You may have seen our post last week of Mad Max lead man Tom Hardy talking about George Miller’s return to Fury Road, scheduled to start filming later this year?

Well, there’s a story going around tonight that director George Miller is making two Mad Max films back to back and looking back on Hardy’s answers this rumour could have legs.

Among talk of his training and his version of the Mad Max character Hardy dropped a few hints,

We’re shooting for a year…

the he clarified,

[We’re] shooting for probably nine months. The training period is allocated as two months, technically. We don’t know whether it’s going to push a little bit or come up a little bit, we’re in sort of a gray area. There’s various anomalies and shifting papers. All kinds of people’s schedules, from what I’m aware, need to be tied down.

For more of this talk do check out Alex Billington’s write up here.

The first thing that pops out is the whole nine months shooting – maybe Hardy included the training schedule in here, but it’s hard to say. The story claims that the second movie will have the name Furiosa, which sounds unlikely to inspire the masses but who knows?

Nine months does seem like a long time to shoot for, and Twitch have their sources and two Mad Max films shot together could account for Hardy’s words, but clarification will be sought.

Maybe the extra time will leave space in Mel Gibson’s schedule for a cameo? Maybe not.