Speaking with Deadline, Miller just whets our appetites by saying ‘Wasteland’ is coming up right after “Three Thousand Years of Longing”: “I’m not done with the Mad Max story and I think you have to be a multitasker, and there’s certainly another Mad Max coming down the pike after this,” Miller said. “We’re in preparation on that as well. It’s an interesting question, the idea of multitasking. I discuss this with other filmmakers and I think what happens to me is that when you’re working on one thing, and you get so distracted and focused on that one thing, it’s like a creative holiday to focus on the other one for a bit. It helps you achieve that objectivity, to look at the thing afresh each time and say, I thought I was doing this, but it doesn’t seem to be the case now.” Miller was apparently in pre-production on “Mad Max: the Wasteland” and even had Tom Hardy signed up to do two more films. That is until Miller sued his studio Warner Bros. for not paying him a bonus that was contractually obligated by contract. Producer Kennedy Miller Mitchell and the director claim that the WB owed a lot of money to Miller’s production company, specifically $7 million for coming in under budget during the production. The WB claimed they actually went over budget. The problem is reshoots cost $31 million. However, Miller’s production company says the deal was to not include these costs in the cost of the film, thus the claim of going under-budget. Speaking of chicken, Miller himself ain’t no spring chicken, he’s 73-years-old, the further ‘Wasteland’ is delayed the more unlikely he would have the stamina and willingness to embark on making a “Mad Max” sequel, which, by all accounts, is a grueling experience. The amount of detail to have to put into these movies is not like, say, John Huston, in his final years, directing a chamber piece via wheelchair as he did with “Prizzi’s Honor” and “The Dead.”

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