Furiosa

JP Liz V1 · 13-10-2020 6:23pm #1

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

Homelander · 13-10-2020 7:59pm

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?

pixelburp · 13-10-2020 9:15pm

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.

Homelander · 13-10-2020 9:22pm

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.

Sonic the Shaghog · 13-10-2020 9:24pm

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

loyatemu · 14-10-2020 11:46am

Homelander wrote: »

But a prequel, to a prequel, I'm just not sure

is Fury Road a prequel?

El Gato De Negocios · 14-10-2020 12:05pm

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.

pixelburp · 14-10-2020 12:18pm

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.

johnny_ultimate · 14-10-2020 12:33pm

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.

speedboatchase · 14-10-2020 1:03pm

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...

JP Liz V1 · 10-09-2021 7:12pm

2024 release now

Slydice · 10-09-2021 8:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117873858#Comment_117873858

That's ageeeees! 😕

pixelburp · 10-09-2021 9:01pm

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.

JP Liz V1 · 28-02-2022 9:46pm

Chris Hemsworth will be the villain

Slydice · 28-02-2022 10:12pm

Acceptable.

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

pixelburp · 01-03-2022 8:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118710989#Comment_118710989

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.

Slydice · 02-03-2022 11:09pm

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

Mr Crispy · 01-06-2022 11:49pm

For better or worse (I personally think for better)...

https://www.slashfilm.com/881960/witness-me-furiosa-has-begun-production-shot-on-glorious-35mm/

pixelburp · 02-06-2022 2:01pm

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.

pixelburp · 21-06-2022 3:52pm

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.

https://mobile.twitter.com/solacecinema/status/1538211641527046144

silliussoddius · 21-06-2022 3:58pm

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.

pixelburp · 24-06-2022 7:10pm

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

Slydice · 24-06-2022 10:37pm

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

pixelburp · 07-07-2022 3:07pm

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

https://twitter.com/DailyMailCeleb/status/1543868032396787724

pixelburp · 11-08-2022 3:27pm

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.

Ryaller · 01-12-2023 1:00am

First trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrXQzUFeSc

Woof.

JP Liz V1 · 01-12-2023 1:12am

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

johnny_ultimate · 01-12-2023 1:16am

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

Mr Crispy · 01-12-2023 3:01am

Oh what a day, what a lovely day!

pixelburp · 01-12-2023 8:18am

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.

silverharp · 01-12-2023 8:49am

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

~Rebel~ · 01-12-2023 9:09am

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.

pixelburp · 01-12-2023 9:20am

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.

https://youtu.be/iTNchgZjufE

silliussoddius · 01-12-2023 8:13pm

Wow, the War Rig looks nice and shiny.

Agent Coulson · 01-12-2023 8:30pm

So that's where depressed Thor disappeared to.

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

02-12-2023 10:59pm

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

buried · 02-12-2023 11:40pm

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

~Rebel~ · 03-12-2023 2:56am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121447258#Comment_121447258

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

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

pixelburp · 06-03-2024 4:26pm

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

https://twitter.com/chrishemsworth/status/1765075255394189316

silliussoddius · 06-03-2024 11:30pm

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

Agent Coulson · 19-03-2024 5:19pm

New trailer

It's cinemas May 24th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVswuip0-co

junkyarddog · 19-03-2024 5:28pm

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.

https://twitter.com/chrishemsworth/status/1770118958806348072

Patrick Mahomes · 19-03-2024 5:49pm

The CGI looks crap.

Regards,

P.

pixelburp · 19-03-2024 5:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121913598#Comment_121913598

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.

johnny_ultimate · 19-03-2024 5:56pm

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.

Osmosis Jones · 20-03-2024 9:52am

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.

pixelburp · 20-03-2024 10:01am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121913735#Comment_121913735

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! 😁