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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeorge Miller
Written by
Based on
Characters
by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySimon Duggan
Edited by
Music byTom Holkenborg
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • 15 May 2024 (2024-05-15) (Cannes)
  • 23 May 2024 (2024-05-23) (Australia)
  • 24 May 2024 (2024-05-24) (United States)
Running time
148 minutes[2]
Countries
  • Australia
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$168 million[3]
Box office$67.8 million[4][5]

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (or simply Furiosa) is a 2024 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller, who wrote the screenplay with Nico Lathouris. It is the fifth installment in the Mad Max franchise, serving as a prequel and spin-off to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and focuses on the Fury Road character Imperator Furiosa. The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Alyla Browne as younger versions of Furiosa (originally portrayed by Charlize Theron), alongside Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.[6]

Set 15 to 20 years before the events of Fury Road, in a desert wasteland where warlords fight over the last remaining sources of water, food, weapons, and gasoline, Furiosa traces the young title character's life from her kidnapping by the forces of warlord Dementus (Hemsworth) to her revenge on the warlord for the loss of her mother. For over a decade, she struggles to survive as a slave and, eventually, a trusted lieutenant of the Citadel's cult leader, Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme), and his military commander Praetorian Jack (Burke).

Miller initially intended to shoot Furiosa back-to-back with Fury Road, but the former spent several years in development hell amidst salary disputes with Warner Bros. Pictures, Fury Road's distributor. Several crew members from Fury Road returned for Furiosa, including composer Tom Holkenborg, costume designer Jenny Beavan, editor Margaret Sixel (Miller's wife), and screenwriter Lathouris. Filming took place in Australia from June to October 2022.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2024. It was released in theaters in Australia by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures on 23 May 2024, and in the United States the following day. The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $67 million worldwide.

Plot

Years after a global catastrophe, Australia is a radioactive wasteland and the Green Place of Many Mothers is one of the last remaining areas with fresh water and agriculture. Raiders discover the Green Place while a young Furiosa and her sister Valkyrie are picking peaches. Furiosa attempts to sabotage their motorbikes, but the raiders capture her as a prize for their leader, warlord Dementus of the Biker Horde. Furiosa's mother Mary pursues them to the Horde's camp, killing all but one raider. The last raider delivers Furiosa to Dementus, but Furiosa mortally wounds him before he can reveal the Green Place's location.

Mary sneaks into the camp and rescues Furiosa; the Horde gives chase. Mary stays back to buy Furiosa time to escape and gives her a peach pit to remember her by, but Furiosa returns to her mother anyway. Dementus forces Furiosa to watch her mother's crucifixion. Haunted by the death of his family, he adopts Furiosa as his daughter, hoping that she will lead him to the Green Place. Furiosa tattoos a star chart to the Green Place on her left arm to find her way home.

After receiving a tip from a stranded soldier, Dementus and the Biker Horde besiege the Citadel, another Wasteland settlement with fresh water and agriculture. They are repelled by the War Boys, the fanatical army of Citadel warlord Immortan Joe. Dementus changes course, using a Trojan Horse strategy to capture Gastown, an oil refinery that supplies the Citadel with gasoline. At peace negotiations, Joe agrees to recognize Dementus's authority over Gastown and increase its supplies of food and water in exchange for the Horde's physician and Furiosa.

At the Citadel, Immortan Joe imprisons Furiosa in the vault with his stable of "wives." After Joe's son Rictus shows an attraction to her, she devises a plan to escape. One night, Rictus breaks Furiosa out of the vault to make sexual advances to her. Using a wig made from her own hair, she slips from his grasp and disappears.

Disguised as a mute teenage boy, Furiosa works her way up the ranks of Immortan Joe's men for over a decade and helps build the "War Rig", a heavily-armed supply tanker that can withstand raider attacks in the lawless Wasteland. During one such attack, the Rig's crew are wiped out, leaving its commander, Praetorian Jack, and Furiosa as the only survivors. Furiosa attempts to carjack the Rig and return to the Green Place, but Jack easily thwarts her. However, Jack recognizes her potential and offers to train her to escape the Citadel if she helps him rebuild his crew. Furiosa becomes Jack's second-in-command and is promoted to Praetorian. The two bond and resolve to escape together one day.

