George Miller said this film's script was already complete before Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) was filmed: "In order to tell that story cohesively, we had to know everything that happened in the time before, so we wrote a story about Furiosa from the time she was taken as a child, as she refers to in Fury Road, until she became the Imperator Furiosa. That ended up as a full screenplay, with concept art and so on. And the actors, the designers, and all the crew got the screenplay of that before shooting Fury Road."
A 15-minute action sequence in the film, known during production as "Stairway to Nowhere," marks a turning point for Furiosa. It took 78 days to shoot, with close to 200 some people working on it daily. George Miller did extensive storyboarding for the sequence, until he found the right way to do it. Anya Taylor-Joy revealed: "George and I would have these big conversations about why this particular set piece was so long. It's because you see an accumulation of skills over the course of a battle, and that's very important for understanding how resourceful Furiosa is, but also her grit. It's the longest sequence any of us ever shot. On the day we finished, everybody got a 'Stairway To Nowhere' wine!"
George Miller revealed that he has another Mad Max story, tentatively titled "The Wasteland," ready to go, depending on how well this film does. Like this film, it was born out of all the prep that went into making Fury Road. Miller stated: "Mainly because to tell the story of Fury Road, which happens over a very compressed amount of time, picking up all the backstory, all the exposition on the way, everybody working on the film, not only the cars, but all the designers, all the prop makers, everybody, had to understand the backstory very intimately in order for it to be coherent. 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."
Filmed in New South Wales, Australia. All Mad Max movies have been filmed in Australia, with the exception of Fury Road (2015), when record rain falls transformed the normally arid desert areas into lush green growth areas. Fury Road was filmed in Namibia.
Anya Taylor-Joy doesn't have a driving license, despite learning to do a J-turn on her first day of stunt school.