Sequel Or Reboot...Which Were You Hoping For???

[scfc68]

I was wondering what the majority of fans were looking for more?

Personally, I would have preferred a straight sequel but it looks like the scale and more futuristic approach prohibit this according to Miller himself.

I guess with the original trilogy we have all invested emotionally in the story and I was hoping that Hardy's Max would be the same character as Gibson's with a direct link to the originals.

It seems that this movie is sort of fitting into both camps in perhaps the same way as the Daniel Craig Bond movies which have rebooted the JB franchise starting with Bond's early adventures.. and yet the same M (as played by Judi Dench) as in the Brosnan movies.

Its a bit like Prometheus and JJ Abrams Trek series which although prequels, they have had to show set designs and depictions of technology way contrasting with the original movies & tv series.

Any thoughts??

[DGSimo]

I didn't care either way, I guess I was hoping it would be it's own thing with nods to the other films but not tied to or held back by them especially when someone else took over as Max.

My main reason, and perhaps a goofy one, I was hoping for that was because I really wanted to see a Max behind the wheel of the BoB in an epic chase across the Wasteland. See, I never got to see any of the Mad Max movies on the big screen and my first exposure to the films was when I was 5 years old when my parents were watching it on TV and the imagery just stuck with me. Seeing the hero in a black getup and shoulder armor, the Gyro captain and all the other weird wonderful stuff and then this beast of a car with "the engine sticking out" that the hero drove! It blew my little mind and drove my imagination and I saw Thunderdome following that a year or 2 later.

If FR had been a sequel I probably would of never get to see that wish of the V8 roaring back to life in 2015.

[Mad Max RW]

I was always hoping Fury Road (the current version, not talking about when Mel was still attached) would be its own thing, not unlike Nolan's Batman trilogy. Since George Miller basically confirmed it in his own words I'm hoping what we finally get doesn't suck.

[Nightwalker]

As a reboot, I think not. Than it's supposed to start with the glory days of Max as a highway patrolman.
I was more thinking of a sequel following MM3. But considering they brought back the 'BoB' (or something similar), to have MM4 set between MM1 and RW would be very plausible.
But in that case he would have left the BoB somewhere to ride with Furiosa and get back afterwards to regain his Interceptor.
Or it is a complete separate story that has nothing to do with the time line of the original franchise.

[Bad cop]

All the buzz surrounding the screening and the new information surrounding it has my rejuvenated my anticipation for the film! I CANNOT WAIT!!!

The debate of whether the film is a remake/reboot or a sequel has been kicked around quite a bit, and despite Miller's statements that it does not fit within the original timeline, I have chosen to interpret otherwise. While the idea of it not fitting in with the original timeline doesn't sit well with me, there is just so much consistency with the established mythos that to call it a remake/reboot doesn't make sense. While it also may be meant to be seen as a stand-alone MM film with the established mythos, I have, again, chosen to interpret it as a sequel. Plus any inconsistencies can be solved easily if one subscribes to the theory of it being told from the perspective of someone else, just as 2 and 3 were.

Either way, I am super excited!!!

[scfc68]

I think the movie has had to fall out of sync to accommodate the Interceptor. There would be no way to bring it back if set after Thunderdome or even after Road Warrior. And to set it between MM1 & MM2 would mean Miller having to tone down his current post apocalyptic vision. Really it should have never been destroyed in MM2 Would have been better stolen and recovered years later in Thunderdome - just imagine the chase at the end with the interceptor AND the train....

[pauli77]

This may be an unusual opinion but I'd have preferred to see a reboot or a film more closely based on MM1.

I'd love to see more of the world of Mad Max 1. It was such an intense and frightening world that there is so much more I wanted to see and reading some of the background about the idea of "transcontinental highways" and other road gangs, I'd quite liked to have seen the formation of the MFP.

Or, and this may be blasphemy but I'd quite liked them to have used a different young police officer that they could give a different backstory that would allow us to explore that world. I'm sure there are many other interesting character types that could have been used and motivations for why he did what he did, as we all know, "we've all lost someone we love". You can assume that some form of MFP continued to function after Max left or there are equally tragic events that befell MFP officers before Max's incident. If you did this, you could have easily referenced the movies in order to satisfy fans, you could use many of the things which made those films so impactful and yet you could explore other aspects of the world with a slightly increased budget (unlike the $100 million dollars they've spent).

[seriz]

Or it is a complete separate story that has nothing to do with the time line of the original franchise.

The last sentence seems correct. We tried, in vain, to imagine every possibily to see Fury Road as a sequel, but definitely, it's a reboot ! Diffent actor, different timeline, different universe, different story... If this is not a reboot, what's a reboot ?

[Taipan]

Honestly, I would prefer Fury Road to be a direct sequel to MMBT. Just to see the further decay of that universe to the point where people still remember the 'old world' but don't understand it anymore. I've always thought the best thing about Mad Max movies was their connection to what we consider reality and how it gradually evolved into what we've seen on the screen. But I guess there wouldn't be much left of the old world if Fury Road was a sequel to MMBT so it could easily wander into pure fantasy without any connection to the original movies.

Alternatively it'd be the best to put Fury Road sometime after MM2 but before MMBT. That way we would get to see the immediate effects of the nuclear war and that opens up a couple of possibilities for character direction (you know, people going from scavanging and trying to rebuild into complete despair). Also the complete lack of fuel would create an interesting dynamic where anyone with any gasoline would become the most powerful out in the wastelands and I'm not talking the amounts of fuel that the Compound had or Humungus was burning through.

In a way it's good for Fury Road to be a reboot because the questions I mentioned were answered already. MMBT basically ends on a high note, the society rebuilds. And what happened in between MM2 and MMBT has been answered in MMBT.
From that point of view you can totally understand why Miller decided for Fury Road to be a reboot, amongst other reasons.

[themanw/oaname]

It looks at this point calling it a re-imagining but the production team denying it's a reboot conflicts with everything.

Since no one can get their story straight I'll look at it like every other one in the series; as it's told by another character in the story like Rashomon. Making it in the timeline and with much more depth because it's told by different people interpreting a legendary character in a difficult world.

I swear that is absolutely the best fan theory I've ever stumbled upon.