George Miller’s Furiosa receives official synopsis
The Mad Max prequel centering the origin story of Anya Taylor-Joy's Furiosa has become just a little clearer
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The outline for George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road follow-up Furiosa has officially been laid down. The synopsis for the forthcoming prequel touts a biker horde and a war for dominance, as well as some familiar villain names.
Here’s the breakdown: “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,” the official logline reads. “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.”
While Charlize Theron first introduced the character of Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, Anya Taylor-Joy (Last Night In Soho, The Queen’s Gambit) will play the younger version of the character in Furiosa. The film also stars Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke (Mank), although it’s not been detailed who each of them will play (though bets are on Dementus and Immortan Joe, respectively). Hugh Keays-Byrne originally played the main villain Immortan Joe in Fury Road, while Dementus was first mentioned in the 2015 video game Mad Max, which is based on Miller’s universe.
Miller will direct Furiosa based on the script he co-wrote with Nico Lathouris, who co-wrote Fury Road and played the character Grease Rat in 1979's Mad Max. Numerous people from Fury Road’s Oscar-winning crew are returning for the prequel including production designer Colin Gibson, cinematographer John Seale, sound mixer Ben Osmo, editor Margaret Sixel, and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt.
Filming for Furiosa began earlier this month. Production follows the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Miller new feature, Three Thousand Years Of Longing, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. Furiosa is expected to arrive in theaters on June 24, 2024.
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2024? I hope we’re still here and not fighting Trump’s fascists in the streets while Putin irradiates Europe.
We oughta file this under “documentaries” then, shouldn’t we?
Putin’s not going to irradiate Europe. He owns too much property there.At any rate, I ain’t fightin’ nobody in the streets. But you young-ins have fun.
Dammit. All this talk about fighting in the streets and now I gotsta listen to
Oh, cheer up. It’ll be like Fallout except you get to start with good gear and there’s no deathclaws.
“good gear”Not in this part of the world, no. Best we’re going to manage round these parts is sharp sticks.
If you can’t start a NICS check for an AR15 within 30 minutes (during normal business hours, of course) then I can’t imagine there are a lot of Trump voters nearby.
It’s not Trump voters that worry me, but the thousands of nukes they’re soon going to control.
How horrifying that it took one Mad Max sequel to go from wow fun movie to, boy this feels relatable.
It didn’t really need a synopsis. “Anya Taylor Joy is Furiosa” is enough to sell me on this movie. Actually, “Anya Taylor Joy is in this movie” is enough
I don’t think I’ve ever been as hyped for a movie as I have for this one. I love Fury Road. I love ATJ. This is going to be DOPE.
Plus Hemsworth as a villain named Dementus? Come on!I hope his character design is as glorious as I imagine it! I mean, the codpiece alone… 😳
I like both Anya Taylor-Joy and Charlize Theron as actors, but neither can act so much that they’ll ever look like each other.
Ain’t no Furiosa without Charlize Theron.
Sounds like there will be. Did you read the article?
Fury Road was great but I welcome whatever the hell this crazy bastard wants to do with one of the greatest actors of her generation.
Oh yeah? And which actor would that be?
*eyes New Mutants*
Well I can’t really blame her since no one came out of that movie looking good.
“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.” is Charlize Theron’s character in the movie The Italian Job narrated by Danny DeVito’s character’s voice, who was the gangster crimescene photographer Weegee The Magnificent, who was Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in the movie Nightcrawler, in the movie L.A. Confidential “City of Bel Air! Fabled land of myth and story, where a young Afrikanse cable girl, smelling of fresh laundered linen shirt and that perfume in the pale yellow and white vertical striped box that Cameron Diaz used to sell that looked like the awning on a hotel on the coast in the south of France where Picasso used to stay in the 1930s, can meet a young Eldon Tyrell, black tousled hair, dressed in a black cashmere bathrobe with a gold medallion of Caligula on a heavy gold chain on his chest, in a Italianate villa at the top of a sweeping drive, set amongst overhanging trees and lush green lawns, with a black tiled swimming pool with a gold inlay Roman border and a gold inlay picture of a face in Greek mythology on the bottom of it and end up marrying him and living the life of a Pirate Queen of the South Seas that your average Balinese dancing girl on a gold bar could only dream of. Only in the City of Bel Air!” this isn’t the negotiation for the price of Korean reunification the price is still the price that Korea requires or Ukraine or Russia or President Putin or China or anything geopolitical this is a house in Bel Air
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they’re gone on the wind
So Furiosa, climb in – It’s a town full of losers
And I’m pulling out of here to win!Oh-oh-oh Fury Road, oh Fury Road, oh Fury Road!
