A sequel to
Mad Max: Fury Road was looking less and less likely after an intense legal battle between Warner Bros. and George Miller's production company, but the veteran director has shared an update that's sure to make fans very happy indeed.
According to Miller, "the chaos has stabilized," and work can now get underway on not one, but two follow-ups to his action masterpiece.
"It was hard to get anyone’s attention, so we went to litigation," Miller explained to
IndieWire when asked how the legal wranglings hindered progress on the sequels.
"The chaos has stabilized and it’s become extremely positive as the dust seems to have settled after [the AT&T merger]."
Miller has previously talked about wanting to helm a pair of direct sequels to
Fury Road and a Furiosa (Charlize Theron) spinoff, and it doesn't sound like plans have changed.
"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."
So, as great as this news is, it's obviously going to be a while before we actually seen any movement on these projects. Still, it's comforting to know that we will ride historic on the Fury Road again in the future!
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