Max, and also a Furiosa story. We're still solving, we’ve got to play out the Warners thing, it seems to be pretty clear that it’s going to happen."
By "play out the Warner things," Miller may be referring to a lawsuit he filed against Warner Bros. in 2017. Miller claimed the studio owes his production company, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, which he co-runs with producing partner Doug Mitchell, an unpaid $7 million. Under the terms of the contract, the $7 million was only owed if the film didn't go over budget.
Warner Bros. hit back with a lawsuit of its own, accusing Kennedy Miller Mitchell of breaking the rules of his contract. According to the studio, Miller agreed to create Fury Road as a PG-13, 100-minute movie. However, the theatrical release landed an R-rating and ran for 120 minutes.
Nevertheless, Warner Bros. seemed interested in continuing to work with Miller as recently as March. "We’d love to work with George Miller on furthering the Mad Max franchise," then-Warner Bros. Chief Executive Kevin Tsuijihara told The LA Times. Of course, Tsuijihara resigned weeks later following allegations of impropriety, to be replaced by Ann Sarnoff just last month. It is unclear if Sarnoff has similar plans for the franchise, but Miller's comments suggest that may be the case.
"It was always the plan to do three of them, so I think we're still waiting on being given the opportunity and the green light to go ahead on the next one," Mad Max himself Tom Hardy said Comic-Con International in San Diego. "But when I engaged on that there was a plethora of material on it."
"Obviously, it belongs to Warner Bros. so it would be them who green-lit it," he added. "But a lot of projects are in radial, you know you wait for something to land when it's real, and as soon as it's real we'll jump on it."
With Fury Road, Miller returned to the franchise some 30 years after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome rounded off the Mel Gibson-starring trilogy. Earning 10 Academy Award nominations and winning six, Fury Road was praised as being a fresh reinvention of the series.
Released in 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nathan Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Mad Max: Miller Has Plans for Two More Movies, Plus Furiosa Spinoff
George Miller has plans for the Mad Max franchise. The Fury Road director confirmed he has ideas for two more films, in addition to a Furiosa-led spinoff, and expressed his optimism about the franchise's future.
Asked if there are two sequels in the works, Miller told IndieWire, "There are two stories, both involving Mad Max, and also a Furiosa story. We're still solving, we’ve got to play out the Warners thing, it seems to be pretty clear that it’s going to happen."
By "play out the Warner things," Miller may be referring to a lawsuit he filed against Warner Bros. in 2017. Miller claimed the studio owes his production company, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, which he co-runs with producing partner Doug Mitchell, an unpaid $7 million. Under the terms of the contract, the $7 million was only owed if the film didn't go over budget.
Warner Bros. hit back with a lawsuit of its own, accusing Kennedy Miller Mitchell of breaking the rules of his contract. According to the studio, Miller agreed to create Fury Road as a PG-13, 100-minute movie. However, the theatrical release landed an R-rating and ran for 120 minutes.
Nevertheless, Warner Bros. seemed interested in continuing to work with Miller as recently as March. "We’d love to work with George Miller on furthering the Mad Max franchise," then-Warner Bros. Chief Executive Kevin Tsuijihara told The LA Times. Of course, Tsuijihara resigned weeks later following allegations of impropriety, to be replaced by Ann Sarnoff just last month. It is unclear if Sarnoff has similar plans for the franchise, but Miller's comments suggest that may be the case.
"It was always the plan to do three of them, so I think we're still waiting on being given the opportunity and the green light to go ahead on the next one," Mad Max himself Tom Hardy said Comic-Con International in San Diego. "But when I engaged on that there was a plethora of material on it."
"Obviously, it belongs to Warner Bros. so it would be them who green-lit it," he added. "But a lot of projects are in radial, you know you wait for something to land when it's real, and as soon as it's real we'll jump on it."
With Fury Road, Miller returned to the franchise some 30 years after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome rounded off the Mel Gibson-starring trilogy. Earning 10 Academy Award nominations and winning six, Fury Road was praised as being a fresh reinvention of the series.
Released in 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nathan Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.