There are only a few weeks left until the release of what is one of the most anticipated films of the year, Furiosa: from the Mad Max saga. The title of this film, which hits theaters on May 24 after passing through the Cannes Festival, is no coincidence, since the film is the first prequel to the universe created by George Miller in 1979 with Mad Max. Highway savages. A first installment of this apocalyptic and post-nuclear desert world that would have two other sequels in the 80s with Mel Gibson as the protagonist and a reboot in 2015, again by Miller. That restart with Mad Max: Fury on the road It marked a before and after in the saga, which now faces a hopeful future.
Because everything indicates that Furiosa: from the Mad Max saga, will not be the first nor the only prequel to the saga. Because George Miller has acknowledged that, despite not having released his new film yet, he is already working on various projects related to the saga. “By doing what we did in preparing Mad Max: Fury Road, We also wrote what happened to Max the year before we met him. And as we approach the end of Furious, we had to see that Mad Max was lurking somewhere because we do know what happened. The scriptwriters know what happened to Mad Max that previous year, and we have a whole story about that, which I would like to do sometime if I have the opportunity,” revealed the Australian.
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When asked where this project still stood, Miller was cautious. “Well, we are working on it. And like I say, we wrote it basically as a novel, and now that we have the opportunity, we’ll take it into screenplay form, and then we’ll take it from there“explained the filmmaker, who is surely waiting to see how the public reacts to Furious to grow with producers in the face of new deliveries. At 79 years old and after directing other works such as Babe, the brave little pig either Happy FeetMiller still believes in the future of the saga Mad Max.
First of all, the Australian director will have to pass a tough test with Furiosa: from the Mad Max saga. Which opens the next Cannes Festival and hits theaters on May 24. In the film we are told the origin of a character we met in Mad Max: Fury Road, Furious. Set between 15 and 20 years before the events of that installment, here we meet a young version of the intrepid Furiosa, a woman snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and who finds herself involved in the war between two ringleaders: the already known Immortan Joe and the Warlord Dementus. Furious, she will have to find a way to survive to return home while she gets involved in this bloody war between two very bloodthirsty sides.
Furiosa: from the Mad Max saga is starring Anya Taylor-Joywho takes over from Charlize Theron in the role of Furiosa and who is accompanied by Chris Hemsworth in the role of Dementus and Lachy Hulme, who in turn takes over from the late Hugh Keays-Byrne. We will not see Mad Max Tom Hardy in this sequel, which does inhabit the same universe and is roaming around it according to the words of George Miller, but perhaps we won’t have to wait long to see a new prequel to the saga that fills in these gaps around the whereabouts of the reckless driver .
