This month sees a grand return to George Miller’s wasteland with “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” a prequel exploring the origin of Imperator Furiosa, first played by Charlize Theron in “Mad Max: Fury Road” and now has Anya Taylor-Joy in the role as we explore Furiosa’s journey from The Green Place of Many Mothers, to the clutches of a roving biker gang led by Dementus, and to Immortan Joe’s Citadel. However, “Furiosa” won’t be the end of the stories told within the “Mad Max” universe if Miller has any say in that.

Miller has revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he’s hopeful that his long-gestating idea for a third movie that developed alongside “Furiosa” 15 years ago when “Mad Max: Fury Road” was on hiatus with Miller and his creative team hashing out backstories for all their characters, will get made down the line as he’s keen if he gets the chance to do it. Confirming that Max is indeed lurking in the background during the events of “Furiosa” and he’ll have a minor cameo in the new film.

“In doing what we did in the preparation of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ we also wrote what happened to Max in the year before we encounter him in [that film],” Miller said of his third film idea taking place a year before the events of “Fury Road” and where we’d see the grizzled antihero. “And as we get towards the end of this movie, the chronology… Basically, we had to see that Mad Max was lurking around somewhere because we do know what happened. The writers know what happened to Mad Max in that year before, and we have a whole story of that, which I would like to do sometime if I get the chance.”

What exactly would a Mad Max prequel set a year before “Fury “Road” look like?

This isn’t the first time a prequel tie-in has been brought up as a comic book and video game (had featured Gastown) seemingly took some of these elements as we saw Max’s connections to Glory The Child, the phantom girl portrayed by Coco Jack Gillies that haunts Max during the events of “Fury Road,” and her mother, Hope. As those flashbacks would suggest, the fate of Hope and Glory doesn’t lead to a happy ending, alongside other potentially dead cohorts Max wasn’t able to save before redeeming himself in “Fury Road.”

Nothing says that Miller couldn’t attempt to incorporate a Furiosa B-story taking place elsewhere in the wasteland and opposite to what Max is up to, allowing Theron to reprise the role one more time.

“Furiosa” will speed into theaters on May 24 with a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and we’ll have to wait to see how many more adventures in the wasteland that Miller is willing to give us.

As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

SOURCE: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY