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

7. It's A Prequel...Sort Of

Ah yes, that aforementioned thing about continuity. See, the original trilogy of Mad Max films had a very loose continuity, which meant you could probably watch any one of the given films and not really be lost. That's how come the second film could be released as The Road Warrior in the US, and not as Mad Max 2, and nobody was really confused. Except the people who'd seen the first Mad Max and thought this was all very familiar. And let's not even get started on the people who wondered what the €œBeyond€ before Thunderdome was supposed to imply. Is this is a sequel or...? Fury Road has that peculiarly 21st century quandry of being a instalment in a franchise which hasn't had a film in a good couple of decades, necessitating the re-casting of its principal character and George Miller trying to figure out a way to make another Mad Max that isn't a sequel. After all, even in Beyond Thunderdome Mel Gibson's Max was getting on a bit. The fact that he looked so worn and battered by the previous two films actually played into the plot to a degree. From the looks of it Fury Road will be a €œsidequel€, one of those portmanteaus that doesn't really work but is the only way to accurately encapsulate another of Hollywood's dastardly inventions. It's not a prequel, nor a sequel, but appears to take place somewhere in between the first two films. Max has already left the skeleton crew of a police force trying to maintain order in the post-apocalypse, but hasn't quite become the badass loner Road Warrior yet.