Anya Taylor-Joy Fights Off Her Captors, and Chops Off Her Hair, in ‘Furiosa’ Trailer
The new Mad Max saga is set to premiere in theaters on May 24
Anya Taylor-Joy in 'Furiosa.' COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURE
Furiosa is back with a vengeance.
On Tuesday, Warner Bros. Pictures released the second trailer for Furiosa, the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel directed by George Miller. The film will delve into the backstory of Imperator Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy in this movie, and Charlize Theron in 2015’s Fury Road.
The trailer opens with Furiosa being snatched away. “As a child, my world was forever changed. My mother was magnificent. And he took it all from me,” she says, as her captor, the warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) appears.
“My childhood. My mother. I want them back. I want them back!” she exclaims.
The action-packed trailer sees Furiosa finding her way home as she tries to escape Dementus’ Biker Horde, driving massive trailers, crashing into cars, and taking aim at her captors. The end of the clip sees Taylor-Joy snipping all of her hair off as she makes her escape.
The film’s first trailer for Furiosa premiered at XXCP, Brazil’s Comic-Con last year, according to Variety. The event saw the film’s main actors and director in attendance.
“He’s a complicated individual. He’s a very violent, insane, brutal person that is born from the Wasteland, which is the world where the Mad Max saga takes place. He’s a product of his environment,” Hemsworth said of his character. “He has been birthed into a space where it’s kill or be killed. He’s learned to rule with an iron fist. There’s a charisma to him and it’s a very manipulative charisma.”
Furiosa is set to premiere in theaters May 24 with an IMAX release. Tom Burke, Nathan Jones, Angus Sampson, and Alyla Browne also appear in the film.
Furiosa is the fifth film in the Mad Max series, and follows the saga’s big return in 2015 after 30 years, Mad Max: Fury Road. The first Mad Max dropped in 1979, with sequels following in 1981 and 1985. Miller is already at work on a sixth film, Mad Max: The Wasteland, which will be a sequel to Fury Road.
“How to describe the brutal and brilliant cinematic fireball that director George Miller hurls at us in Mad Max: Fury Road? Try hell on wheels, given the vehicular obsession that drives the film,” read a Rolling Stone review of the 2015 film.
From Rolling Stone US.
