Timelines about the Mad Max saga: original trilogy & Fury Road

[Mutant 77]

Hello Marauders,


Enjoy my hard work if you want:

THE MAD MAX TIMELINE
http://madmaxtimeline.blogspot.com/


The original trilogy: "Mad Max" (1979), "Mad Max 2" (1981) aka "The Road Warrior" and "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985).

Of course, "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) is an alternate universe, so there's a standalone timeline only for it.

I think you will enjoy my timelines and articles, because they truly explain a lot about the two 'Maxes' and their worlds.


Thank you and... have a nice read!

 

[Fallen Angel]

Fury Road isn't alternative timeline. It's set after Road Warrior and before Beyond Thunderdome.

 

[Mutant 77]

Fury Road isn't alternative timeline. It's set after Road Warrior and before Beyond Thunderdome.

Miller, Hardy and Theron explicitly debunked that. And there are tons of discrepancies on-screen anyway.
Trust me. Read and you will understand

 

[Fallen Angel]

Did they? That's news to me when Miller said it was set between those movies.

 

[Mutant 77]

Did they? That's news to me when Miller said it was set between those movies.

Trust me, there are tons of interviews online. Actually, Miller said the movie (FR) is a "reimagining" and a slightly different universe. He was just playing with the timeline, claiming it would be placed inbetween virtual/alternate versions of the events depicted in RW and Thunderdome, not the actual ones that occurred on-screen.

On a side note:

Max II has no white streaks in the hair.
The car is the Pursuit Special which went destroyed in MM2, but in this new continuity it is intact.
The "present time" is 2060 - 45 years since our "present time" (2015).

 

[Octoberist]

Actually they explained the new Pursuit Special in the Fury Road prequels comic. Max was able to find another one and rebuilt the engine.

 

[Mutant 77]

Actually they explained the new Pursuit Special in the Fury Road prequels comic. Max was able to find another one and rebuilt the engine.

Comic books are not canon. I own them, of course. They are funny, but not canonical at all.
Plus, it's highly unlikely that you can rebuild a car like that in a post-apocalyptic world.

Don't forget that a skilled mechanic called "Barry" was the one to build that in the pre-apocalyptic world of "Mad Max" (1979) - original universe.

 

[Octoberist]

Well...touché.

But...can one can build a steampunk robot arm in a post-apoc desert world?

 

[Schlosser85]

You're not really meant to overthink stuff like that, lol.

 

[Octoberist]

Also just did a quick google search - there’s no official word wheater or not those DC prequel comics are canon. Nor does it matter.

 

[Mutant 77]

Well...touché.

But...can one can build a steampunk robot arm in a post-apoc desert world?

In the Fury Road alternate world, WW3 broke out after 2015. And it was a "progressive" war - talking about serious escalation. It wasn't a "flash in the night" or a "specific moment".

This means that they developed cybernetics like Furiosa's bionic arm in the following decade(s), when the war was still going on elsewhere (outside Australia).

Actually, if you'd read my FURY ROAD timeline, you'll discover it makes sense a lot.


Also, some new type of global weapon has been used during the apocalypse, because oceans totally vanished from Earth. Nukes can't do that.

You're not really meant to overthink stuff like that, lol.

'Mad Max' is sci-fi, not fantasy.

 

[Schlosser85]

I'm aware Mad Max is not fantasy

I'm also aware it's not strictly rooted in reality or pretending to be hard sci-fi.

And there's really no clear consensus on whether Fury Road is within the same canon or not, considering there's things that do (loosely) tie it in (Max's leg brace and the flashback of Toecutter's bulging eyes from the original movie when Max wakes up from a nightmare), and things that set it apart (characters' ages and various other things). And then the ambiguously canon prequel comics just muddy the waters further by trying to tie them together.

Hardy's Max is still an ex-cop; he says so in his opening voiceover narration. But the fact that he and Furiosa would seem to be in the same age range is a little confusing. Him being an ex-cop suggests he was alive, and not only alive but an adult, before civilization totally collapsed, while she was stolen as a child from her tribe (assumedly by Immortan Joe).

Their backstories seem to suggest different things about the state of the world in their youths, yet they look around the same age.

Unless that's a story point left over from back when Gibson would have still returned as an older Max, but it doesn't really make sense with Hardy given if anything he's younger than Theron.

 

[Spider-Fan]

See, I picture the series as being a loose fairy tale kind of. We see Max differently based on the perspective of those interacting with him. Fury Road doesn't use a narrator to tie it together like other installments, but I think the idea is the same as much of the film is seen through Furiosa's eyes. So, if there are continuity inconsistencies, I write them off as that Max was just not seen that way in this particular story.

