Whena film is a huge success, we often imagine studios pressuring filmmakers to follow it up.
Get the sequel out fast, is the prevailing thought.
He just kind of had to, deep in his bones.
George Miller with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth in Furiosa.Image: Warner Bros.
And soFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagawas born.
As most people know,the first seeds of Furiosa camein the development of Fury Road.
To give the actors backgrounds for their characters, Miller developed elaborate backstories for each.
And in the case of Furiosa, that morphed into a whole separate screenplay.
One that the writer-director very much liked.
But that was around 2015.
Its currently, spoiler alert, 2024.
So what was the films journey in between?
I knew [Furiosa] would happen at one point, Miller said.
Youre drawn to stories first.
You feel a gravitational pull to stories or a compulsion to tell a story.
Im a habitual storyteller.
I started as a little kid and now its just part of how I work and how I am.
The stories compete in your head, almost, in a Darwinian way.
And thats just how it happens.
And luckily, the planets aligned, and we were able to sort of do it.
And its not just in their words, its by their actions.
And we benefited from that immensely in the making of this film.
Unlike thewell-documented troubles we had on Fury Road.
So, by hell or high water, Furiosa was made.
George Miller had to.
And this weekend, hes giving it to us.
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