Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a 2024 post-apocalyptic action adventure film
Directed, co-written, and co-produced by George Miller.
The fifth installment in the Mad Max franchise, Furiosa serves as both a spin-off and prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), focusing on the character Imperator Furiosa, originally portrayed by Charlize Theron in Fury Road. The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the titular character, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, and Alyla Browne.
The film was released theatrically in Australia and India on 23 May 2024, and in the United States on 24 May 2024. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences, Taylor-Joy’s performance, and Miller’s direction.
The Mad Max franchise is a series of post-apocalyptic action films directed or co-directed by filmmaker George Miller. Here’s a list of the movies in order of release:
- Mad Max (1979): The first film in the series introduces us to Max Rockatansky, a police officer pursuing a vicious motorcycle gang who murders his wife and child in a future world ravaged by resource scarcity. Mel Gibson plays Max in this film.
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)(released in the United States as The Road Warrior): In this sequel, Max is a drifter who is forced to barter for gasoline in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. He ends up getting involved in a struggle between a community of settlers and a group of marauders. Mel Gibson reprises his role as Max.
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985): Max stumbles upon a bartertown run by a child-prophet and gets entangled in their social order. Mel Gibson again stars as Max.
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): Tom Hardy takes over the role of Max Rockatansky in this action-packed film where he teams up with Imperator Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron, to escape a tyrannical leader who hoards water.
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024): This prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road focuses on the origin story of Imperator Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy in this film.
The films can be watched in order of release to follow the overall story or chronologically to see how the world descends into chaos.
