Everything was going well for the "Mad Max" franchise, especially with Australian director George Miller happily talking about his plans for the sequel.
The Golden Globes' snub of "Mad Max: Fury Road" might have something to do with his sudden change of heart, but Miller insists during his interview with Page Six that the time element involved in making the film is what really pushed him over to the edge.
"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.
"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.
What would happen now to the plans Miller had for the franchise? At first, reports have it that the sequel will be entitled "Mad Max: Wasteland," but then Miller slammed it down.
"The more I speculate about what's happening, the more I try to avoid spoilers this far out, and also I find myself talking around in circles. So the best thing I can say is that we're definitely in discussion about making more of these, but the timing of it, I'm really not sure. Probably won't be called 'Wasteland.' I can say that. It was just the working title we gave it," he revealed during an interview with Deadline.
Another thing that Miller discussed was the fact that the original Mad Max actor Mel Gibson will not be a part of any of the sequels alongside Tom Hardy.
"Not in these movies, for a very simple reason. If Mel, who is Max in a lot of people's memories, appeared in the next movie, it would pull audiences out of the movie for a bit, and we worked so hard to keep people immersed in the movie as much as possible," he explained. "It would be like, I don't know, seeing Roger Moore appearing in a Daniel Craig 'James Bond' movie. It would be fun, but it would also pull you out of the experience of the movie."
The fate of Charlize Theron's Furiosa also hangs in the balance, and Miller was unsure how she would fit in the sequels.
