Mad Max: Fury Road gets its official general release today in the UK and if reviews are to be believed (check our review here) then any of you going to see it are in for a hell of a treat. It’s being described as “mind blowing”, “jaw dropping”, “ferociously insane” and…well you get the gist.
Lead star Tom Hardy – who takes over from original Max Mel Gibson – has been speaking about the movie at the Cannes Film Festival and stated, “I’m totally ready to go and do another one.”
Hardy also spoke about how difficult the filming process was and how none of the cast had any idea what the final movie would look like:
“Filming it was very hard to understand…The gargantuan thing that George was trying to achieve, there was no possible way to articulate what we saw in those two hours on the screen…So those seven months on set were long because we just didn’t know what he was thinking. You knew it was brilliant, but we just didn’t know….Now I get it.” Hardy continued, “I know it works and I can kind of feel the world I’m in…I’m totally ready to go do another one.”
Director George Miller admitted way back at last year’s Comic-Con where the first trailer debuted that Fury Road was the first of a new trilogy of Mad Max movies:
“In order to tell this story, we came up with two others. We’ve written the screenplay of one and the novelization of another, but it’s a very rough novel. We kept working on them while we were working on other things.”
Hardy also recently revealed to Esquire that he had initially signed on for a further three Mad Max movies but that, “Everything’s based on figures and how things are perceived. Inevitably it’s a business.” Based on the overall positive reactions that Fury Road is getting then it probably will do decent box-office numbers, at least enough to warrant one sequel. A potential idea for a sequel or spin-off is rumoured to be based on Imperator Furiosa, the one-armed warrior played by Charlize Theron.
For those who have already seen Mad Max:Fury Road, would you like to see Furiosa next?
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Originally published May 14, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
