Mad Max director George Miller is reportedly shopping a final Mad Max movie and TV show around Hollywood, before he plans to sell the beloved post-apocalyptic franchise off to the highest bidder, according to a new report.
The news arrives via Puck, which claims that the 81-year-old maestro of mayhem has been meeting major studios around Hollywood after Warner Bros – Mad Max's traditional home – turned down the opportunity to make both the movie and the show. Universal, Amazon and Sony are reported to be among the interested parties.
This isn't a huge surprise. While true that Warner Bros. has distributed all five Mad Max movies over the last 40+ years, 2024's Fury Road prequel Furiosa was something of a flop, earning just $174 million on a $168 million budget, meaning the studio Warner Bros likely lost over $100 million on the movie. This despite overwhelmingly positive reviews – back in 2024 our Furiosa review awarded the movie 4 stars, while it currently sits on 90% over at Rotten Tomatoes.
It's a safe bet that any 'final' Mad Max movie would be centered on Max Rockatansky, though the idea that Tom Hardy would reprise Max after the rocky production of Fury Road seems unlikely. A script, called The Wasteland, was written in conjunction with Fury Road and Furiosa, and is presumably the film Miller now hopes to make.
A Mad Max TV show has long been mooted. Miller even considered making a TV show set in the Wasteland during the decade-long development process of Fury Road, before he turned his attention to that modern action classic.
But it certainly sounds like Miller has an ambitious plan for his Mad Max swan song if reports are true. Miller, famously, owns the rights to Mad Max and clearly wants to put the pedal to the metal one final time before handing the beloved series over to a new custodian.
The future of Mad Max is uncertain, but you can read about all the movies hitting screens in the near future with our list of upcoming movies.
