Mad Max: Fury Road is the best action movie of the past decade. I will hear no argument on this point. It’s thrilling, weird, and visually spectacular, and now it’s getting a prequel: Furiosa.
Imperator Furiosa is the name of Charlize Theron’s character from Fury Road, a soldier in the employ of the warlord Immortan Joe. In the prequel she’ll be played Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger woman snatched from the bosom of the Green Place of Many Mothers, one of the few remaining verdant grasslands in the post-apocalyptic desert-scape where the Mad Max movies have always taken place.
She’ll spend the new movie trying to get back there. We know it doesn’t take, since she’s still riding the wastes in Fury Road, but no one tell her that. Check out the trailer below:
I will absolutely see this movie, because Fury Road blew the top of my skull clean off. It’s a mess up there. Fury Road is one of the rare movies I saw twice in the theaters. This trailer looks exciting, if a bit shinier and less grimy than I remember. There’s still time to retouch the visuals before it releases in theaters sometime in 2024.
Furiosa will also feature a younger version of Immortan Joe and star Chris Hemsworth as a rival warlord named Dementus. Hemsworth is a flexible actor who can do drama as well as comedy. That plus his intimidating physique make him a good fit for this world; director George Miller has been including dudes like that in the Mad Max movies since he started making them in 1979. At 78 years old, his films have somehow just gotten better.
Technically, the full title for this movie is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. I think that’s a bit unwieldy, but I know that studios don’t make movies anymore unless they can brand them as part of a cinematic universe, so I think we’re stuck with it.
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