Immortan Joe decides to attack Gastown, as Dementus's mismanagement has led the facility to near-ruin. He orders Furiosa and Jack to collect weapons and ammunition from the Bullet Farm, an allied mining facility. However, Dementus, having preemptively attacked and captured the Bullet Farm, ambushes the War Rig on arrival. Furiosa and Jack barely escape, and Furiosa's left arm is severely injured. Dementus eventually chases them down and tortures Jack to death. Furiosa escapes her chains by severing her own injured arm, sacrificing her star map to escape. A loner[b] watches Furiosa return to the Citadel; she helps Joe plan a 40-day war, during which most of Dementus's horde is killed.

Having lost her path home, Furiosa shaves her head again, replaces her arm with a mechanical prosthetic, and pursues Dementus by herself as he flees with the remnants of his horde. After an extended chase, she captures him in the desert. Dementus taunts her, saying revenge will not make her whole. In a voiceover, the potentially unreliable narrator claims that Furiosa imprisoned Dementus at the Citadel and used his living body as fertilizer to grow a peach tree from her mother's seed.

For her services, Immortan Joe promotes Furiosa to "Imperator" and gives her command of a new War Rig. She eventually meets Joe's five remaining wives in the vault where Joe once held her prisoner. In the final scene, the "Five Wives" hide in Furiosa's War Rig the night before another supply run.[c]

Cast

  • Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa[8]
    • Alyla Browne portrays Furiosa as a child and teenager[9]
    • Archive footage of Charlize Theron as the older Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road is used during the end credits.[10]
  • Chris Hemsworth as Dr. Dementus, the warlord leader of the Biker Horde which abducted Furiosa and eventual ruler of Gastown[9]
  • Tom Burke as Praetorian Jack, the commander of the Citadel's first War Rig[9]
  • Lachy Hulme as Immortan Joe, the warlord leader of the Citadel and enemy of the Biker Horde[9]
    • Archive footage of Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe from Mad Max: Fury Road is used during the end credits.[11]
    • Hulme also portrays Rizzdale Pell, Dementus's lieutenant[12]
  • George Shevtsov as The History Man, an expert in pre-apocalyptic history, science, and technology who serves Dementus (the film's narrator)[13]
  • John Howard as The People Eater, Joe's advisor and military strategist, and the future ruler of Gastown in Fury Road[9]
  • Angus Sampson as The Organic Mechanic, Dementus's and later Joe's personal physician[9]
  • Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus, Joe's muscular but dim-witted son[9]
  • Josh Helman as Scrotus, Joe's psychologically unstable son[9][d][e]
  • Charlee Fraser as Mary Jabassa, Furiosa's mother[9]
  • Dylan Adonis as Little Valkyrie, a Vuvalini friend of Furiosa[15][f]
  • Elsa Pataky as Mr. Norton, a deformed survivor who joins the Biker Horde[16]
    • Pataky also portrays a Vuvalini General[16]
  • Bryan Probets as Chumbucket, a hunchbacked auto mechanic at the Citadel[g]
  • Quaden Bayles as War Pup[9]
  • Peter Stephens as Guardian of Gastown[18]
  • iOTA as The Doof Warrior, the post-apocalyptic version of a drummer boy[15]
  • Lee Perry as The Bullet Farmer, ruler of the Bullet Farm and the Citadel's arms supplier[15][h]
  • Daniel Webber as War Boy[9]
  • Sean Millis as Lone War Boy[19]
  • Jacob Tomuri as Max Rockatansky,[9][i][j] a loner living in his car who witnesses Furiosa return to the Citadel. He will later help Furiosa defeat Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road.
    • Archive footage of Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky from Mad Max: Fury Road is used during the end credits.[23]


Additionally, the end credits are intercut with archive footage from Mad Max: Fury Road, in which Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee, and Courtney Eaton appear as Nux, The Splendid Angharad, Toast the Knowing, Capable, The Dag, and Cheedo the Fragile, respectively.[24]

