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Furiosa

  • 13-10-2020 6:23pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,502 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Mad Max spinoff Furiosa in the works with George Miller directing and Anya Taylor-Joy in the title role with Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II also joining - Deadline


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭Homelander


    God I hate prequels. Sometimes - just sometimes - in the context of an incredibly well established franchise, like Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings, they can have some merit.

    But seriously, who wanted Furiosa's backstory?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Homelander wrote: »
    God I hate prequels. Sometimes - just sometimes - in the context of an incredibly well established franchise, like Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings, they can have some merit.

    But seriously, who wanted Furiosa's backstory?

    To be fair, the same could be said for Fury Road and look how that turned out. Of course Miller probably now has more expectations than last time, but I'd remain cautiously optimistic he'll be allowed make the film he wants to rather than yield to any executive pressure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭Homelander


    I take the point, but equally, Fury Road was about bringing Mad Max to an entire new audience, decades after the original run - a direct sequel at that point would be lost to the mass market.

    But a prequel, to a prequel, I'm just not sure - surely a direct sequel to the newly established franchise would be more fitting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭Sonic the Shaghog


    To be honest just give me a aged Max with Mel Gibson


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Homelander wrote: »
    But a prequel, to a prequel, I'm just not sure

    is Fury Road a prequel?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,107 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Homelander wrote: »
    I take the point, but equally, Fury Road was about bringing Mad Max to an entire new audience, decades after the original run - a direct sequel at that point would be lost to the mass market.

    But a prequel, to a prequel, I'm just not sure - surely a direct sequel to the newly established franchise would be more fitting.

    Fury Road isn't a prequel though?

    Mad Max was the world on the brink
    Part 2 was the world had toppled over
    Thunderdome was civilisation of sorts being rebuilt

    Fury Road is a continuation of that.

    So a prequel to Fury Road would likely be between TD and FR.

    In FR Joe had built an established settlement with other significant settlements around them so it obviously didn't just spring up overnight.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Unless George Miller confirmed anything, I've tended not to think of Mad Max as having much continuity or "canon", beyond the first sequel showing a flashback to the original. The series feels more like a loose set of stories, tenuously centred around a single character. Taking inspiration from the kind of oral mythmaking this post-apocalyptic society might itself have: full of half-truths and abstractions; to the point where "Mad Max" might just be a label given to any number of reluctant strangerss who wander into other folks' adventures.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    George Miller loves continuity... or should I say he loves the sound it makes as he bludgeons it to death with a guitar. It’s a series with barely any internal consistency and all the better for it (well, maybe Thunderdome isn’t the better for it).

    It doesn’t even remotely ****ing matter whether any of these films are sequels, prequels, reboots, whatever. If he delivers on the insane action and sheer visceral vision of Fury Road again, that’s the important thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    This seems like a mistake. As much as I enjoyed Fury Road, it barely broke even at the box office, despite the presence of Mad Max and Charlize Theron in an iconic role.

    So now we get a Mad Max-free spin-off about Theron's character, but without her? Risky...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I'll believe it's happening once the cameras start, then stop rolling. After the madness of the Fury Road shoot, the very first attempt being flooded out of Australia, I won't take anything for granted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,502 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Chris Hemsworth will be the villain



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Acceptable.


    I wonder how he does as a villian and if humour will come into play.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    He played the villain in Bad Times at the El Royale; that used his status as a handsome man, playing a smiling, charming and manipulative cult leader. I have a sneaking suspicion he'll try and play against type here - given how dirty, mutilated and otherwise crap looking everyone has been in Mad Max films.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    How'd I forget Bad Times at the El Royale! 😲



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Good logo.

    I'm confident; Miller seems to have entered a small Blank Cheque phase in his septuagenarian years, between this and Three Thousand Years of Longing. Well, this may be more studio mandated, but Fury Road didn't exactly set the box office alight either so would be hopefully Miller has the right amount of creative control.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    First few set photos from Australia have surfaced; the dirt bikers look familiar and like those from Fury Road. The giant gate is suitably epic.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Given Furiosa came from the tribe named after lady parts I suppose you’d expect to see similar bikes to those the old ladies had in Fury Road.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    The official synopsis was released. My guess is Hemsworth will play young Immortan Joe.

