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Q: Are they going to make another Mad Max movie? I had hoped the last one was a revival of the franchise and not just a one-off.

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

Well, it's time to get cautiously excited then. Based on unattributed "whispers," work is finally beginning on a sequel to the 2015 smash hit "Mad Max: Fury Road," which itself was a sequel to the three Max Max movies of the late '70s and '80s.

The "whispers" were spoken to Erik Davis, managing editor of movie-biz magazine Fandango, so we can take them a little more seriously than the average rumor.

"I'm hearing whispers of another sequel that's beginning to rev its engines," he wrote on Twitter, posting it along with a photo from "Fury Road."

The "rev its engines" thing is a reference to the fact that these are very much car movies (the titular "Mad" Max Rockatansky is a brilliant driver in a world where gasoline is a scarce and precious commodity), but it's also a reference to the fact that a "Fury Road" sequel was first suggested years ago but never went anywhere.

Director/writer George Miller said while making "Fury Road" that he had already written two sequel scripts, and not long after "Fury Road" was released, he announced that he was going ahead with one of them, titled "The Wasteland." However, in 2017 he got into a financial dispute with Warner Bros., which put the sequel on hold. Nothing had been heard again until the "whispers" earlier this year.

Earlier I said you should be "cautiously" excited, and that's because these are still rumors, and because if they do prove true it will still be a while yet.

 

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