Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, and George Miller received an 8-minute standing ovation after the screening of ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga‘ at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The film is described as one of the best prequels ever made and a bold masterpiece.
Following the screening, the film debuts with a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes. “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is incredible, with Miller paving Fury Road with equal parts tragedy and spectacle. He distances himself tonally from its predecessor with a darker, more violent, and twisted prequel—but no less astonishing—that expands everything we thought we knew about Furiosa.
The film, which is the fifth installment in the Mad Max franchise, serving as both a spin-off and prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), is described as one of the most brutal Mad Max films yet.
Directed by Miller from a script he co-wrote with Nico Lathouris, his co-writer from ‘Mad Max: Fury Road.’ The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Imperator Furiosa, Chris Hemsworth as Warlord Dementus, Tom Burke as Praetorian Jack, Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus, Lachy Hulme as Immortan Joe/Rizzdale Pell, John Howard as The People Eater, Angus Sampson, and Quaden Bayles.
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.
According to reports, ‘Furiosa’ runs for 2 hours and 28 minutes of colorful mayhem. Taylor-Joy and Alyla Browne both receive their fair share of screen time as the title character.
Presented by Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and produced by Kennedy Miller Mitchell. It will hit theaters worldwide on May 24, 2024 (May 22, 2024, internationally). (Watch the trailer)
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