Let’s rank all the new fantasy and sci-fi trailers from CCXP!
By Daniel Roman
3. Fallout
The prize for the most interesting trailer of the weekend goes to Prime Video’s Fallout, which debuted the very first footage from the series. Like Halo, this one is based on a video game series. However, since this is the first time we’ve really seen anything from the show, the trailer had a lot of heavy lifting to do to introduce the overall premise to audiences at large.
I think it does a pretty damn good job of showing how our lead Lucy is emerging from her privileged life in an underground vault into a radioactive wasteland inhabited by all sorts of nasty creatures and human survivors engaging in Mad Max-style mayhem. But it also captures the spirit of the Fallout games very well, which is no small task. There’s a specific sort of tongue-in-cheek humor to Fallout which meshes a post-apocalyptic setting with 1940s nostalgia. The trailer nails it almost to a fault; I still can’t decide if “From the studio that brought you Free 2-Day Shipping*” is clever or groanworthy, but it fits.
Fallout hits Prime Video on April 12, 2024.
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
We also got an actual Mad Max trailer over the weekend. Eight years after writer-director George Miller broke our brains with the sheer adrenaline of Mad Max: Fury Road, he’s back with the prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Furiosa stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger version of the character Charlize Theron played in Fury Road, alongside Chris Hemsworth as the villain Dementus. Both look transformed in the film; after seeing Hemsworth play the charming and heroic Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for so many years, it’s going to be wild to watch him play a character as demented as Dementus.
The special effects look a little half-baked in some of the shots of the Furiosa trailer, but I’m going to just assume they’re still being worked on. This film is going to be a feast for the senses, and it’d be silly to assume we’re going to get anything other than another wild ride from Miller. Fury Road was nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, and a solid 50 minutes of that film is just the most electric car chase you’ve ever seen. I can’t wait to see what Furiosa holds.
