In a spectacle befitting the most expensive movie ever made Down Under, Hollywood heavyweights Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy invaded Sydney on Wednesday with a small army of “war boys” to promote Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Visionary director George Miller’s follow-up to the 2015 box office hit Fury Road has its Australian premiere on Thursday, 45 years after the filmmaker launched Mel Gibson’s career with Mad Max.
Speaking to The West Australian, Miller said he always thought 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome would be the final film in the franchise, but improvements in digital filmmaking and special effects inspired him to make Fury Road.
That film went on to become the highest-grossing movie in the series, and won six Academy Awards in 2016, making it an easy choice for Miller to write a spin-off prequel based on Charlize Theron’s Furiosa character.
However, because it’s set a number of years before the events of Fury Road, the director needed a younger actor in the central role, and was convinced to cast the Queen’s Gambit star after watching her in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho.
Furiosa follows Taylor-Joy’s character as she seeks revenge for trauma inflicted by the cruel Dementus, played brilliantly against type by Hemsworth, who has spent years playing the superhero, Thor.
Miller said the Aussie actor invested considerable time in fleshing out the film’s villain, and the result is a fascinating and complicated character.
As you’d expect from a Mad Max film, there’s also a cornucopia of wildly pimped vehicles, visceral action and lots of unforgiving wasteland.
Only this time Miller was able to make his movie in the outback of regional New South Wales, after unseasonable rainfall and a wildflower bloom forced him to shoot Fury Road in the Namibian desert.
The NSW Government and the Australian screen industry certainly aren’t complaining, with the production estimated to have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to the local economy.
Fans will see if that investment paid off when Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga hits Australian cinema screens on May 24.
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