The film Furiosa of the Max saga Max will be presented in preview at the 77e Cannes festival, organizers announced Thursday, nine years after welcoming Mad Max: Fury Roadthe fourth part of the postapocalyptic saga.
George Miller’s feature film will be screened on May 15 at the Lumière theater, in the presence of actors Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.
The film, which will be released in theaters on May 22 in France, will be presented out of competition at Cannes.
Furiosa: a Mad Max sagaits full title, returns to the origins of the heroine Furiosa, who appeared in Mad Max: Fury Roadan Oscar-winning film starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
It’s Anya Taylor-Joy, discovered in the series The lady’s gamewho plays young Furiosa in this prequel. Captured by a horde of bikers led by the warlord Dementus, she will try to find her way home.
“The idea of this prequel has been on my mind for over ten years,” said George Miller, quoted in the organizers’ press release. “I am delighted to return to the Cannes Film Festival — with Anya, Chris and Tom — to share Furiosa: a Mad Max saga. There is no better place than the Croisette to discover this film with audiences from around the world,” underlined the Australian.
George Miller’s work is the very embodiment of spectacular and popular cinema. It was in 1979 that the Mad Max saga began, with Mel Gibson, who gained his international notoriety on this occasion.
An eclectic filmmaker, George Miller was also president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. In 2022, he presented out of competition Three thousand years waiting for youwith Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.