This is the first film in the franchise in which Max Rockatansky does not have a central role. <\/p>
**WARNING \u2013 Includes spoilers for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga**<\/strong><\/p>\n Up until this point, every film in George Miller\u2019s Max Max series \u2013 from the 1979 original to 2015\u2019s hugely acclaimed Fury Road \u2013 has focused on the post-apocalyptic adventures of Max Rockatansky, played first by Mel Gibson and then by Tom Hardy.<\/p>\n But in the latest film in the franchise \u2013 which has just arrived in UK cinemas \u2013 Max is not the subject. The movie instead tells the backstory of Imperator Furiosa, a key character who was memorably introduced in Fury Road.<\/p>\n Unfolding over several years in the lead-up to the previous film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/a> sees Anya Taylor-Joy take on the role previously made famous by Charlize Theron \u2013 and she\u2019s joined in the cast<\/a> by a couple of familiar names in the shape of Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.<\/p>\n But what about Max himself \u2013 does he appear in the new film, even fleetingly? Read on for everything you need to know.<\/p>\n Yes<\/strong> \u2013 he does, but it\u2019s a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it appearance.<\/p>\n The cameo comes not long after the film\u2019s centrepiece action sequence in the section titled Stowaway to Nowhere, which sees Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her ally Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke) locked in a violent road battle with assailants in the employ of antagonist Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth).<\/p>\n Jack is killed in the fighting, but Furiosa manages an audacious escape by forcefully cutting off her arm and making her way back to the Citadel, where she can begin planning her revenge.<\/p>\n As she treks through the desert, we briefly cut to a figure who is watching over her from afar, and although it is never made explicitly clear who this is, the V8 Interceptor next to him pretty much gives the game away that it\u2019s none other than Max himself (played by Tom Hardy\u2019s Fury Road stunt double Jacob Tomuri).<\/p> There are no other appearances from Max in the film itself, although he can be seen in the end credits sequence \u2013 which includes snippets of several familiar scenes from Fury Road featuring Hardy.<\/p>\n Speaking about the decision to include the cameo, Miller told Entertainment Weekly<\/a>: \u201cIn doing what we did in the preparation of\u00a0Mad Max: Fury Road, we also wrote what happened to Max in the year before we encounter him in [that film].<\/p>\n \u201cAnd as we get towards the end of this movie, the chronology\u2026 Basically, we had to see that Mad Max was lurking around somewhere, because we do know what happened.\u201d<\/p>\nDoes Mad Max appear in Furiosa?<\/strong><\/h2>\n