5 Sequels That Came Out 20 Years Later (And Were Actually Worth The Wait)

The Previous Movie: Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

The Belated Sequel: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

The Gap: 30 years

Unlike the other films on this list, it's through pure accident and series of set-backs that led to the fourth Mad Max film taking so long to materialise, although had it been done quicker it's unlikely to have been quite so good.

George Miller had been trying to get a new Road Warrior film since 1995, and the idea that would become Fury Road began to form properly a few years later. The original plan was to shoot it with Mel Gibson in the early-naughties, but after that fell through the project languished in development hell while Miller picked up an Oscar for his work on Happy Feet. Things eventually picked up speed in 2010 when Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron signed on, but even that was five years before release; as it was such an effects heavy film, Mad Max 4 wasn't shot until 2012, and the complex practical and CGI melding only furthered the whole thing.

In the end, Mad Max: Fury Road came out almost exactly thirty years after Beyond Thunderdome, but this protracted development was all worth it; the story, the designs and the effects were all the best you could hope for; Fury Road is an action classic, with no "but".