Director George Miller is gearing as much as return to the world of Mad Max with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and the filmmaker has now teased how the prequel is “a special animal” to 2015’s Oscar successful Mad Max: Fury Highway. Talking with Empire, who’ve additionally launch a number of new photos which you’ll be able to take a look at beneath, Miller revealed how a lot highway Furiosa plans to cowl because it explores the life and instances of the character.

“The story is the saga of Furiosa, and the way she will get taken from residence, and spends the remainder of her life making an attempt to get again. [In] Fury Highway, the story unfolds over three days and two nights. This movie follows the story that runs straight into Fury Highway, for 15 years. It’s a special animal. It’s received many various areas. It’s an odyssey. No query.”

Miller initially wrote the backstory of Imperator Furiosa as a part of the method for making Mad Max: Fury Highway. Nonetheless, actress Charlize Theron was immediately taken with the post-apocalyptic story, pleading with the director to make it a film, and thus making Miller notice there was certainly a narrative to be advised.

“She mentioned, ‘Please, George, can we make this primary?’ It was the primary time I realised that there’s one thing actually robust on this story.”

In fact, Theron is not going to be main Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and as an alternative The Northman and Dune 2 star Anya Taylor-Pleasure will step in. Through the interview, the actress mentioned that Theron has given her blessing, however Taylor-Pleasure was disenchanted by one factor when taking up…

“She’s been so elegant and type in letting me go and do it. However I really feel very fortunate that, from the second I learn the script, I simply knew this particular person. I felt so fiercely protecting over Furiosa, and fiercely protecting of her pursuits.

I used to be so excited to shave my head,” she says. “Then George noticed me in actual life, and went, ‘No, we are able to’t!’”

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Lands in Theaters in Might

Directed by George Miller, who co-wrote it with Nico Lathouris, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga serves as the primary spinoff within the Mad Max franchise and boasts an thrilling solid of Anya Taylor-Pleasure, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, Nathan Jones, Angus Sampson, Daniel Webber, Lachy Hulme, Hugh Keays-Byrne, and Chris Hemsworth as Warlord Dementus.

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You’ll be able to take a look at the official synopsis for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga beneath.

“Because the world fell, younger Furiosa is snatched from the Inexperienced Place of Many Moms and falls into the palms of an excellent Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping via the Wasteland, they arrive throughout the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. Whereas the 2 Tyrants warfare for dominance, Furiosa should survive many trials as she places collectively the means to search out her approach residence.”