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George Miller has again stoked the flames for a return to his dusty dystopian wasteland, saying he has two new Mad Max screenplays already completed.
"Somewhere, if the planets align, there will be two other films," the director told The Independent, while promoting a one-off UK theatrical screening of Mad Max: Fury Road's "black and chrome" version, recently released in Australia on Blu-Ray.
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Fury Road, the fourth instalment in Miller's franchise, burst into Australian cinemas almost exactly two years ago, off glowing international buzz.
The action epic, almost 15 years in the making and shot over 120 days in 2012, became one of the year's biggest, earning $21.7 million at the local box office, over $500 million globally, and picking up six Oscars and ten AACTAs.
The lengthy delay in getting the film to the screen – its predecessor was 1985's Beyond Thunderdome – resulted in a wealth of material and backstories from the Mad Max universe, said Miller, brought out in the writing process during Fury Road.
"We dug down deep into the subtext, the backstory of all the characters, and indeed the world... and without really thinking about it, we wrote two other screenplays just as part of the bible of stories," he told The Independent.
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While the 72-year-old director confirmed he'll take on a "quick and small" project first to "reboot the brain", returning to the Mad Max universe seems a given.
One idea he's kicked about in interviews recently is a prequel focusing on the life of Imperator Furiosa, the film's one-armed heroine played by Charlize Theron.
George Miller at this year's Tropfest. Photo: Jessica Hromas
"I know who his mother was. I know how it was that a man who is mute and blind survived the apocalypse. I know his story very well," Miller said about the musically gifted, flame-throwing weirdo.
"If we get to make another movie, the Doof Warrior will be there!"
In January, star Tom Hardy all but confirmed he'd be reprising the iconic role, telling a TV panel: "It's a question of when. I'm there, I'm just waiting for it."
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