This means that Furiosa’s story will most likely take place alongside the action of The Road Warrior or shortly before the sequel’s story. In contrast, Max and Furiosa were both alive and in their early adulthood when “ the world fell.” As such, Beyond Thunderdome takes place at least a decade or so after this cataclysmic event, where Furiosa’s synopsis explicitly states that the sequel will take place as the world of the franchise falls apart. In Beyond Thunderdome, Max encounters Aunt Entity’s makeshift city where there are children who were born after the world ended. The other, more important reason that Mad Max’s third outing Beyond Thunderdome likely takes place before Furiosa is more closely linked to the sequel’s setting. Alternatively, Beyond Thunderdome could take place shortly before Fury Road (provided Max got a haircut between movies), but not long before, meaning Furiosa wouldn't have been as young as the synopsis implies. As such, Fury Road could take place just before or shortly after Beyond Thunderdome, but there aren't decades in the difference. For one thing, Max is visibly older in Beyond Thunderdome and, as noted above, he and Furiosa look around the same age in Fury Road.

It seems unlikely that Furiosa will take place at the same time as Beyond Thunderdome for numerous reasons. However, there are other factors at play that make a precise determination of Furiosa's place in the Mad Max timeline difficult. From this alone, viewers can roughly work out where the spinoff’s story will most likely land in the larger timeline of the franchise (presuming that the Mad Max movies take place in the order they were released), with a likely positioning between the original Mad Max and The Road Warrior. What is clear is that, since it is a prequel, Furiosa will take place before Fury Road’s story right at the start of Mad Max's post-apocalyptic arid landscape.

Burke may secretly be playing Immortan Joe, but Hemsworth’s character could also conceivably turn out to be a younger incarnation of the Fury Road villain in a surprise twist. Related: Why The Original Mad Max Is So Much Darker Than Fury Roadįuriosa will star Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger version of Charlize Theron’s Fury Road heroine while Chris Hemsworth plays the biker gang leader Dementus and Tom Burke rounds out the cast in an as-yet unidentified role.

There is no definitive answer yet, but viewers can at least rule out some possibilities by the process of elimination (which is about as much clarity as the mercurial Mad Max franchise ever provides). However, the official Furiosa synopsis does offer viewers some possible clues about the Anya Taylor-Joy vehicle’s place in the series. Thanks to all this confusion, it is almost impossible to tell exactly when the forthcoming Fury Road spinoff Furiosa takes place in the Mad Max franchise timeline.

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