A lot of "Mad Max: Fury Road" fans got upset yesterday when news came out that director George Miller won't be directing its sequels anymore.
"I won't make more 'Mad Max' movies. 'Fury Road' with Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Riley Keough was forever getting completed. If you finish one in a year, it's considered a leap of faith. Start, stop, start again," he shared during an interview with Page Six.
"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 'Mad Maxes' take forever. I won't do those anymore," Miller added.
But now, it looks like the report is untrue because Miller insists that he is still the director in charge of the sequels.
"That was a completely garbled interview. I was in New York and it was so noisy and the journalist was asking me questions on a red carpet at the National Board of Review...She completely got the wrong fragments of information that were just not true. I said no, [another 'Mad Max' movie] will not be next, and she took that to mean I never wanted to make another 'Mad Max.' It won't necessarily be next, but I have two more stories," he confirmed with The Wrap.
The movie actually earned him first Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and Miller is quite excited about it. Previously, he won an Oscar for producing the animated feature "Happy Feet." He was also nominated for writing "Lorenzo's Oil" and "Babe." The latter film also gave him a Best Picture nomination as a producer.
"Mad Max: Fury Road" resonated well with movie critics, and it grossed $375 million worldwide on a reported production budget of $150 million.
One of the characters who was raved about by fans was Charlize Theron's Furiosa, and even though he is unsure whether or not she will be included in the sequel, he had to admit that she is "a pretty compelling character," adding that it would be "great to tell her story."
"Her backstory is really interesting," he told Entertainment Weekly. "We only allude to it in this movie because this movie is on the run; people don't have much time for recreational talk. But you pick up, you have a sense of her having gone through stuff. That's what the film is trying to do. You're trying to put a lot of iceberg under the tip, I like saying."
