Mad Max: Fury Road Trailer Breakdown - 10 Things You Need To See

9. We're Almost Out Of Water

Then there's the other main €œfuel€ for the wandering, insane scavengers in Mad Max: Fury Road €“ and probably for the desperate look that Max has plastered over his sand-flecked face all the way through the trailer €“ according to that same opening montage of news reports is that shortage of water. Wait, what? How did we run out of water? Was that ever an issue in the original Mad Max? You're probably thinking of Waterworld. The only thing grosser than Kevin Costner's gills were how they got drinking water... Anyway, dropping that bombshell in amongst all the stuff about oil is a pretty definitive sign that this isn't your daddy's Mad Max. Miller isn't afraid to shake things up this time around, as the changes to the casting of certain integral characters to the franchise and the place that Fury Road comes in the loose timeline of The Road Warrior continuity will attest to. Looks like there's going to be be some big changes, too, with the exact liquid that everybody is killing each other over. Obviously the oil thing is going to play into it to a degree (how is everyone going to power their personal death vehicles otherwise?), but it's interesting €“ and no less political €“ to take the angle of the world running out of water, too. Figuratively mankind is doomed once all the fossil fuels have been burnt, but an even more immediate death comes from dehydration. Looks like the stakes are even higher in Fury Road.