Crazy Max franchise Author George Miller knew it beforehand Fury Road, that by creating a detailed sketch for the 2015 hit, he may have more stories to tell. But that wasn’t always the case for Miller, who developed the concept with Byron Kennedy in 1990 Crazy Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985). After this trilogy, the filmmaker thought he was at the end and made other cross-genre films such as: infant And Happy Feetwhich share a cast of heroic characters on journeys away from home and back again.
Now with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the fifth Crazy Max universe filmisn’t ready to stop and may even return to the Max character for another prequel story. Angry focuses on the character of Charlize Theron Mad Max: Fury Road, She takes us back to her origins as a child (Alyla Browne), 20 years before she becomes the Emperor’s leader, and shows us how she was kidnapped from the Green Place of Many Mothers by the warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) and into his most precious war became a station. The older she gets (later played by Anya-Taylor Joy), the greater her hatred for him grows.
Hemsworth gets to play a truly cruel villain here, in a heel turn that thrilled Miller. “He had a lot of wisdom about everything – about himself, about the world, even about a story like this, which is a world at extremes, and about how people would deal with all the moral injuries that occur in that world,” said the director Weekly entertainment about the casting.
He continued, adding that Taylor-Joy as Furiosa is a great contrast to Hemsworth’s brutal villain because the actress “…definitely has something mystical about her, but there’s also someone very, very determined in her.” You can feel it it almost immediately. And I think that’s up there on the screen.” Like Crazy Max With the lead roles ahead of her, she may not have many lines in the upcoming film, but her searing eyes dominate her on-screen presence as she plots her revenge and tries to return home.
The film will also contain references to this Mad MaxIn fact, Miller confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that Max and his trademark car “The Interceptor” will make a fun but quick cameo. Miller knew he had to include it. “By doing what we did in preparation Mad Max: Fury RoadWe also wrote about what happened to Max in the year before we met him [that film]”, he said about the creation of a possible spin-off film. “And as we get closer to the end of this movie, the chronology… Basically, we had to see that Mad Max was hanging around somewhere because we know what happened. The writers know what happened the year before with Mad Max, and we have a whole story about that that I would like to do if I get the chance.”
For the legendary filmmaker, producing these films was never part of a fully formed plan. “Mad Max 2 came about because of all the things I learned from Crazy Max. Not just how to make films, but also why they were so successful despite the difficulties I had in making them,” he said. “Why did the Japanese respond to it as a samurai film? Why did the French call it a “Western on wheels”? Why did the Scandinavians see this as a lone Viking? [film], and so forth. And I realized that we had inadvertently tapped into a kind of archetype.” Even 45 years later, the world he created is still unfolding in exciting ways for the director – and there could be more to come.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga hits theaters on May 24th.
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