Mad Max: Fury Road was meant to be paired with an anime prequel, but plans changed For more than a decade, reports have been circulating about the original version of the upcoming action movie Furiosa — an anime series that director George Miller and writer Mahiro Maeda were working on at the same time they were developing Mad Max: Fury Road.
Miller revealed that the script for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was finished before he even filmed Fury Road.
At a Q&A after a recent press screening for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at IMAX Headquarters outside of Los Angeles, Miller revealed that while the anime series eventually evolved into a live-action film, one small element survived from the defunct project, taken from early character sketches by Fury Road concept artist and anime stalwart Maeda.
“That teddy bear — [Maeda] started doing some illustrations and put that bear in,” Miller said at the post-screening Q&A.