News on the Fury Road : "The Wasteland" & "Furiosa"

[Taipan]

Alright, so according to my inside info, things are really revving up for Furiosa this year.

It was obviously to be expected, I just didn't expect it to happen so early. Initial shooting starts mid-2021, mostly because they're trying to catch some tax breaks for this year. Without giving away too much - there will be a LOT of bikes this time around. The focus is also on the War Rig as they're going to re-use the ones currently in storage. Of course there will be new vehicles built and I'm 100% expecting a new kickass vehicle built for the main antagonist along with his armada because the nature of the film kind of requires it.

[biolumen]

From an extensive interview with Guy Norris.

While the year has barely begun, Norris' schedule is already full. An edge of excitement creeps into his voice when he discusses, somewhat guardedly, an upcoming Australian production.

"In 2021, our next big project is the prequel to Mad Max Fury Road called Furiosa, again with George Miller directing," he says. "If you can believe it, Furiosa will be twice the scale and size of Fury Road. We will be shooting it all in Australia, and it will be great for the local industry."

https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/71 ... fury-road/

[Taipan]

One more thing:

Car building apparently not a priority at this point. Two reasons.

1. There won't be a lot of them anyway.

2. It seems like the film will be shot in continuity starting with the scenes showing the Green Place. IIRC the crew were looking at Darwin's rainforest for those scenes, so no fancy vehicles seem to be required for that.

[DetritusMaximus]

This is good news!

I find this curious..

"Furiosa will be twice the scale and size of Fury Road."

That sounds ambitious.

[Taipan]

"Furiosa will be twice the scale and size of Fury Road."

That sounds ambitious.

It does. But it's true. Fury Road was advertised as a recount of a 'Road War'.
Furiosa deals with "Wasteland Wars".

That's a pretty good indication of the scale of this film.

[henry2]

I'm so excited for FURIOSA! And don't forgot Miller's THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING, it should be another great film I'm really looking forward to!

[Turbofurball]

... there will be a LOT of bikes this time around.

Now this I can get on board with

[Morrisminor]

The dice are rollin'...

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[biolumen]

A story I can’t wait to see in a cinema’: George Miller to shoot a new Mad Max

By Garry Maddox
April 19, 2021 — 11.14am

The Mad Max series is roaring back to life.

After the resolution of an ugly legal dispute with Hollywood studio Warner Bros, director George Miller is preparing to shoot a fifth movie, Furiosa, in the celebrated action series in NSW.

It is a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, with Anya Taylor-Joy, the breakout star of the hit series The Queen’s Gambit, playing a younger version of the heroic warrior played by Charlize Theron.

The cast will also include Chris Hemsworth, who is filming Thor: Love and Thunder in Sydney, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, best-known for Aquaman and The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the movie would be “the largest film ever to be filmed” in NSW – bringing at least $350 million into the state’s economy and involving 850 jobs.

Furiosa has attracted filming incentives from both the state and federal governments, including the reinstated 40 per cent tax break known as the producer offset that was announced earlier this month.

Miller has just finished filming the fantasy drama Three Thousand Years of Longing, with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, in Sydney.

He will then return to the Mad Max series more than 40 years after the first instalment – which starred Mel Gibson as a damaged cop roaming the lawless Australian wasteland – with a shoot that will take place in Sydney and elsewhere in the state including Broken Hill.

Fury Road, the fourth instalment, famously took 12 years to get made with three major delays and a switch of continents to Namibia when heavy rain made the desert around Broken Hill too much like a garden to pass for a post-apocalyptic landscape.

But it was a triumph when it was released in 2015.

As well as taking $US375 million ($485 million) at the worldwide box office, Fury Road was widely acclaimed and won six Oscars as well as being nominated for best picture and director.

That triumph soured when production company Kennedy Miller Mitchell became mired in a bitter court battle with Warner Bros over unpaid earnings that threatened to block the production of both Furiosa and another planned sequel.

Delighted to be getting to shoot the new instalment close to home, Miller said the dispute had been resolved with new leadership at the studio.

Since we started Fury Road I think there’s been six different regimes at Warner Bros,” he said. “Now it’s stabilised very much and they’re able to basically pay attention coherently to the films they want to make and this is one of them.”

Miller described Furiosa as a saga.

“Whereas Fury Road essentially happened over three days and two nights, this happens over many years,” he said. ”You try to make films that are ‘uniquely familiar’.

“This will be familiar to those people who know Mad Max, and in particular Fury Road, but also it will be unique.”

Miller plans to shoot Furiosa next year once he finishes post-production on Three Thousand Years of Longing.

He had planned to shoot a key sequence before June 30 but the federal government’s decision to reverse a planned winding back of the producer offset to 30 per cent has taken off the pressure.

“We had vehicles built, stunts prepared and we were well into that process,” he said.

While many big movies have been heading to streaming services, Miller said “this is a story that I can’t wait to see in a cinema”.

Hemsworth said that having grown up watching Miller’s iconic series, joining the cast was the biggest “pinch myself moment” in his acting career.

“It’s a huge honour,” he said. “A lot of pressure but exciting pressure that is certainly motivating.”

Furiosa continues the boom in Hollywood-backed production since Australia became one of the world’s most COVID-safe filming locations.

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/m ... 57kbr.html

[Immortan Joecutter]

Awesome news. Miller is not fooling around. I can't wait.