George Miller’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Prequel ‘Furiosa’ Begins Filming
George Miller's 'Mad Max: Fury Road' prequel "Furiosa" has started filming.
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Mad Max movie, about a woman not named Max. Okay. It's not like the "lore" is all that interesting. It's a late 70s hodgepodge of existing post-apocalyptic short-stories and movies with explosions and cars and stuff, not some grand saga about the human spirit.
Can't wait for the Wonder Woman spin-off movie, 'Super Man'.
Can't wait for the Wonder Woman spin-off movie, 'Super Man'.
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I'm excited. Although I highly doubt that it will be as good as Fury Road.
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Might be. Fury Road was in 2015. Michael Bay did four Transformers movies in the same amount of time and -- no disrespect to Mad Max which I like a lot more -- this franchise is on the same level. I can't fathom what's taking so long and why they're slowing things down further with a spinoff
I would have liked this more as a sequel than a prequel. Just seems completely unnecessary to be honest, especially 7+ years later. For that just make a new character, we know where Furiosa's going to end up anyways.
Mad Max works, where so many other such 90's classics don't past the first entry, because it's got the almost episodic and self contained approach to sequels.
Taking that away, and focusing in on a character we know the fate of, and so who, by necessity of that fate, can't be that hugely divergent and interesting as a brand new character could be.
I mean I love Fury Road, it's a film that almost uniquely managed to subvert my expectations in a positive manner, by starting out as well madea critique of toxic masculinity, only to turn around and push radical feminism on to the same pyre, all while being a bloody awesome action movie, but that's it, the well is dry. Move on.
I mean it's going to be really weird to have a main character, who we're meant to root for, yet we know her entire backstory, motivation and future plans are based on a lie.
How are we meant to get invested in what she does, when we're aware that it will all end up with her on her knees in the sand, screaming at the sky, before some random dude she just met jogs up and gives her a better idea to follow?
Taking that away, and focusing in on a character we know the fate of, and so who, by necessity of that fate, can't be that hugely divergent and interesting as a brand new character could be.
I mean I love Fury Road, it's a film that almost uniquely managed to subvert my expectations in a positive manner, by starting out as well madea critique of toxic masculinity, only to turn around and push radical feminism on to the same pyre, all while being a bloody awesome action movie, but that's it, the well is dry. Move on.
I mean it's going to be really weird to have a main character, who we're meant to root for, yet we know her entire backstory, motivation and future plans are based on a lie.
How are we meant to get invested in what she does, when we're aware that it will all end up with her on her knees in the sand, screaming at the sky, before some random dude she just met jogs up and gives her a better idea to follow?
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Really enjoyed Fury Road and Charlize Theron is always good, but at the same time, I'd rather just have a Mad Max movie or a sequel versus a prequel.
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How fucking long has it been since the collapse in Mad Max anyway?
This film is supposed to take place over the course of 15 years, you expect me to believe that psychos have been ravaging this desert wasteland for over a decade with no resources and they haven't wiped themselves out?
This film is supposed to take place over the course of 15 years, you expect me to believe that psychos have been ravaging this desert wasteland for over a decade with no resources and they haven't wiped themselves out?
The whole thing is basically more of backdrop for the exploration of human character and sociatal norms tested past breaking point.
The setting doesn't really need to make sense, just be as much of antagonist as the human villians.
It's another reason doing a prequel that tries to explain things and flesh out the history of the world doesn't make sense.
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If we're gonna be doing prequels and shit, then these questions are gonna come up.
It was enough to have the undefined cataclysmic event centered in the past to build a future off of.
This is going to be something different. It's hard to buy the setting being an antagonist when everyone seems to overcome it as easily as your average mutant psycho from borderlands.
I know I am in the minority but didn't like Fury Road. Was a stupid plot that made zero sense. Stunts were decent and Hardy wasn't bad as Max, but I could have lived never seeing it and be fine. Furiosa wasn't that interesting of a character nor were any of the three Warlords.
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Cautiously optimistic as I LOVED Fury Road. Loved the video game and the older movies as well. Maybe we'll get a Lord Humongous origin story.
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That's ezra miller, not George Miller. George Miller made the star wars songs
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Good to know that the project is still alive...but I am not sure what we're looking at here. A statue?
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A bit cautious about this one. I don't see the need for a prequel backstory for Furiosa when everything about her was said and done in Fury Road. But I like Anya Taylor Joy and more importantly it's George Miller directing again. Fury Road proved that even in his 70s the man is still a capable filmmaker who hasn't lost his touch. I'm eager what he has in store for us.
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Is it me but does it again looks too clean (same problem i had with fallout)?
Yup. Between the 'just painted' props and the CG it does give it a 'clean' look. Which is funny since everyone/thing is dusty lol
Still doesnt move the needle in general for me. But I know Fury Road fans will eat it up. Hopefully this story is better here, as that was my complaint with Fury road.
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I have really liked some things Anya has done, but I think she kinda also has no range as an actor. Like what she does can be really good in something like Queen's Gambit, but then you put her in Peaky Blinders and it looks like she's never acted before.
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Has a really strong green screen and post-production CGI look which makes the whole thing look cheap. Seems like the action will be good(it better be) and yet it's like...I'd rather be watching Max.
Also the choice to highlight her eyes like that. I guess Miller likes far apart gecko eyes or something. =S
Also the choice to highlight her eyes like that. I guess Miller likes far apart gecko eyes or something. =S
Fury Road is famous for its anti-CGI approach. What's with all of the CGI in that trailer? Did they not have enough money this time around for actual stunts?
Uhm... lol what was that.
I'd be on board with a Furiosa movie, in general. And I loved Fury Road, really like the action and the style, down for that again. But MAN, in this fucked up, brutal and rough, unforgiving world.... throwing in a skinny, weak, tiny, fragile little girl, and the movie showing her doing all that badass stuff, trying to convince me that she's totally strong and kicking ass - it's too much. It looks completely laughable and breaks the whole movie.
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I'm down with it. I like ATJ. She may be unconventional-looking, but I don't think she is a bad actress by any stretch of the imagination and certainly can carry a film/series as evidenced by Emma & Queens Gambit.
Being it's set in the universe of Mad Max I wouldn't take it too seriously as far as realism goes. Even though Tom Hardy was a bit of a nonentity as Max in Fury Road, as a cinematic spectacle I enjoyed the hell out of it at the local Imax when it came out, and this (along with Dune Part 2) is certainly one I would go and watch on the big screen just to take it all in.
I'm down with it. I like ATJ. She may be unconventional-looking, but I don't think she is a bad actress by any stretch of the imagination and certainly can carry a film/series as evidenced by Emma & Queens Gambit.
Being it's set in the universe of Mad Max I wouldn't take it too seriously as far as realism goes. Even though Tom Hardy was a bit of a nonentity as Max in Fury Road, as a cinematic spectacle I enjoyed the hell out of it at the local Imax when it came out, and this (along with Dune Part 2) is certainly one I would go and watch on the big screen just to take it all in.
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I'd love a big blockbuster movie where pretty, slim girls try to fight buff dudes ... and just get obliterated, lol. Heck, I'd kill Furiosa or Black Widow just by sitting down on them
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Definitely not a budget issue. Though Miller's nearly an octogenarian and Fury Road was a very difficult shoot, so possible he may just not have it in him anymore to do it the old way. Or perhaps he just gave in and "modernized". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then Fury Road will be a one-movie-only miracle, which is what I expected anyway. You don't catch lightining in a bottle like that twice.
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