Why Furiosa Just Flopped

8. Waiting Too Long After Fury Road

Movie studios and filmmakers need to strike when the iron is hot where hits are concerned. 

Audiences have notoriously short memories and absence generally doesn't make the heart grow fonder - instead, it makes viewers more likely to approach a belated sequel or prequel with considerable skepticism. 

And so, waiting nine years to release a follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road was definitely a huge mistake. Granted, George Miller's lawsuit against Warner Bros. for unpaid Fury Road earnings left Furiosa in legal limbo for four years alone, but given the critical, awards, and fan response to that film, it shouldn't have taken almost an entire decade to produce the next one. 

By this point, Fury Road's cultural cachet has faded somewhat, and as so many belated follow-ups have proven over the years, if you leave people waiting long enough, it doesn't matter how great the original movie is. 

While a Fury Road prequel would've admittedly been a tricky sell at any point in time, it ideally should've been out less than five years later.