Production

Pre-production

Director George Miller and co-writer Nico Lathouris spent over 15 years writing the script for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and developed backstories for every character, particularly co-protagonist Imperator Furiosa.[25] They eventually wrote a Furiosa-centered screenplay, which actress Charlize Theron used as a reference for her performance in Fury Road.[26] At one point, Miller and Lathouris hoped to turn the Furiosa screenplay into an animated film.[27] According to Miller, Furiosa "probably" takes place after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), but the Mad Max franchise has "no strict chronology".[28] The first trailer of the film, released on 30 November 2023, confirmed that Furiosa takes place "45 years after the collapse".[29]

In July 2010, Miller announced plans to shoot Fury Road back-to-back with a live-action prequel film entitled Mad Max: Furiosa, but during pre-production, it was decided to only shoot Fury Road.[30] In November 2017, Miller's production company filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. over a Fury Road salary dispute, which delayed the production of any additional entries in the franchise.[31] In July 2019, Miller revealed that a Furiosa film was still being planned in addition to two Mad Max sequels.[32] By March 2020, Miller and Warner Bros. settled their lawsuit and began casting the Furiosa prequel, which Miller intended to make after Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022). It was reported that the film would take place over a timeframe of 15 years, depicting Furiosa's backstory of how she was displaced from her home and spent her life "trying to get back".[26]

Multiple Fury Road crew members agreed to return for the film, including composer Tom Holkenborg, costume designer Jenny Beavan, editor Margaret Sixel, makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, production designer Colin Gibson, and sound mixer Ben Osmo; Beavan, Sixel, Vanderwalt, Gibson, and Osmo had all previously won Academy Awards for their work on Fury Road.[8][33][34][35] In 2020, Miller said that the semi-retired John Seale had agreed to return as cinematographer, but Seale retired after shooting Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing, explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his grandchildren.[25][36] Simon Duggan took over as Furiosa's cinematographer.[37]

In May 2024, after the film's release, Deadline Hollywood reported that Village Roadshow Pictures, which had co-financed Fury Road, did not co-finance Furiosa. The news site also reported that as a result, "Warner Bros. is all in on Furiosa", although Domain Entertainment (a private equity fund that co-financed other Warner Bros. productions like Barbie and Wonka in 2023) was listed in the opening credits along with Warner Bros.[1][38]

Casting

A photograph of Anya Taylor-Joy
A photograph of Chris Hemsworth
A photograph of Tom Burke
A photograph of Lachy Hulme
Top: Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth Bottom: Tom Burke and Lachy Hulme

Miller sought to cast a younger actress for the role in lieu of using de-aging technology for Theron, explaining that the technology still leaves "an uncanny valley" effect.[25] The latter admitted that the decision was "a little heartbreaking, for sure," but understood Miller's rationale.[39] In March 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia, Miller auditioned several actresses over Skype for the Furiosa role.[40] In October 2020, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II were cast.[8] Miller chose Taylor-Joy after seeing her performance in an early cut of the film Last Night in Soho (2021) and auditioning her with the "Mad as Hell" monologue from Sidney Lumet's Network (1976).[41][42] Edgar Wright, the director of Last Night in Soho, told Miller to "do yourself a favor and grab the opportunity to work with her".[39] Taylor-Joy received advice from Nicholas Hoult, who had previously portrayed Nux in Fury Road and worked alongside her in The Menu (2022).[43]

In 2021, Miller cast Alyla Browne as a young Furiosa; she had previously worked with Miller on Three Thousand Years of Longing. Miller said that she reminded him of a young Furiosa, and that she impressed him while doing the splits on set.[44] Tom Burke joined the cast in the autumn of 2021 as Praetorian Jack, replacing Abdul-Mateen, who dropped out due to a scheduling conflict.[45]

In June 2022, it was reported that Nathan Jones and Angus Sampson were set to reprise their roles from Fury Road.[46] That August, Quaden Bayles, who worked on Three Thousand Years of Longing after a video about his mistreatment at school went viral, was announced to be appearing in Furiosa in a small role.[47]

In March 2024, it was revealed that Lachy Hulme would portray a younger Immortan Joe in the film, succeeding the late Hugh Keays-Byrne, who portrayed Joe in Fury Road and died in 2020. At first, Hulme was only cast as Rizzdale Pell and Miller planned to use a body double for Immortan Joe. However, during filming, Hulme offered to portray the Immortan to honor Keays-Byrne, insisting he could replicate Joe's voice and eyes; he eventually convinced Miller to cast him.[12][48]

Filming

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was shot in the New South Wales towns of Hay (left) and Silverton (right), which is often considered a ghost town,[49] though it reportedly has a small population of 48 people.

