Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga set to premiere at Cannes
George Miller’s follow-up to Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, will make world premiere at May festival.The eagerly anticipated action adventure Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is set to premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival.The director George Miller has returned to the world of his Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road with a prequel exploring the origins of Furiosa, a character previously played by Charlize Theron. The prequel stars Anya Taylor-Joy in the role with Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke also starring.The idea of this prequel has been with me for over a decade,” said Miller in a statement. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to the Festival de Cannes – along with Anya, Chris and Tom [Burke] – to share Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. There is no better place than La Croisette to experience this film with audiences on the world stage.In 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road also premiered at the festival and went on to win six Oscars and make $380m worldwide. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called it “extravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and entirely over the top” in his review.Since then Miller also premiered Three Thousand Years of Longing at the festival.
