"Mad Max: Fury Road" director, George Miller, has announced that there will be two more "Mad Max" movies on the way.
"Mad Max: Fury Road," released in May, may not have broken box office records but was a global hit raking in $370 million. According to ComingSoon.net, Director Miller has said, "This film [Fury Road] was green lit three times and fell over three times over a decade. We went to shoot with Mel Gibson back in 2001, but then 9/11 happened, and the American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar close to 30 per cent, so we lost that amount of budget overnight....We were then rained out of Australia."
Further, the director said, "The desert rained for the first time in 15 years, and we ended up in South West Africa, Namibia. But in this process, we had dug down deep into the backstory, not only of the characters, but of every vehicle. How the steering wheels became religious artifacts and things like that. So we ended up with two scripts, without really trying. We're talking to the studio [Warner Bros] about it as we speak, but which one of the two stories will happen next, I'm not so sure."
According to Design and Trend, Tom Hardy, who played Max, and Charlize Theron, who played Furiosa in "Mad Max: Fury Road" fought constantly during production. But it probably was the key to the film's success.
In an interview with Esquire, according to Yahoo! News, Charlize Theron has said, "We f--kin' went at it, yeah. And on other days, he and George [Miller, the director] went at it. It was the isolation, and the fact that we were stuck in a rig for the entire shoot. We shot a war movie on a moving truck -- there's very little green screen. It was like a family road trip that just never went anywhere. We never got anywhere. We just drove. We drove into nothingness, and that was maddening sometimes."
"It's material that's really frightening -- we didn't have a script," Theron explained further. "Tom and I are actors who take our jobs seriously. Both of us want to please the directors we work with, and when you don't know if you can deliver on that, it's a frightening place to be -- and for Tom more than me, because he was stepping into big shoes."
If two more movies are on the way then Theron and Hardy will have more fights down the road. Do you think the next two movies would be more successful than the first one?
