The eagerly anticipated motion journey Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is ready to premiere at this 12 months’s Cannes movie competition.
The director George Miller has returned to the world of his Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Highway with a prequel exploring the origins of Furiosa, a personality beforehand performed by Charlize Theron. The prequel stars Anya Taylor-Pleasure within the position with Chris Hemsworth additionally starring.
“The thought of this prequel has been with me for over a decade,” stated Miller in an announcement. “I couldn’t be extra thrilled to return to the Competition de Cannes – together with Anya, Chris and Tom [Burke] – to share Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. There isn’t any higher place than La Croisette to expertise this movie with audiences on the world stage.”
In 2015, Mad Max: Fury Highway additionally premiered on the competition and went on to win six Oscars and make $380m worldwide. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw referred to as it “extravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and completely excessive” in his evaluation.
Since then Miller additionally premiered Three Thousand Years of Longing on the competition. The fantasy drama starred Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.
When requested about Taylor-Pleasure taking up the position, Theron referred to as her “one of many biggest fucking actresses”.
“It’s the dirtiest and the bloodiest I’ve ever been, which is saying one thing, genuinely saying one thing,” Taylor-Pleasure has stated of the shoot.
The actor, whose roles embody The Queen’s Gambit, The Witch and The Menu, can even be seen subsequent in Apple’s motion romance The Gorge alongside Miles Teller.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will display out of competitors on the competition, shortly earlier than its theatrical launch. The complete line-up will likely be formally introduced subsequent month however hypothesis suggests new movies from Jacques Audiard, Andrea Arnold and Francis Ford Coppola could also be included. This 12 months’s jury will likely be led by Greta Gerwig.
