Where does Furiosa fit into the Mad Max timeline? George Miller’s opinion:

The continuity in the Mad Max film series is pretty confusing. It may be hard to believe, but the 40-year-old franchise that grew out of a micro-budget Australian film about robbers in a post-apocalyptic wasteland doesn’t have the most coherent timeline. Angrythe latest film in the series, which runs at full speed ahead, clears up nothing, although it does have a specific temporal connection to its predecessor. Mad Max: Fury Road. But we will do our best to make it easier for you to understand.

The first thing to remember Mad Max Timeline is that it has been rebooted, so to speak. Fury Roadthe fourth installment in the series, was originally planned for production in the ’90s or early 2000s, with Mel Gibson returning to his starring role as the wandering loner Max. After numerous delays and numerous cases from Mel Gibson be a terrible person in public

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With the change of actors and Max’s apparent age, the series also had to be changed slightly. Fury Road essentially takes place in a different timeline than the original films, in which important events take place at slightly different times. In Fury RoadIn the 2011 timeline, the nuclear annihilation of large portions of humanity occurred between the events of Crazy Max And The Road Warriorand not afterwards The Road Warrior, as they do in the original trilogy.

Against this background, this feels particularly confusing AngryThe first trailer states that the film takes place 45 years after The Collapse. Technically, this means that the film probably takes place a little less than 45 years after the events The Road Warrior

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But if you try to reconcile this math with either the events of the original Mad Max trilogy or with Fury RoadLet me give you some helpful advice: Don’t do it. It probably doesn’t make sense. In fact, the Comic books that have appeared since then Fury Road tried to fit the timeline back into the original trilogy and never came close to achieving that success.

And guess what? That’s OK.

Mad Max Director, author and creator George Miller, in his infinite wisdom, has released “ Fury Road that Max may be an idea bigger than petty grievances like canon and continuity. Max is a myth and a legend, and as Miller himself said, everything that happens to him is just “an episode” in a turbulent life, with no particular context required. As he put it in a press conference for Fury Road

All films do not have a strict chronology. The film probably takes place after Thunderdome, but it is an episode in the life of Max and this world. It’s basically an episode, and we revisit this world. I never wrote the story any of stories, with chronological context.

Angry is no different, and the first trailer said that in the first few seconds. That is it Odyssey. She is destined to become a myth, and myths are too important to worry about how the details fit together exactly. We know this is a prequel because it is about her childhood and young adult life; we know it covers 15 years of her life because in the film itself she tells us that 15 years have passed since we first saw her on screen. But in terms of exactly how much time passes between the end of Angry and the beginning of Fury Road… Miller doesn’t care about that, and we don’t have to either.