“Furiosa”, the new “Mad Max” in preview at the Cannes Film Festival

Australian director George Miller is back on the Croisette with the latest in the “Mad Max” saga, “Furiosa”, which is a prequel.

The film Furiosa of the saga Mad Max will be presented in preview at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the organizers announced Thursday March 21, nine years after welcoming Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth part of the post-apocalyptic saga. George Miller’s feature film will be screened on May 15 at the Lumière theater, in the presence of actors Anja 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 game, who 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 in my head 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 filmmaker.

Dystopian Western

George Miller’s work is the very embodiment of spectacular and popular cinema. It was in 1979 that the saga began Mad Maxwith Mel Gibson, who gained his international notoriety on this occasion. Mad Max II: The Challenge (nineteen eighty one), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) will follow.

Chronicle of societal and environmental collapse”, recalls the press release from the Cannes Film Festival, “this revisited western describes a dystopian world where speed and movement are synonymous with vital energy as well as death from resource exhaustion”.

Eclectic filmmaker and regular on the Croisette, George Miller was president of the Cannes Festival in 2016. In 2022, he presented out of competition Three thousand years waiting for youwith Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.