Mad Max creator George Miller “often thinks” about what happens to Furiosa after Fury Road

In 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road introduced the world to the Imperator Furiosa, a seriously ass-kicking addition to George Miller’s Mad World who upstaged Max in his own movie. 

Now the Wasteland Warrior has taken the wheel for her own Mad Max Saga. Furiosa sees Anya Taylor-Joy and Alyla Browne step into Charlize Theron’s skull-crusher boots, chronicling some 16 years in the character’s traumatic life, from her abduction at the age of 10 to her ascent through the ranks of the Immortan Joe’s army. But as Miller hints when we meet in London ahead of the film’s UK premiere, the road may not end there. 

“I’ve often speculated when we see Furiosa go up to the Citadel on that platform at the very end [of Fury Road] and nod goodbye to Max who wanders to the Wasteland… I often think: ‘What does she do, sitting up at the top of the dominant hierarchy? Does she fall into the trap that most revolutionaries do? You know, yesterday’s hero becomes tomorrow’s tyrant, which is classic in storytelling.'”

While Miller’s mind may one day turn to the future, he has no intention of going any further back into Furiosa’s childhood in the thriving Green Place, noting that Furiosa and Fury Road together tell one epic story.