    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. 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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Hmm... I reacted to reading that by thinking Hemsworth feels a bit taller to be IJ.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Well first look at Hemsworth; sporting red hair & prosthetic nose (sorry for the Daily Mail link)




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Production in Sydney has shut-down as George Miller contracted CoVid. Reads like the earliest it can start up again is Aug 15.

    Set photos also revealed the return of

    The War Boys.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Ryaller




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,502 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Thor hamming it up and some dodgy CGI, a lot to live up to from Fury Road but have faith in George Miller



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The only blockbuster that matters in 2024, quite frankly. Inject that glorious chrome into my bloodstream.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Oh what a day, what a lovely day!



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Bloody héll, YES.

    Oh yes.

    It looks demented and epic, and I'm here for it all the way.

    I love Miller's complete rejection of visual verisimilitude for this completely overcranked, plainly CGI enriched look. It's a reminder that CGI itself is never the problem - it's how it's used.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    the cgi looks cr@p , Mad Max was always about practical effects, honestly looks about on par with the AI generated trailers doing the rounds at the moment

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,985 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    With the release date still 6 months away, CGI at this stage will always look unfinished. I'm sure it'll be a different kettle of fish in the middle of next year. It's not exactly a departure either, I mean, Fury Road had absolutely TONNES of CGI in it. It's the combination of on-the-ground real vehicles in real locations, ramped up with hugely heightened CGI elements.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    The CGI looks to be used in exactly the same way it was in Fury Road: to completely heighten the "reality" of this world into something almost surreal; cribbing about its presence feels a bit redundant at this stage - when we know how fabulous Miller has made it all look. No way you can claim Fury Road's own was "convincing". I hope he's given the post-production time to make the thing looked as accentuated as he wants.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Wow, the War Rig looks nice and shiny.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,886 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    So that's where depressed Thor disappeared to.

    Hopefully they clean up the CGI a bit as it looks a whole lot of fun.



  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Looks good,

    Pity that's it's ruined that Thor turns into imortan Joe in the trailer and casting credits on Google.


    Looks good, I like mad max



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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    Will definitely go see it, but have to agree that the majority of the chase and action scenes in the trailer look like terrible CGI, I know there was CGI in the last instalment but the majority of the action scenes showcased in the early trailers for the last one heavily showcased the real live action, and you could tell.

    Makes me worry the same level of stunt commitment is not going to be in this one. Hope I'm wrong

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,985 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    Ha, well it wasn’t for me until you posted that.

    <edit> though actually I think you might be wrong on that



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Looks like Chris Hemsworth's chopper will follow the rules of this world and look both insane and wildly impractical:




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    If the apocalypse wasn't hell enough, you have to deal with boy racers!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,886 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    New trailer

    It's cinemas May 24th




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭junkyarddog


    New trailer just released.

    As much as I love the Mad Max universe,I think it may be getting just a little bit ridiculous now.

    Hope they clean up that CGI,looks more like a cartoon at the moment.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭Patrick Mahomes


    The CGI looks crap.

    Regards,

    P.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I love that George Miller has basically got a really late in life blank cheque to make whatever he wants, to the level he wants.

    Yeah it looks like a cartoon. So did Fury Road; this was no bad thing.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I do think Three Thousand Years of Longing went a bit too hard on the ol’ glossy CGI, to the detriment of the film. So I hope Miller has pulled back a bit here. Granted, that was a pandemic production so was a bit more restricted than it might otherwise have been.

    But Fury Road was a glorious slice of exaggerated cartoonish excess, and I’m very glad this film seems to be sticking to that. Will reserve judgement on how successful it is til I see it on the big screen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,898 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    Regardless of how this movie turns out, if they follow the trend of re-releases and we get Fury Road back in theatres for a week it'll be all worth it.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    For sure: the pandemic obviously forced Miller to use CGI for what should have otherwise been fairly mundane scenes; I remember the last scene was supposed to be a simple walk in a park yet looked so achingly false.

    A couple of fleeting moments during (what I presume to be) the big finale set-piece looked a bit ropey but this "Fury Road universe" approach has from the get-go been extremely exaggerated both visually & tonally. I can accept "cartoon/bad CGI" when the film stages itself as a cartoon - I'd look at something like the now-ancient Kung Fu Hustle as an example of similar. To criticise that this looks like a cartoon I do have to wonder if users actually even watched Fury Road in the first place! 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,898 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    Turns out they've already scheduled some screenings, tickets booked 😁



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