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

[AquaCola]

I presume Bond was delayed for a year after they saw the box office of Tenet. Films studios can just sit on films but that poses a big problem next year. Anything that's in editing at the moment and ready for next year will have to compete with films postponed from this year. Then we have the problem of studios trying to film this and next year. It's just not possible. Rough times ahead! I wonder how well DUNE will do.

[biolumen]

‘Mad Max’ Spinoff ‘Furiosa’ In The Works At Warners With George Miller Directing & Anya Taylor-Joy In Title Role; Chris Hemsworth & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Along For Ride

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Anthony D'Alessandro
Editorial Director/Box Office Editor

George Miller told Deadline about Furiosa having a deep backstory in the Mad Max universe, and now we’ll finally get to see it: Warner Bros. is in advanced development with Furiosa, a spinoff feature of Miller’s multi-Oscar winning blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road about the renegade character (played in that film by Oscar winner Charlize Theron) who was a notable force in Max’s survival in the desert.

The standalone movie will reveal the origins of Furiosa and be played by Glass actress Anya Taylor-Joy in the title role. The movie will track the genesis of Furiosa before she teamed up with Max Rockatansky in Fury Road. Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will also star in a movie that Miller will also direct, co-write and produce with his longtime Oscar-nominated producing partner Doug Mitchell. Miller’s own Australian-based Kennedy Miller Mitchell banner will produce.

Miller penned the script with Mad Max: Fury Road co-writer Nico Lathouris. Miller’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes such longtime Australian collaborators as production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, sound mixer Ben Osmo, and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, each of whom won an Oscar for their work on “Mad Max: Fury Road,” as well as first assistant director PJ Voeten and second unit director and stunt coordinator Guy Norris.

Taylor-Joy recently finished filming Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and is currently filming Robert Eggers’ The Northman. She was recently seen as the lead in the romantic comedy Emma, based on the Jane Austen novel. Her additional features include the sci-fi thrillers Split and Glass from M. Night Shyamalan. Beginning later this month, she can be seen starring as a chess prodigy in the miniseries The Queen’s Gambit.

Hemsworth is star of Marvel’s Avengers and Thor franchise; the latest sequel Thor: Love & Thunder filming next March in Australia and in pre-production currently.

Abdul-Mateen II starred as the iconic Super-Villain Black Manta in James Wan’s billion-dollar blockbuster Aquaman. He is currently filming the fourth installment in The Matrix series and can be seen as Bobby Seale in Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, in theaters now and streaming on Friday. Next up, he will star in Universal/MGM’s Candyman, releasing 2021. His other work includes roles in the horror-thriller Us, The Greatest Showman. Abdul-Mateen recently won an Emmy Award for his performance in the acclaimed limited series Watchmen.

https://deadline.com/2020/10/furiosa-ma ... 234596503/

I suppose Miller is still filming 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' first.

[Immortan Joecutter]

Yes yess yesss!!
This is the best news in a long long time. I think Anya Taylor-Joy is a good choice, killer cast btw

The new Oscar Diversity Rules for Best Picture are met already

[henry2]

Yes! I couldn't be happier with this news. I love that Miller is directing, writing and producing again! I'm also really looking forward to THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING which could have been coming out later this year if it wasn't for the virus.

[Taipan]

Guys, cool your jets.

None of it is really news, it's just regurgitated stuff we already know spiced up with some rumors parading as 'breaking news'.
Wait until an official statement from the production crew comes out.

[biolumen]

Variety ran with this news too.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/mad- ... 234802781/

[biolumen]

Someone please clear up some confusion on my part.

Is this Furiosa movie one of the two movies Miller and Mitchell said they had ready to go after Fury Road in that big Financial Times interview they gave some years back, or is it something else entirely.

Also, am I correct to assume that whatever future Mad Max films Miller has plans to make take place prior to the events in Fury Road. In other words, there are no sequels in the works.

[Taipan]

Chris Hemsworth confirmed on his Instagram that he's indeed going to be a part of this next film.

https://www.instagram.com/chrishemsworth/?hl=en

[Taipan]

Someone please clear up some confusion on my part.

Is this Furiosa movie one of the two movies Miller and Mitchell said they had ready to go after Fury Road in that big Financial Times interview they gave some years back, or is it something else entirely.

Also, am I correct to assume that whatever future Mad Max films Miller has plans to make take place prior to the events in Fury Road. In other words, there are no sequels in the works.

This upcoming film "Furiosa" is one of the two stories Miller and his writers came up with while they were working on Fury Road.
"Furiosa" was originally supposed to be Fury Road's tie-in anime. After that idea fell through this same film was adapted to become a live action film.
And this is what we're going to get next. It's the same thing.

Both 'Furiosa' and "Wasteland" are prequels to Fury Road.
Furiosa takes place over the span of about a decade since Furiosa was kidnapped from the Green Place up to the point she becomes the Imperator.
"Wasteland" takes place a few years prior to Fury Road and focuses on Max.

All three films, Fury Road, Furiosa and Wasteland pretty much take place in a self contained world we know from Fury Road, so a lot of familiar faces and places will show up and character relationships will be revealed.

There are no sequels to Fury Road as such.

[AquaCola]

Awesome news that we have a cast! As far as I know Chris Hemsworth is playing Dr. Dementus, Anya Taylor-Joy is obviously playing a young Furiosa and Yahya Abdul-Manteen is playing the first War Rig Imperator.

With covid we can expect The Matrix 4 and Thor 4 to be delayed so filming taking place in 2022/2023? Looking at a 2025 at the earliest if all goes well!