Even if the film says or hints otherwise. This is why I think Mad Max Fury Road is set in the far far future. Now we could say that Mad Max Fury Road is set in an alternate universe, but how many alternate universes have the Hummer, Skyline and all other vehicles we see in Mad Max Fury Road? Very few, if any. On top of that, everything has to rust, decay and turn in to the world we see in Mad Max Fury Road, right? I think that would take another, at least 25 years. And it doesn't look like the world is going to shit for the next 40-50 years or so, judging by our oil reserves. Plus, the world hasn't gone to shit yet (well, it has, but differently) as of 2015. People now in 2015 aren't even doing so, the Skyline is a classic and will be so for a long long time. And here's why:īasically, judging by the newer cars, the Hummer and the Skyline, both released in 1996 (correct?) ( IF where the last vehicles to release in tbe Mad Max Fury Road world), very few people would treat them like shit and convert them to the vehicles we see in Mad Max Fury Road immediately/recently after release. u/bestpaperplaneever and /u/jonnichols (if interested), I was thinking, Mad Max Fury Road has to be atleast about 175-200 years after the release of the Hummer and Skyline. That way, MM1 would still be set "a few" (<10?) years from now and the onset of societal collapse in 1979 would explain the lack of more modern cars in MM1 Alternatively, they might have been an intentional community that existed before the onset of the collapse, i.e., before the world of Mad Max diverged significantly from our own.Īlternatively, we could posit the beginning of societal collapse and formation of the Vuvalini to be in 1979, Furiosa's abduction in 1983, Mad Max in 1988, Mad Max 2 in 1990, Mad Max 3 in 1994 and Fury Road in 2002. However, it seems that the Vuvalini of Many Mothers were a society formed during the period of societal collapse. This timeline would explain why we don't see any cars from the 80s, 90s or 00s. 7000 days after Furiosa's abduction, the events of Mad Max Fury Road unfold, assuming the age difference of Tom Hardy in 2015 and Mel Gibson in 1985 is equal to Max' difference in age between the last two films. Max finds another Ford Falcon XB Coupé Pursuit Special 1998. The year Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome is set in, under the same assumption. Mad Max 2 happens, assuming Max aged as much as Mel Gibson did. Toyota changes its logo (which happened in 1989 in the real world. The studio probably also expects to revisit Theron’s character and The Citadel in order to cash in on the thing people really liked the most about Fury Road.1979. It doesn’t seem like that’s enough goodwill to immediately greenlight a sequel, though. Of course, that’s not Minions money, but also I don’t want to stab my eyes out every time I see a Mad Max meme on my news feed. Fury Road earned almost $370 million worldwide, on a $150 million budget, which sounds pretty tremendous.
is still on the fence about whether there will even be a fifth film. The more upsetting news is that Warner Bros. Sure, there have been the same actors appearing more than once - like Hugh Keays-Byrne playing two different villains in two different movies - but I didn’t expect, nor did I think anyone else would, that people from Fury Road would be reappearing in a fifth Mad Max film. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the first couple of Mad Max films, but, from what I can remember, none of the characters except Max are recurring. Currently, though, it doesn’t look like she’s being included in Mad Max: The Wasteland. Director George Miller has said in the past that he has written a standalone Furiosa story, so it’s entirely possible for Theron to be signed for her own spin-off franchise down the road. Tom Hardy claims to be signed for three more films. In an interview with USA Today about her latest film, Imperator Furiosa herself had no idea what Mad Max: The Wasteland was and is definitely not signed up yet to be in it.