Furiosa, the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, has a fuzzy place in a confusing timeline. But writer-director George Miller says not to worry about it.
Continuity in the Mad Max movie series is pretty confusing. It might be hard to believe, but the 40-year-old franchise spawned from a micro-budget Australian movie about raiders in a post-apocalyptic wasteland doesn’t actually have the most coherent timeline. Furiosa, the full-speed-ahead latest film in the series, doesn’t clear anything up, although it does have a specific timeline connection to its predecessor, Mad Max: Fury Road. But we’ll do our best to help you understand it.
The first important thing to remember about Mad Max’s timeline is that it kind-of-sort-of got rebooted. Fury Road, the fourth installment in the series, was originally planned for production in the ’90s or early 2000s, with Mel Gibson returning to his central role as roving loner Max . However, after numerous delays, and numerous instances of Mel Gibson being a horrible person in public, the movie got an updated script and a new Max — the much younger Tom Hardy.
