Mad Max: Fury Road was a revelation when it launched in 2015, and a lot of that may be owed to Charlize Theron’s Furiosa. Even with Max Rocktansky getting high billing, it’s extra her film than his, and we’ree now primed to get an origin story with the upcoming Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
“Saga” is an apt phrase, it appears. In Empire Magazine’s new write-up on the prequel, the outlet reveals we’ll watch Furiosa—performed right here by Anya Taylor-Joy—all through 15 years of her life. “The story is the saga of Furiosa,” defined director/co-writer George Miller, “and how she gets taken from home, and spends the rest of her life trying to get back. ”
In that first trailer, which calls the movie Furiosa’s “odyssey” of discovering her means again, you get a sense of how a lot time can be lined. Not solely can we see Furiosa as a younger little one and a younger girl donning her black brow paint for the primary time, she additionally has each of her arms. That trailer ends on the sight of the Furiosa will come to know, prosthetic included, and it’ll be attention-grabbing to see how she will get to be an eventual enforcer for Immortan Joe. And whereas it might be a prequel, Miller has no intent of coasting on the virtually 10-year goodwill of that earlier film. “It’s a different animal,” he mentioned. “It’s an odyssey. No question.”
15 years is a very long time—Fury Road, for comparability, happened over a couple of days—and as a end result, Miller teased we’ll be seeing “many different locations.” Since this is meant to steer immediately into its predecessor, he was requested if this meant there’d be a cameo from Tom Hardy’s Max at any level within the movie. To that, all he mentioned was the Road Warrior was “lurking in the background. I won’t give away too much about that.”
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga releases on May 24.
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