The official trailer for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has been released and it features Anya Taylor-Joy’s Imperator Furiosa taking on Chris Hemsworth’s Dementus. The film is a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road and will follow a young Furiosa as she is taken away from the Green Place of Many Mothers. The trailer shows Furiosa being taken into the stewardship of Dementus as her new master wages war against The Immortan Joe. Along the way, Furiosa must survive many trials before she can attempt to find her way home.
The new movie marks the fifth installment of the Mad Max franchise and sees George Miller return as director. Other actors to star in the film include Tom Burke and Alyla Browne, Quaden Bayles, Daniel Webber, and Lachy Hulme, as well as Fury Road actors Nathan Jones and Angus Sampson who will be reprising their roles of Rictus Erectus and The Organic Mechanic.
The first teaser trailer for the film was released by Warner Bros. in December, and it is set to arrive in theaters on May 24, 2024. Fury Road, released in 2015, starred Tom Hardy as former highway patrolman “Mad” Max Rockatansky, alongside Charlize Theron. It was described as “packed with epic action sequences” and “rife with a relentless onslaught of thrills, spills and burning grilles.” It was also crowned the best film of the past 25 years on a list compiled by Rotten Tomatoes.
The trailer gives fans a glimpse of the epic action and emotional journey they can expect from the prequel. Venturing back to before the events in Fury Road, the film follows a young Furiosa as she is taken away from the Green Place of Many Mothers and forced to find a way to survive. Taylor-Joy’s portrayal of Furiosa promises to be just as captivating as Theron’s in the original. Fans of the franchise will have to wait until 2024 to see if the prequel lives up to the hype
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