George Miller Says He Won't Direct Any More Mad Max Movies

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Veering off the fury road, director George Miller has said he won’t helm another Mad Max movie.

In surprise new, the director was reported to have said at the Golden Globes that, despite talking up sequel ideas during the promotion for Mad Max: Fury Road such as The Wasteland, he won’t embark on another gruelling Mad Max film.

“Fury Road was forever getting completed,” he said. “If you finish one in a year, it’s considered a leap of faith. Start, stop, start again. 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 films take forever. I won’t do those anymore.”

Now, before you howl into the desert sky at this ‘mediocre’ news – a couple of points. One, this comes from gossip site Page Six so take it with an entire salt mine rather than the customary pinch, two, he could very well change his mind, and three, this doesn’t mean he won’t still be involved in producing any further instalments.

Still, it would be a shame if the great man didn’t turn the engine over and head out into the Wasteland one more time…

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