Jamie Lovett is a graduate of MTSU’s Journalism program who followed his lifelong passion for comics and related media into a career writing about pop culture. He has over a decade of experience writing about television, movies, comics, video games, and more, and recently co-founded the comics-focused newsletter/site Weird City Media.
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George Miller has big plans for Mad Max before he says goodbye to the franchise forever. A new report from Puck suggests that Miller and Warner Bros. Pictures, distributor of the previous Mad Max movies, have parted ways, with Miller now shopping around his next Mad Max movie, Mad Max: The Wasteland.
But that’s not all. Miller reportedly also hopes to develop a Mad Max television show to flesh out the post-apocalyptic universe he created. After completing those two projects, Miller apparently plans to sell the rights to the property, having completed his own story.
George Miller Pushes Forward With Mad Max: The Wasteland
Some might wonder why Warner Bros. Pictures would be willing to part with such a long-running and critically acclaimed franchise as Mad Max. Well, the truth is, despite their popularity with a certain set of movie fans, the recent Mad Max movies haven’t been big money makers.
Mad Max: Fury Road did okay at the box office in 2015, but only after a long, grueling, and tumultuous filming experience. It made $380 million at the global box office. Warner Bros. greenlit the spinoff Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in hopes that the buzz generated by Fury Road and the specific popularity of the Imperator Furiosa character, would generate a better box office haul. Instead, the spinoff lost the studio a lot of money when it debuted in 2024, making barely more than its $168 million budget.
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