Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has been a contributing factor to the worst Memorial Day weekend for thirty years. Despite its well-publicised troubles, director George Miller has been talking about more Mad Max coming down the pipe, but he does accept that Furiosa might impact this.
Miller was developing The Wasteland. This would also be a prequel, leading into Fury Road. It was to feature Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) and cover the year leading up to his capture by Immortan Joe and the events of Mad Max: Fury Road.
He was talking to the Happy. Sad. Confused. podcast and said The Wasteland was more expansive than Mad Max: Fury Road, and tells a longer story:
“I’d say that it certainly has a lot of action in it, but it is also a saga. It’s a year-long story.
‘Fury Road’ happened over three days and two nights. You could almost say that the first act, some part of the second act, and the third act mostly play in real time. Quite a different kettle of fish than ‘Furiosa.’
He said he is still waiting to see how Furiosa shakes out before figuring out when, or how, to move forward.
Furiosa might be struggling at the box office, but it is a critical darling. It may also pull a Fury Road and do mega business at home via PVOD, then huge eyeballs on whatever streamer it ends up living on.
The original Mad Max held the record in the Guinness Book of Records for the most profitable film ever made for twenty years until The Blair Witch Project claimed the record in 1999.
Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) didn’t even receive a proper release in the US due to distributor issues from a takeover, and it still turned a decent profit. This was mainly because the budgets were very tight. Furiosa, and Fury Road, both had a +$150 million budget.
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