The longest tale is that of Max himself, skimming over events from the previous movies before moving him from the Thunderdome to the road. The background stories of some characters like Nux and Immortan Joe only require a brief telling, while that of Furiosa is incorporated into the bigger story of Immortan Joe’s wives.
This material was only used to build characters on set, but eventually Miller took storyboard artist Mark Sexton up on his suggestion that there be a Mad Max comic, and this preparatory material was the ideal content. When the actors were cast he was able to explain to them how their characters had arrived at the point where Fury Road began. When he eventually began filming in 2013 he not only knew where all the major protagonists were going, but also where they’d come from. While delay followed delay, Miller had plenty of time to consider the backstory for Fury Road while working on other projects. He completed the storyboards in 2001, but raising the money to make the movie was difficult. A decade on from his third and most ambitious Mad Max film Beyond the Thunderdome, George Miller began thinking about a fourth.
