George Miller shared that the creative process for bringing Mad Max: Fury Road to life involved developing backstories for both Furiosa, which will be explored in the upcoming movie, and Max, focusing on his life before the events of the 2015 film starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.

"So, we had to write the story of Furiosa and the 18 years, as it turns out, before we meet her in Fury Road. We also had to write the story of the year of Max in the year before we encounter him in Fury Road. So, we have that story. We wrote that as a novella, Nico Lathouris and I, and so that's the story we have yet to tell.”