In May 2022, Miller confirmed to Deadline Hollywood that second unit filming was underway in Australia in advance of principal photography.[50] The film was awarded a AU$175 million filming incentive,[51] and spent a total of US$233 million (AU$343.2 million) in Australia, the most-ever for a film production in the country.[52] Hemsworth stated that Miller had hired ex-convicts as supporting artists for the film.[53] In May 2022, second unit filming moved to Hay with more scheduled to take place in Silverton.[54]

Principal photography began on 1 June 2022, in Australia.[55] The action sequence where the raiders attack the War Rig took 78 days to shoot; close to 200 stunt performers worked on it every day.[56] Filming was expected to wrap in September, but instead wrapped in October.[57][58] Taylor-Joy said that working on the film was a challenging experience, stating: "I've never been more alone than making that movie ... I don't want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard."[59] Hemsworth arrived on set nursing a back injury, but said that he was excited to work on Furiosa because playing Dementus allowed him to get "out of that typecast space of the muscly action guy and ... play a character with complications and darkness." He explained that "suffering without a purpose is awful," but "suffering with purpose can be rejuvenating and replenishing."[60]

Post-production

Fury Road production VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson returned for duty on Furiosa, working with visual effects studios DNEG, Framestore, Rising Sun Pictures, and slatevfx.[61][62][63]

Music

Main article: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (soundtrack)

The musical score for Furiosa was written by the Dutch composer Tom Holkenborg, who moved to Sydney, Australia to pen the score, his third with Miller after Fury Road and Three Thousand Years of Longing. Holkenborg pointed out that when it came to the music in Furiosa, it's character-driven given how it centers around the protagonist's life from 8 to 18 years of age, versus Fury Road, which took place in a desert race of 48 hours. "Musically, everything was being told from a first-person perspective, which is being her [Furiosa], how she, watches the world around her, The Wasteland, its cruelties", the composer elaborated.[64] A soundtrack album was released by WaterTower Music on 17 May 2024.[65]

Marketing

On 29 November 2023, the Warner Bros. booth at CCXP featured a first-look image of Taylor-Joy's Furiosa.[66] The following day, the teaser trailer of the film was released.[67] On 19 March 2024, the official trailer debuted.[68] At CinemaCon, Warner Bros. screened extended footage of the film on 9 April; Miller, Taylor-Joy, and Hemsworth appeared together for the first time in public to promote the film.[69] A new trio of first-look images from the film were released exclusively by Total Film on 19 April.[70] On 16 May, an extended sneak peek was released by Odeon Cinemas.[71]

It was reported that the film is split into three distinct acts—"I: Her Odyssey Begins"; "II: A Warrior Awakens"; and "III: Ride Into Vengeance".[72] While these were used promotionally, the final film actually features a total of five—"The Pole of Inaccessibility"; "Lessons from the Wasteland"; "The Stowaway"; "Homeward"; and "Beyond Vengeance".[73]

Release

Theatrical

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, screening out-of-competition, on 15 May 2024.[74] The film was released theatrically in Australia and India on 23 May 2024, and in the United States on 24 May 2024.[75]

The film was originally scheduled to be released on 23 June 2023, but was delayed to May 2024.[75][76][77]

Home media

In May 2024, Miller confirmed that the film will be receiving a black-and-white treatment, similar to what he did for Fury Road (referred to as the "Black & Chrome" edition) in 2016, expressing interest in black-and-white as a format for films; no release date has yet been announced.[78]

Reception

Box office

As of 28 May 2024, Furiosa has grossed $32.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $32.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $65.1 million.[5][4] Its debut has been described as "disappointing", having the lowest box office takings on the Memorial Day weekend since 1995.[1][79][80]

