Mad Max Wasteland Reworked as HBO Max Series Miller Producing

Reports are circulating that George Miller's long-planned Mad Max prequel The Wasteland is being reworked as a television series for Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming platform, HBO Max, according to the Mad Max Bible podcast and related reporting. The proposed series is said to be set roughly a year before the events of 2015's Mad Max Fury Road, would expand on Max Rockatansky's life in the wasteland, and may include familiar Furiosa characters, while Miller would serve as a producer rather than the director.

The Mad Max Bible report, which cited undisclosed inside sources, describes the series premise as Max taking on jobs across the Wasteland to scavenge parts to rebuild a new Interceptor. The account says characters from Furiosa such as Chumbucket and Scabrous Scrotus would appear and that figures glimpsed in Max's early flashbacks in Fury Road would be central to the episodic narrative. The podcast and subsequent reports also name Nitram screenwriter Shaun Grant as a writer attached to the project. Those reports suggested the series could be an HBO Max exclusive, though no studio confirmation has been made public.

The Wasteland has a long, complicated history. Miller first...