George Miller’s latest booming cinematic venture into the Mad Max universe, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. Director George Miller spoke on stage at Cinemacon in Las Vegas about his history with the Mad Max franchise. He explained why, after all these years, he still finds himself pulled back into the allegorical narrative of the post-apocalyptic wasteland saying “I’m still doing them, because they’re very addictive.”
Miller explained how the idea for the film Furiosa began, saying:
“In order to tell the story of Fury Road … we had to understand everything about what we see on the screen. Not only the backstory of every character, but every prop, every vehicle. … It wasn’t a bible — we wrote the story of [the character] Furiosa in the 15 or 16 years of her life before we meet her in Fury Road, we wrote a story about Max in the year before he got there and so on. They ended up being a screenplay and one was a novella. We did it just for the actors and the crew so they could understand it. So when Fury Road worked, I thought, ‘This is a rich story to tell.’ It’s different — you don’t want a film to be a repetition of what you’ve just done, it has to be uniquely familiar, as I like to say, and that led to Furiosa.”
via Deadline
Miller began creating the world of Mad Max with the 1979 release of the original film, titled simply Mad Max, and has since expanded it throughout 4 films and multiple other mediums. The most recent installment, Mad Max: Fury Road earned six Oscars and worldwide acclaim. The next chapter in George Miller’s epic saga, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, will get worldwide release on May 22, 2024, and is one of our most anticipated films of the year.
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