Mad Max IV: Apocalypse

SCREENPLAY TREATMENT
Title: Mad Max IV: Apocalypse
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Action / Sci-Fi
Written by: [Your Name]
Based on Characters Created by George Miller

LOG LINE
In the scorched ruins of Sydney, Mad Max and Furiosa form a volatile alliance with the last of the Hell's Angels to search for a mythical water source in a radioactive desert. Their journey brings them face-to-face with mutant dingoes, an Aboriginal horn blower with arcane powers, and a crocodile-worshiping slave master guarding an oasis with genetically altered beasts.

ACT I — THE FALLEN WORLD
Opening Shot:
The Sydney Opera House lies half-sunken and blackened by ash. Toxic clouds roll through the skyline. The city is a skeletal monument to the past.

Max Rockatansky scavenges the ruins of an old desalination plant when he's ambushed by a feral pack of raiders on bone-covered dirt bikes. Just as Max is about to be overrun, a roaring convoy of war-worn Harley Davidsons blasts in, led by "Deacon," the grizzled leader of the last remnants of the Hell’s Angels. They're tattooed, scarred, and strapped with homemade weapons.

Max and the Angels fend off the raiders. Tensions rise—Deacon wants Max’s map, a half-burned relic from before the fall, rumored to show a freshwater source in the dead center of the Great Sand Sea.

Enter Imperator Furiosa, driving a rig powered by reclaimed nuclear rods and steam. She's tracking rumors of an oasis, chasing hope as always. She and Max exchange grudging respect—this isn’t their first post-apocalyptic rodeo.

ACT II — THE MUTANT NIGHT AND THE HORN OF WARNING
The unlikely convoy (Max, Furiosa, and the Angels) rides into the Red Zone, a desert cursed with radiation storms and nighttime mutations. As night falls, the air fills with guttural howls—mutant dingoes with luminous eyes and stretched sinew emerge from sinkholes.

Before all seems lost, a haunting horn reverberates through the night. The dingoes retreat in fear.

They meet Bilyana, an Aboriginal horn blower and spiritual guardian, who carries a digeridoo-like horn carved from whale bone. Bilyana warns them: “You seek the Oasis. You’ll find it. But not peace.” He offers to guide them—only if they respect the Songlines, the ancient routes of the land.

Their journey takes them through dead rivers and sunken nuclear subs. One of the Angels succumbs to radiation poisoning; another is dragged off by a desert mimic—nature is mutating against mankind.

ACT III — CROK AND THE OASIS OF CHAINS
They arrive at Kata-Kutu, an Aboriginal oasis hidden behind salt cliffs and geothermal fog. The water is pure—but cursed by the one who rules it.

Crok, a towering, radiation-scarred warlord draped in crocodile skin, rules the oasis with tribal-tech implants and brutal control. He claims to be the "Keeper of Dreamtime," but he's twisted Aboriginal culture into his own empire of slavery and spectacle.

Around the oasis, mutant crocodiles the size of trucks are chained like sentinels. Their eyes glow green, modified through bio-tech and genetic splicing.

Crok offers Max and Furiosa water—if they leave their weapons and their freedom. The Angels refuse. The stand-off is explosive.

ACT IV — THE RISING OF THE CHAINED BEASTS
Bilyana reveals the truth: Crok was once a child stolen during the Apocalypse Exodus, raised in bunkers under Darwin by scientists studying Aboriginal mysticism and reptile DNA. Now he believes he is the Dreamtime incarnate.

When Crok sacrifices one of the Angels to his mutant crocs during a ceremonial blood-letting, Max snaps. With Furiosa and Deacon, they plot a rebellion.

Bilyana blows the horn—this time not as a warning, but as a call. The spirits of the land, in the form of sandstorms and dingo packs, answer.

Max rigs the chains of the mutant crocs with motorcycle engines, breaking their tethers and turning the beasts on Crok’s men. A brutal melee ensues. Furiosa goes blade-to-blade with Crok atop a sacred monolith as crocodiles thrash below.

Deacon sacrifices himself by driving a rig full of fuel into the croc pens, detonating the eastern wall of the oasis. The water floods into the desert basin—liberating the slaves and purifying the land.

ACT V — THE NEW SONGLINE
Max and Furiosa stare into the sunrise. Bilyana tells them, “The land remembers. And it forgives—only when you walk it right.”

The surviving Hell’s Angels roar into the sunrise—free, baptized in fire and water. Max, once again, chooses the path alone, disappearing into the salt winds.

Final shot: A small plant begins to grow in the cracked earth near the broken chains of the crocodiles. Hope. Again.

THEMES:
Redemption through unity

Nature's revenge and reconciliation

Indigenous wisdom vs. techno-barbarism

The price of freedom in a world gone mad

TONE & STYLE:
Gritty, mythic, violent, poetic—like Mad Max: Fury Road meets Apocalypto with touches of The Proposition and Tank Girl absurdity. Wide desert vistas, hallucinatory dreams, brutal practical effects, and pounding percussive soundtrack.