![]() In fact, Miller stated with the 30-year gap since the last film and a new actor playing the lead, it was just easier to do a new version of the film without maintaining any continuity. They just happen to be both named Max Rockatansky. On the other hand, Charlize Theron also said that Hardy wasn't playing Mel Gibson's character. That's not to say that it's not picking up or leaving off from the Mad Max you know already, but it's a nice re-take on the entire world using the same character, depositing him in the same world but bringing him up to date by 30 years. It's a relaunch and revisit to the world. Tom Hardy also spoke on this issue by saying, We have to take it differently as George is taking it. Max having his Interceptor, and being much more feral, implies that Fury Road is more of a reboot than a direct sequel to the original trilogy. So even though Miller made the movies to work as standalone movies, he also made sure they connected and fit together too. ![]() One of Max's pupils is also fully dilated from his eye injury in the second movie when his car flipped over. In Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Max no longer has the interceptor (after it was destroyed in Road Warrior) and fuel has completely vanished, leaving Max pulling his new vehicle with camels and Bartertown using pig manure as a substitute. Mel Gibson's Max still has the interceptor from the first movie, as well as a bandaged knee and leg brace from his gunshot wound at the end of the original. In The Road Warrior for instance, the Feral Kid narrates Max's story from the first movie about how he lost his wife and child as a cop and then drifted off into the wasteland. Despite this, Miller did maintain consistency throughout the original three movies. In SXSW, George Miller also claimed that the previous three films exist in no real clear chronology, because they were always conceived as different films. Miller claimed that after the first Mad Max film he doesn't really see a continuity or set time frame between the films, although he would think of Fury Road as taking place after Thunderdome. However, George Miller refuses to call the film either a sequel or a reboot and simply calls the film a "revisiting".
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