The sequel to “Fury Road”, the fifth installment of the “Mad Max” saga, will be as rich in action scenes as its predecessor. A 15-minute action sequence took 78 days to film.
The film Furiosafifth part of the saga Mad Maxwill be as rich in action scenes as its predecessor Fury Roadwarned the film’s producer Doug Mitchell in an interview this week with the magazine Total Film.
Filming a “15-minute action scene lasted 78 days” and required 200 stuntmen to be on set every day, he revealed. “It was important that it be this long,” said Anya Taylor-Joy, who plays Furiosa.
“We see her skills in action during a battle and it’s very important to understand how resourceful and gutsy Furiosa is. It’s the longest sequence we shot for the film,” she elaborated.
Out of competition in Cannes
Furiosa will be presented in preview at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 15 at the Lumière theater, in the presence of actors Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke. The film, which will be released in theaters on May 22 in France, will be presented out of competition.
Furiosa looks back at the origins of the heroine Furiosa, who appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road in the guise of Charlize Theron. Captured by a horde of bikers led by the warlord Dementus, she will try to find her way home.
Furiosa will be “different” from Fury Road, promised George Miller. “A film should not be a repetition of what we have just done. It must be ‘singularly familiar,’ as I like to say.”
“The idea of this prequel has been in my head for more than ten years,” George Miller also indicated in a press release from the Cannes Film Festival. “There is no better place than the Croisette to discover this film with audiences from around the world.”
