I don't know if that tweet is accurate... Speaking of the Mad man himself, Max and his beloved car, the Interceptor, make a humorously appropriate blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo in the film, which Miller says he had no choice but to include. "In doing what we did in the preparation of Mad Max: Fury Road, we also wrote what happened to Max in the year before we encounter him in [that film]," he explains. "And as we get towards the end of this movie, the chronology... Basically, we had to see that Mad Max was lurking around somewhere because we do know what happened. The writers know what happened to Mad Max in that year before, and we have a whole story of that, which I would like to do sometime if I get the chance." That doesn't sound like it's "in the works" to me.
I mean it says he wrote the story and wants to turn it into a screenplay. Don’t think there’s really a misinterpretation there unless you’re assuming “in the works” means it was greenlit or in development. If it’s being worked on with the plan to hopefully do something with it, it’s in the works lol
That's what I was assuming! That, and the idea that it's actively being developed. This reads more like they fleshed out the story of Max for the sake of Fury Road, and he's saying he'd like to get back to it one day.
I would think they would’ve just said it was in development if that was the case though. Furiosa was written before Fury Road, if I recall correctly, and if he was always trying to make it into a movie then I’d say Furiosa was always in the works too. I mean it’s just semantics, so definitely not saying you’re wrong. I just didn’t interpret it that way at all when I read it
But that’s like a slightly different gear, since the back half of Fury Road is pretty character driven. Fully believe it’s going to be great now!