 

[Mutant 77]

And there's really no clear consensus on whether Fury Road is within the same canon or not, considering there's things that do (loosely) tie it in (Max's leg brace and the flashback of Toecutter's bulging eyes from the original movie when Max wakes up from a nightmare), and things that set it apart (characters' ages and various other things).

I fixed all this in my timeline. The 2003's original Mel Gibson Mad Max 4 version has been heavily rearranged and remodelled by Miller in the following decade.
It was a very different movie, set to strictly follow the Thunderdome continuity as a proper sequel.

In the Fury Road alternate world, it was a progressive war/apocalypse, and Max Rockatansky II had enough time to grow up and become a cop despite the WW3 setting the world on fire. Then the last cities crumbled down and Max became a warrior in the Wasteland.

In "Fury Road", Max is 37 years old.

 

[TheVileOne]

Does the original film even talk about WWIII and the collapse of civilization? I don't recall a whole lot of world building for the dystopian future in the original.

I don't think it's important to fit Fury Road in between any of the films. I would just say don't treat it as a hard continuity like the other James Bond films.

 

[Schlosser85]

In the original civilization hasn’t collapsed yet, at least not entirely.

 

[Mutant 77]

Does the original film even talk about WWIII and the collapse of civilization? I don't recall a whole lot of world building for the dystopian future in the original.

I don't think it's important to fit Fury Road in between any of the films. I would just say don't treat it as a hard continuity like the other James Bond films.

"Mad Max" is pre-apocalypse. Fuel is overpriced, society is 100% corrupted, economy is down to its feet and people moved from small towns of the outback to big cities on the coast. They are on the verge to be annihilited anyway.

 

[Black Narcissus]

See, I picture the series as being a loose fairy tale kind of. We see Max differently based on the perspective of those interacting with him. Fury Road doesn't use a narrator to tie it together like other installments, but I think the idea is the same as much of the film is seen through Furiosa's eyes. So, if there are continuity inconsistencies, I write them off as that Max was just not seen that way in this particular story.

All of this.

Miller said Max is described different by each person that comes in contact with him, and there are many variations of what he looks like etc. Good way to get out of the Mel GIbson thing, and also to bring Mel Gibson back, but the audience aint ready for that. I would take an old af Mel Mad Max film of him still out there in the wild.

 

[TheVileOne]

I've read stuff like that on the Wikipedia entries, but there doesn't seem to be much in the movie that actually says or mentions. Then again, I haven't watched the original in a while, so there could be some things I'm forgetting.

Like in Road Warrior, they have that whole prologue setting up the state of the world.

 

[Neno_Kos]

I always take Mad Max Fury Road as it's own standalone off movie in franchise canon. It doesnt fit and still fits. There is nothing wrong with that. Doesnt make it worse or better.

 

[TheVileOne]

I think the fairy tale analogy makes sense. I don't look at it is a straight continuity like say the MCU films.

 

[Mutant 77]

I think the fairy tale analogy makes sense. I don't look at it is a straight continuity like say the MCU films.

In truth, "Mad Max", "Mad Max 2" and "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" have a pretty solid continuity. They feature the "evolution" of the same character and the "transformation" of the same world.

Even little details match.

I've read stuff like that on the Wikipedia entries, but there doesn't seem to be much in the movie that actually says or mentions. Then again, I haven't watched the original in a while, so there could be some things I'm forgetting.

Like in Road Warrior, they have that whole prologue setting up the state of the world.

In "Mad Max", much you see on-screen "suggests" the actual state of the world.

The prologue of RW describes the WW3 that occurred after "Mad Max".

 

[Mutant 77]

All of this.

Miller said Max is described different by each person that comes in contact with him, and there are many variations of what he looks like etc. Good way to get out of the Mel GIbson thing, and also to bring Mel Gibson back, but the audience aint ready for that. I would take an old af Mel Mad Max film of him still out there in the wild.

Since the Fury Road world is a parallel universe, Mel could pop up as a different character "resembling" the Original Max. Why not...

Said that, I think "Fury Road" should not get sequels.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Totally disagree. Fury Road should get sequels. All the sequels! That film was amazing. Road Warrior is my favorite of the series overall, but that is mostly for the story. Fury Road is technically far more impressive, and at the same time has a great story in its own right.

 

[TheVileOne]

Doesn't seem like there will be any sequels until Warner Bros. and Miller resolve their legal issue.