Nine years after hosting Mad Max: Fury Road, the 77th Cannes festival will host, in preview, Furiosa, the fifth part of the post-apocalyptic saga. George Miller’s feature film, scheduled for release on May 22 in France, will be screened on May 15 at the Lumière theater, in the presence of actors Anja Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.
Furiosa: a Mad Max saga, its full title, looks back on the origins of the heroine Furiosa, who appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road, a film with Charlize Theron and Tom Hardyn, awarded six statuettes at the 88th Academy Awards, in 2016. It is 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 more than ten years,” confided George Miller, in the press release published by the organizers. 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.”
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 Three Thousand Years of Waiting for You out of competition, with Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. For its first day of release in France, the film rose to fifth in the new release box office, behind Beast, with Idris Elba, but ahead of Le Bal de l’Enfer, directed by Jessica M. Thompson.
