What a lovely day! The new trailer for Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller’s “Furiosa” is here, unveiling a new title: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.”
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the much-anticipated return to the iconic dystopian world Miller created more than 30 years ago with the seminal “Mad Max” films. It is right at the top of our 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2024 list.
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Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smash “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The new feature from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures is produced by Miller and his longtime partner, Oscar-nominated producer Doug Mitchell (“Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Babe”), under their Australian-based Kennedy Miller Mitchell banner.
“He’s a complicated individual. He’s a very violent, insane, brutal person who is born in the Wasteland, which is the world in which the ‘Mad Max’ saga takes place in. He’s a product of his environment,” Hemsworth said of his character, Dementos, at Brazil CCXP, where the trailer was first revealed. “He has been birthed into a space where it’s kill or be killed. He’s learned to rule with an iron fist. There’s a charisma to him, and it’s a very manipulative charisma.”
Here’s the official synopsis of this prequel story, but the only other cast members named are Alyla Browne and Tom Burke.
As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
Miller wrote the script with “Mad Max: Fury Road” co-writer Nico Lathouris. Miller’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes first assistant director PJ Voeten and second unit director and stunt coordinator Guy Norris, director of photography Simon Duggan (“Hacksaw Ridge,” “The Great Gatsby”), composer Tom Holkenborg, sound designer Robert Mackenzie, editor Eliot Knapman, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and colorist Eric Whipp.
Sadly, “Fury Road” director of photography John Seale retired after collaborating with Miller on his fantasy romance film “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”
The team also includes other longtime collaborators: production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, sound mixer Ben Osmo, costume designer Jenny Beavan, and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, each of whom won an Oscar for their work on “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Warner Bros. Pictures Presents, in Association with Village Roadshow Pictures, A Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production, A George Miller Film, “Furiosa.”
Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute the film worldwide in theaters nationwide on May 24, 2024, and internationally beginning on May 22, 2024. ‘A Mad Max Saga’ is already tipped for a Cannes debut, much like how’ Fury Road’ premiered at the festival in 2015. Given how that lines up, the Cannes Film Festival always starts mid-May, so that debut feels like a good bet.