This deserves SO many more stars
This is one of those few movie releases that kind of bums me out already in advance. Usually if there’s a movie I’m not interested in, it doesn’t matter as I’ll just skip it. However, here there is such a great character and instead we are getting a prequel that really doesn’t matter. There weren’t large parts of Furiosa’s story that needed to be explained nor is there any way for this story to really have a resolution as that is what happened in Fury Road.That character was just so magnificent that she truly deserved a more meaningful movie than whatever the hell this is.
Look, in the future just save us some time and write [boilerplate anti-prequel rant] instead.
Sure. By the way can you just point me to the multitude of anti-prequel rants I’ve done? Or have an actually reasonable answer where you point out where my argument about this not being able to have a resolution is wrong instead of failing at whatever this snarky response was?
Just because you haven’t made the rant before doesn’t mean the rant hasn’t been made every. fucking. time. a prequel is announced.
That’s what makes it boilerplate.
“That character was just so magnificent that she truly deserved a more meaningful movie than whatever the hell this is.”
Seriously, what’s the “reasonable answer” to that statement, other than “What the FUCK are you talking about? This is nothing but a boilerplate anti-prequel rant that we have seen a million times before by a million sad and angry idiots who have made up their minds before seeing a single frame of the film.”
Want a reasonable response? MAKE A REASONABLE ARGUMENT.
It’s not that you specifically have done a bunch of anti-prequel rants (though you may have, IDK). But every time there any sort of prequel for a well-regarded movie or TV series (and I guess book, to a lesser extent), the same arguments are made against it. And those arguments are typically pretty close to what you wrote. While they make a certain amount of sense, a story is worth telling as long as it is told well. (Better Call Saul, for instance.) So “We know roughly where this character ends up” isn’t a particularly strong argument, and given how good Fury Road was there’s no reason to believe that a prequel won’t be extremely entertaining.
It wasn’t that you do this a lot, just that I see this argument a lot and it’s dumb and I’m tired of hearing about it, so I made a little joke. Don’t take it personally.
pfft. I’ll take whatever George Miller can imagine over your imagination any day of the week. He’s blown my mind in the theater my entire lifetime.
I’m not surprised it’s not a sequel because Furiosa took over the Citadel and Mad Max movies never take place in the same spot twice. Max just keeps moving on.
Sounds like Theron was pretty bummed about that as well.
So we’ve got George Miller saying that there’s a story here worth telling, and we’ve got you saying there isn’t. I don’t know, I think my money is on George Miller.
Basically an origin story of how she proved herself such a badass that Joe brought her on rather than kill her.But generally speaking I feel like we already know that about Furiosa. She didn’t go get a CDL at War Rig Driving School and apply for a job at the Citadel. She stood out by virtue of surviving whatever trials a young person in Joe’s army goes through.
Anya Taylor-Joy seems more like someone that should star in a movie about The Dag than Furiosa. I like her as an actress but I can’t see her being convincing as a buff badass. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
I was wondering where to put this comment, but I can’t think of any better place than here:My sister has a German Shepherd with enormous ears named Anya, and every time I hear that name I think of gigantic erect dog ears.
I always think of Anya Jenkins, Xander’s demon girlfriend from Buffy, although maybe we aren’t supposed to like that show anymore.
Hmm…big sticky-up ears…Anya the Demon…hmm.It must be bunnies.
Anya is a great character and whenever I think about Buffy I think of all of the very talented writers and actors that brought my favorite show to life, not the little bald man.
It could be that Furiosa became a buff badass over time, or it could be that AT-J has depths we haven’t seen yet. Time will tell.
I find it very fun that that the author felt we needed parantheticals with roles played by Anya Taylor-Joy, who is pictured at the top of the article, and Tom Burke, but not Chris Hemsworth. That was a concious decision that was made by someone.
I find it fun that the guy who played the “said they were heading north. Maybe” auto mechanic in the original Mad Max is now penning sequel screenplays with Miller 40 years later.
Welcome to the Australian creative industries.
I still find it so random that Charlize Theron isnt in this.