What to know about George Miller’s post-Furiosa plans for the Mad Max series

After nearly a decade between trips to the Wasteland (i.e., Australia), director George Miller has re-emerged with the latest entry in the Mad Max Saga, Furiosa. The excellent new movie fills us in on the backstory of the best character in Mad Max: Fury Road, and shows us how exactly she came to be driving a war rig full of wives in the series’ fourth entry.

But just because Miller’s latest movie isn’t focused on Max doesn’t mean his story’s over. Here’s everything we know about where the Mad Max franchise is heading next, how the series’ biggest hero will return for its next entry, and the question people always wonder about when they’re sitting in the theater after the action stops.

Does Furiosa have a post-credits scene?

Nope, just like Mad Max: Fury Road before it, Furiosa does not have a post-credits scene. (There is a single, split-second close-up shot of a wildly bobbling piece of vehicle décor, but no characters or dialogue, and it flashes by in barely a breath.) But the end credits do include some flashes of the best scenes from Fury Road. So technically, if you’d like a fuller post-credits experience, you can just go watch Fury Road as soon as Furiosa ends.

Is there going to be another Mad Max movie after Furiosa?

There will be — at least, that’s what George Miller hopes. Miller already has plans for the next movie, titled Mad Max: The Wasteland, and will likely make it if Furiosa is a box-office success.

What will the next Mad Max movie be about?

In the long break between Mad Mad Beyond Thunderdome in 1985 and Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015, George Miller spent a lot of time thinking about the story of the Wasteland. He created the story and script for Fury Road, a backstory for Furiosa that was so detailed, it nearly became an anime series, and backgrounds for just about every random character you can think of, including the Doof Warrior.

But the other thing he did was co-write, along with Nico Lathouris (his Fury Road and Furiosa writing partner), a novella about Mad Max’s time in the desert before the events of Fury Road. This is likely what the next movie in the series would be about. So we’d be getting another prequel — but if any movie deserves a variety of prequels, it’s probably Mad Max: Fury Road.

Will Furiosa’s story ever continue after Mad Max: Fury Road?

Yes, but that project seems awfully far away right now. In an interview with Digital Spy, Miller explained that while his next project will be a prequel focused on Max, he’s spent some time thinking about what happens after Furiosa takes over the Citadel, too. But that project will have to wait in line, and since it took him almost a decade to make Furiosa after Fury Road, it’s probably best not to hold your breath.