'Mad Max 2' Happening? Director George Fuller Talks Possible Sequel

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"Mad Max: Fury Road" made waves in the box office when it was released in May last year, earning 375.8 million worldwide. The George Miller-written and -directed film went on to earn Golden Globe nominations for best picture and best director, The Guardian reports. The film is going up against "Carol," "The Revenant," "Room," and "Spotlight" in the upcoming 73rd Golden Globes’s best drama picture category.

The film brings together Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, and Nicholas Hoult in a post-apocalyptic nuclear holocaust era that turned the world into a desert wasteland, where resources and people are scarce. Theron emerged as a strong contender for awards as well, as she was nominated for best actress and best actress in an action movie at the Critics' Choice Awards, which will be held on Jan. 17, The Hollywood Reporter reveals.

With the massive success of "Mad Max: Fury Road", it doesn't come as a surprise that Miller is being barraged with questions on whether or not there will be an iteration of the film.

In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 70-year-old Australian director spoke up on a possible sequel, saying that he is "certainly having conversations about it."

"But I’m not sure if it’s the very next movie I want to do. I’ve got something a bit smaller before we go back out into the wasteland—something that’s contemporary that we can get through fairly quickly," Miller admitted. "And something with not too much technical difficulty. Something more performance-based and so on, just to clear the exhaust."

While there's nothing definite about a "Mad Max" sequel, the director admits that they are looking to explore more of Theron's Imperator Furiosa. He said, "She’s a pretty compelling character so it would be great to tell her story."

"Her backstory is really interesting," he said of Furiosa. "We only allude to it in this movie because this movie is on the run; people don’t have much time for recreational talk. But you pick up, you have a sense of her having gone through stuff. That’s what the film is trying to do. You’re trying to put a lot of iceberg under the tip, I like saying."

Metro reports that back in last year's Cannes Film Festival, Theron praised Miller for constructing a character like Furiosa, especially when viewers began to think of the film as a feminist movie.

The 40-year-old actress said, "What I think is more powerful is that George didn’t have a feminist agenda up his sleeve and I think that’s what makes this story even more powerful especially how the women are represented in it because it’s very truthful and I applaud him for that."

"I think when we say ‘feminism’ people get a little freaked out because it’s like we’re being put on a pedestal," Theron admitted. "But George has this innate understanding that women are just as interesting and complex as men and he was interested to discover that."

Catch the Golden Globe Awards on January 17 to find out if "Mad Max: Fury Road" picks up the best drama picture award.