I will go out on a limb today and say something controversial. Are you ready? Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the greatest films ever. Shocking, I know! I should be fired for printing such blasphemy. With George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing making wishes come true in theaters, the time-honored director is making headlines while keeping the PR train on track. During a recent chat with AV Club, Miller revealed that he and writer Nico Lathouris penned materials related to Tom Hardy’s Mad Max that goes beyond the events of Mad Max: Fury Road. How much, you ask? How about a novel’s worth of backstory related to Max’s journey before the events of Miller’s 2015 masterpiece? Does that information get your engine purring? Should I find you a bottle of silver spray paint so you can go to town? Could you handle another Fury Road prequel?
Speaking with AV Club, Miller says he and Lathouris wrote a plethora of material about Max while drumming up ideas for Fury Road. Instead of scrapping the unused material, the duo kept it all, and Miller is thinking about dusting it off for a new prequel project.
“We also wrote, not a screenplay, but almost in novel form, Nico Lathouris and I, what happened to Max in that year before, and that’s something that we’ll look at further down the track later. But in telling each other the story of Furiosa, everything in Fury Road had to be explained. In my mind, I have a backstory of the Doof Warrior, who plays the guitar. How could a blind man who all he can do is play a guitar, how does he get to survive in a wasteland where everybody is in extremis? How did he come to be there? So we wrote little stories for every character when we made Fury Road.”
Please give us the Doof Warrior spinoff, Miller! That’s the kind of Mad Max content I need in my life. Where did he learn how to play? Who built his guitar? Does he have plans to open for Rammstein in the future? Inquiring minds want to know!
With Miller’s Furiosa, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a young Imperator Furiosa, and a Fury Road sequel on the horizon, does Miller have room in his schedule to develop another Mad Max story? If the answer is yes, that project will likely be years away from becoming a reality. Still, the Mad Max landscape is already a wellspring of stories despite taking place in a barren wasteland. Miller could explore that territory for years, and fans would be eager to take the ride. Let us know in the comments if you’d be down for a Fury Road prequel focusing on Max’s time before encountering Furiosa.