A waterworld/mad max crossover could work as well
fury road establishes that one of the oceans bordering australia is completely dry.
I just looked that up. Apparently most of the movie takes place on a dry ocean bed.
Really creates more questions than it answers like why isn’t it a giant salt pan and why is there working infrastructure on the ocean bed unless it dried up some time before the fall of civilisation?
Also a remake of a 1960’s classic in the Mad Max universe: It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Max World.
Mad Max is a documentary, don’t be silly
One of the things I think is neat about the Mad Max series is it’s not really one apocalypse as much as a series of apocalypses like the bronze age collapse.
The society Max is raised in, shown in the first film is not normal to begin with. He turns up to a decidedly fascist “Hall of Justice” with a lightening bolt on display, but like they’ve only got a half dozen guys left for their sector and it’s a run down dump. The plot of that film is not normal society breaking but the wall no longer keeping out barbarians.
The army Immortan Joe and Praetorian Jack’s parents were in was probably not the Australian Defence force but some rump state trying to hold together.
Nuclear war is meant to have happened between Road Warrior and Thunderdome. Not before.
How is this relevant? Uh I don’t know, some parts of the world might be stable at some points and gone at other bits etc.
I love it when the story people just let shit happen off screen so the audience can fill in the blanks themselves. Like how eventually Max’s car is gone and he’s leading a camel. No need for 20 seconds of expository dialogue explaining where the iconic car went. Shit’s just fucked.
I’m nobody important but I’ve been in some story meetings on some pretty big IP’s where the director didn’t respect the audience. Or rather, it’s more accurate to say the attitude was, “we’re spending so much money we can’t afford for half the audience to not get something.” Fuck that. It’s cowardice. The product ends up being so bland just so it’s palatable for everyone.
It’s like chipping all the hard edges off a sculpture so nobody gets cut. Cool, cool. Now our sculpture is a big lozenge that looks like nothing.
that’s just Australia in overwatch lore, which the exact opposite of Australia in tf2 lore
