At CinemaCon 2024, director George Miller – along with stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth – gave an extensive preview of their new film. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and it was colossally epic. The clip runs about five minutes showed the whole range of Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, and divided the plot into chapters.
The first chapter was called “Her Odyssey Begins” and focused on Furiosa as a child. We see her being taken away from the green place – the rare part of it Crazy Maxis a wasteland where plants still exist – and her mother hunts them down to save them. The young girl is introduced to Dementus (Hemsworth), a fierce warlord who takes a liking to her. He tells her that he will follow the leads to where she lives and kill everyone, which will be around the time her mother shows up. Mom wears a skull mask and carries a sniper rifle and causes a lot of trouble. She saves the young Furiosa, but leaves a trail behind on the journey home. Dementus and his men follow the trail and kidnap Furiosa again and crucify her mother. Furiosa is understandably not happy.
Now that she’s fully with Dementus, we see him head to Immortan Joe’s citadel and challenge him for the land. Joe says that if he can get the young girl Dementus is carrying with him, they can call a truce. Dementus agrees.
Chapter two is titled “A Warrior Awakens.” And now Furiosa is played by Anya Taylor-Joy. She works on big rigs for Joe and fights off scavengers while hanging from a truck. Eventually, one of the people who attacked her tries to reason with her and offers her the opportunity to learn skills that will help her free herself. As a fan, you can’t help but notice that this man has the same black color on his head as Furiosa Fury Road. Furiosa forms an alliance with him. The man and Furiosa develop a friendship and possibly more as he explains how he wants to help her. We see Furiosa grow in power and eventually tell an enemy that she lost her family and her childhood and wants them back, all while driving a hot rod through the desert in a massive action scene. She cuts her hair and somehow loses her arm.
Chapter three is called “A Ride to Vengeance” and we finally see how Furiosa pursues Dementus and his people. This is mostly the action we saw in the first two trailers, with Taylor-Joy really in full swing. The scenes end with a war rig driving down the street with a huge fire in front and a huge parachute flying in the other direction while people constantly shout “Furiosa!” Furiosa! Furiosa!” as the final few scenes unfold.
It’s unclear whether the film itself will be divided into these chapters, but from the way the trailer has done it, you get a very good idea of how the film’s story is spread out over a period of almost two decades .
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opens May 24th.
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