"Mad Max: Fury Road" helmer has two scripts ready for sequel

PanARMENIAN.Net - It's no surprise that a sequel to this summer's most critically-acclaimed blockbuster, Mad Max: Fury Road, is on its way. But it turns out director George Miller has two scripts to choose from, Digital Spy said.

Speaking to Top Gear, Miller explained that because of Fury Road's difficult journey to the big screen, there'd been a lot of time to get some writing done, resulting in these two spare scripts.

"This film [Fury Road] was green lit three times and fell over three times over a decade," Miller said.

"We went to shoot with Mel Gibson back in 2001, but then 9/11 happened, and the American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar close to 30%, so we lost that amount of budget overnight."

"We were then rained out of Australia," Miller added. "The desert rained for the first time in 15 years, and we ended up in South West Africa, Namibia."

"But in this process, we had dug down deep into the backstory, not only of the characters, but of every vehicle. How the steering wheels became religious artefacts and things like that."

"So we ended up with two scripts, without really trying," he went on. "We're talking to the studio [Warner Bros] about it as we speak, but which one of the two stories will happen next, I'm not so sure."

Whichever script Miller picks, chances are it'll be called Mad Max: The Wasteland, and will no doubt blow out tiny collective minds, Digital Spy said.

But before Miller gets on with another Mad Max movie, he'll do something a little quieter, as he revealed to Digital Spy last week.

"I hope the next film I make is a very small film without any special effects and not many stunts," he said.