Fury Road prequel Furiosa starring Anya Taylor-Joy


By Savanna Young For Daily Mail Australia

01:43 01 Dec 2023, updated 03:53 01 Dec 2023



Chris Hemsworth appears completely unrecognisable in the first action-packed trailer for George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, Furiosa.

The Australian actor, 40, transformed into villain Dementus with long, shaggy, shoulder-length hair, an overgrown beard and a prosthetic nose.

Friday’s trailer begins with an image of Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) stumbling through the wasteland.

‘Whatever you have to do, however long it takes, promise me you’ll find your way home,’ we hear a woman’s voice say over the image.

‘Furiosa, give me this promise,’ she continues, before we see Taylor-Joy’s dirt-caked face for the first time. 

Onscreen titles then tell us that ’45 years after the collapse’ of society, ‘a young Furiosa is taken from her family’. 

‘She will devote the rest of her life to finding her way home,’ the words continue.

‘This is her odyssey’ they conclude, before we see a series of action-packed imagery featuring both Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. 

Chris Hemsworth has become completely unrecognisable in the first trailer for George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, Furiosa
The Australian actor, 40, transformed into villain Dementus with long, shoulder-length hair, an overgrown beard and a prosthetic nose

The film tells the origin story of a young Imperator Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, who rose to fame as the star of Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit.

Her character was originally portrayed by Charlize Theron in the 2015 blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road.

The film is a ‘standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of’ Furiosa.

Friday’s trailer begins with an image of Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) stumbling through the wasteland
Onscreen titles then tell us that ’45 years after the collapse’ of society, ‘a young Furiosa is taken from her family’

‘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,’ a synopsis reads. 

‘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.’ 

Hemsworth has described his character Dementus as ‘a very violent, insane, brutal person that is born from the Wasteland.’

‘He has been birthed into a space where it’s kill or be killed. He’s learned to rule with an iron fist. There’s a charisma to him and it’s a very manipulative charisma,’ he said at CCXP in Brazil, where the trailer footage was unveiled.

‘This is her odyssey’ they conclude, before we see a series of action-packed imagery featuring both Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth

Furiosa was filmed in New South Wales and was expected to become the biggest movie ever to be made in Australia. Filming wrapped up in September, 2022. 

Franchise creator Miller is also back as director and co-writer of Furiosa, alongside Nico Lathouris, as well as his long-time producing partner Doug Mitchell.

Miller has described the prequel as ‘a saga’ that will be told over a 15-year period, which is much different from Fury Road, which spanned three days in its timeframe. 

Hemsworth has described his character as ‘a very violent, insane, brutal person that is born from the Wasteland’

Meanwhile, a development application (DA) to the Sutherland Shire Council indicates that filming in Kurnell is expected to last until October.

Last year, former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the highly anticipated Mad Max prequel would be filmed locally.

Berejiklian said it would be the ‘largest film ever to be filmed here’, creating 850 jobs and injecting at least $350million into the local economy. 

Mad Max Furiosa is scheduled for release in May 2024

She went on to praise the movie’s cast and crew, and said the production would ‘showcase Australian talent at its best’.

‘Chris, who’s made Australia his home, he’s a global superstar and works here in NSW, and I couldn’t feel prouder about him and his generation of actors that are really continuing to put Australia on the map,’ she said.

Mad Max Furiosa is scheduled for release in May 2024.

How ‘Furiosa’ fits into the Mad Max universe 

Mad Max is a post-apocalyptic action film series created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy.

The story takes place in a desolate Australian wasteland where society is on the brink of war due to a global oil crisis. 

The original 1979 film was created with an extremely small budget yet went on to earn global box office success.  

 Furiosa is a prequel to the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, and well tell the origin story of a young Imperator Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy.), originally played by Charlize Theron. 

 The titular role was played Mel Gibson in the first three films, with Tom Hardy taking over as Max in the fourth film. 

 While the timeline for the Mad Max saga is not concrete, Furiosa takes place somewhere between Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Mad Max: Fury Road.  

Below is the Mad Max movie saga in chronological order:  

Mad Max (1979) 

A vengeful policeman named Max Rockatansky embarks on a mission to stop a violent motorcycle gang after losing his family amid the chaos of post-apocalyptic Australia. 

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)  

Five years after the events of Mad Max, a cynical, worn-out Rockatansky is still on the road, scavenging for food and fuel with his dog. 

He agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits – for a price. 

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 

Fifteen years after the events of The Road Warrior, Rockatansky is still drifting through the desert, after being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia by a ruthless queen. 

He runs into a group of abandoned children, with plans to rebel against the town’s queen. 

Furiosa (2024)

The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teams up with Max in ‘Fury Road’.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman named Furiosda rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland. 

She is assisted by a group of female prisoners, a mad worshiper, and a drifter named Max.

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