Al Bilad newspaper “Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga” has its world premiere at Cannes – 2024-03-26 10:21:47

Nine years after Mad Max: Freedom Road, the iconic saga from Australian director, screenwriter and producer George Miller returns to the Croisette at the Cannes Film Festival, and
The long-awaited film “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” will be unveiled in the presence of the director and cast led by Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke, on the occasion of its out-of-competition screening at the Grand Lumière Theater at the Palais des Festivals on Wednesday, May 15, the second day of the festival. Among the official choices.

In 5 episodes and over the course of nearly five decades, George Miller has created a cathartic, even genius mythology, Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: Defiance (1981), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max “Fury Road (2015), Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga (2024)” is considered a film.
Mad Max serves as a chronicle of societal and environmental collapse, playing with genre codes to question these themes, initially fantastical and now brutally objective. Originally filmed in the Australian outback, Western on Wheels describes a dystopian world where speed and movement are as synonymous with the energy of life as death is a result of resource depletion, providing the viewer with a dose of adrenaline rarely equaled in film.
The heroine of the new saga that appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road, which received several Oscars, is actress Anya Taylor-Joy as the young Furiosa, who is trying to return home, despite the presence of many hostile armed gangs.
“I’ve had the idea for this prequel collection with me for over a decade,” George Miller said. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be back at Cannes with Anya, Chris and Tom for Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga.
Which will be the venue for the Grand Hall at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, which is equipped with the latest international display technologies.

George Miller is a unique and unclassifiable director who has moved from post-apocalyptic films to young audiences. He has presented many films such as Happy Feet and Babe and was twice a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury before becoming its president in the 69th session in 2016. In 2022, he presented “Three Thousand Years of Longing” with Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, out of competition.

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