Now this – assuming he sticks to his guns on the subject – is sorry news. George Miller has said that he doesn't plan to make any more Mad Max movies.
It's a surprising announcement, given that he's talked up plans for sequels while out promoting Fury Road. But it seems the grueling schedule of that movie has left him unwilling to make such a commitment again. “I won’t make more Mad Max movies," he said at the Golden Globes. "Fury Road was forever getting completed. If you finish one in a year, it’s considered a leap of faith. Start, stop, start again. I’ve shot in Australia in a field of wild flowers and flat red earth when it rained heavily forever. We had to wait 18 months and every return to the US was 27 hours. Those films take forever. I won’t do those anymore.”
We'd point out that A) this comes from American gossip interview site Page Six, B) Miller could very well change his mind once he's had some distance from Fury Road (and possibly made a smaller, less exhausting film next) and C) this doesn't preclude him producing future installments while handing over the wheel to other filmmakers. Still, we'd be sorry not to see another visit to the wasteland from the man who started the journey himself.
For those needing more Miller, we recommend listening to the Mad Max: Fury Road special of the Empire Podcast, which you can find below.