After five movies, the Mad Max franchise may take a trip to the glorious land of television.
A new video from Mad Max Bible alleges an HBO Max show will be the final franchise project for creator George Miller, and may in fact be the long-awaited third of his desired trilogy: The Wasteland, set a year before 2015’s Fury Road. Miller has been open about wanting to tell Max and Furiosa’s stories across three films, with the final one once again putting Tom Hardy in the role as brooding post-apocalyptic hero. Things seemed to hinge on the success of Furiosa back in 2024, and once it turned out a box-office disappointment, it seemed like it wouldn’t happen.
But according to this Bible episode, this supposed episodic series will have Nitram writer Shaun Grant wrap up the story Miller intended to tell. Bible further noted Miller’s attempted to bring The Wasteland to life multiple times since ’80s, first a show, then as a video game. Miller first mentioned the game in 2008, and it was to be a collaboration between him and God of War director Cory Barlog, who’d left Sony Santa Monica at that time. That game fell apart, and Barlog became a consultant for what would eventually become the Max game developed by Avalanche Software that released in 2015, and which Miller isn’t too fond of.
That Mad Max could go to TV isn’t too surprising to hear: Warner Bros. already has shows for Dune and It, and one for The Conjuring in the works. The post-apocalypse is one sci-fi genre it doesn’t have a show for, and a decent-sized name like Max’s would draw in some viewers. If it’s actually happening, we’ll likely learn more about it in the months (or years) to come.
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