In the United States and Canada, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was released, alongside The Garfield Movie and Sight, and was projected to gross around $40 million from 3,750 theaters in its four-day opening weekend. Over the same frame, the film released in 71 additional territories, where it was projected to gross $40–45 million.[81] The film earned $10.2 million on its first day, including $3.5 million from Thursday night previews, similar to the $3.7 million made by Fury Road.[82][83] It went on to underperform, grossing $25.5 million in its opening weekend and $32 million over the four-day frame, marking the lowest-grossing film to finish in first over the Memorial Day weekend since Casper (1995), which opened to $22 million before inflation adjustment.[1][79][80][84] The film also came in below expectations in its global opening weekend, grossing a total of $58.8 million from 76 total markets through Sunday.[85]

Regarding the opening week box office performance, David A. Gross of movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research said: "This is a weak opening in spite of outstanding reviews and a good audience score."[86] According to TheWrap, one of the reasons for the underperformance was because the film is not a 4-quadrant tentpole, writing: "It's worth noting that even if it had matched the start of Mad Max: Fury Road — a film that opened to $45 million in 2015 and made $379 million worldwide — Furiosa wasn't ever expected to be a Fast & Furious or Disney remake-level moneymaker for theaters, skewing more towards male audiences and to longtime Mad Max fans."[84]

In Australia, the film opened at number one for the weekend, earning $3.33 million (AUD).[87]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 405 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "Retroactively enriching Fury Road with greater emotional heft if not quite matching it in propulsive throttle, Furiosa is another glorious swerve in mastermind George Miller's breathless race towards cinematic Valhalla."[88] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 79 out of 100, based on 62 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[89] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled by PostTrak gave the film an average of 4 1/2 stars out of 5, with 70% saying they would definitely recommend it.[1][90]

Writing for RogerEbert.com, Robert Daniels awarded the film 4 out of 4 stars, and called it "one of the best prequels ever made". He praised the storyline, action sequences, and performances.[91] Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood viewed the film as possessing "the best screenplay of any Mad Max film".[92] The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called Taylor-Joy "an overwhelmingly convincing action heroine".[93] Writing for Empire, John Nugent awarded the film 5 out of 5 stars, and described Taylor-Joy as "phenomenal", finding the "right balance of steeliness and fractured humanity that Theron instilled".[94] Jada Yuan from The Washington Post thought that Hemsworth had "created one of the all-time-great screen villains"[95] and Jake Wilson of The Sydney Morning Herald saw him "steal[ing] the show".[96]

In a critical review, Owen Gleiberman of Variety perceived Furiosa as filled with "pretension" and as "franchise overkill".[97] Nicholas Barber of BBC also disliked some aspects of the film, giving it 3 out of 5 stars. He viewed the plot as meandering and as draining, writing: "You soon reach the point where you're sick of sand, sick of explosions, sick of off-puttingly sadistic violence."[98] Stephanie Zacharek's review in Time similarly criticized the film as "a slog that's working hard to persuade us we're having a good time".[99] John McDonald of the Australian Financial Review opined that part of the film's "failure may be attributed to the writing, but also to Hemsworth's woodenness as an actor".[100]

Notes

  1. ^ While Village Roadshow Pictures produced Furiosa and its production logo was shown in early promotional materials for the film, its logo and marquee credit were excluded from later marketing and the film itself.[1]
  2. ^ Identifed offscreen as Mad Max
  3. ^ As depicted in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).[7]
  4. ^ Previously voiced by Travis Willingham in the 2015 Mad Max video game.[14]
  5. ^ Helman previously portrayed Slit, Nux's lancer and one of the War Boys in Mad Max: Fury Road.[14]
  6. ^ Previously portrayed by Megan Gale in Mad Max: Fury Road.[15]
  7. ^ Previously voiced by Jason Spisak in the 2015 Mad Max video game.[17]
  8. ^ Perry took over the role from the late Richard Carter, who died in 2019.[15]
  9. ^ Previously portrayed by Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road on which production Tomuri had served as Hardy's stunt double.[20][21][22]
  10. ^ Credited as "Mad Max".

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