Dan Doperalski for Variety Yahya Abdul-Mateen II wasn’t going to waste his one “Marvel buck.” This is the same man who walked away from a George Miller’s “Furiosa.”
The move was necessary. Six straight years of work — “The Get Down,” “Aquaman,” “Watchmen,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “The Matrix Resurrections,” “Black Mirror” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” — had left him, by his own admission, depleted. Conversations with Miller about the “Mad Max” prequel were warm and respectful, he is careful to note, but the prospect of another nine-month overseas shoot collided with the simple desire for an apartment that was not, in his words, mostly “a storage unit.”
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