Following the success of Mad Max: Fury Road, we were all eager to see more of George Miller's action-packed dystopian future. But legal wrangling with Warner Bros. over unpaid earnings have left any possible follow-ups in limbo. Now, according to Miller, the desert sand storm is clearing and he's looking forward to pressing ahead in the future.
"It all started because of the chaos at Warner Bros. and not Kevin Tsujihara, it was pre all that," Miller tells Indiewire. "He wasn’t the antagonist, because a lot of people didn’t know what was going on and were not prepared to make a definitive stand; everybody was running around fearful, it seems, through three regimes. It was hard to get anyone’s attention, so we went to litigation. The chaos has stabilized and it’s become extremely positive as the dust seems to have settled after the AT&T merger."
Currently, the writer/director is concentrating on the film he intends to make next, Three Thousand Years Of Longing, which has Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton attached to star. But after that? He already has ideas for future instalments of Mad Max. "There are two stories, both involving Mad Max, and also a Furiosa story," Miller says. "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."
We can but hope, but even if it doesn't, at least we got Fury Road.