Anya Taylor-Joy's Furiosa emerges as an embodiment of vengeance, endeavouring to vanquish her abductor Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) even as she struggles to find her way back to her childhood home in the action-packed trailer of George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the spinoff and prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
Dropped by production house Warner Bros. Pictures on Tuesday, the two-minute-26-second-long trailer begins with Biblical echoes. Young Furiosa (Alyla Browne) gets kidnapped from the Green Place of Many Mothers by a group of marauding bikers while trying to pluck an apple from a tree. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they reach the Citadel where two leaders — Dementus and The Immortan Joe — vie for supremacy. The screen fades to black and we meet the Imperator Furiosa who has grown up with wrath and vengeance boiling inside her.
The trailer features stunning landscapes and jarring visuals, including that of a human skull getting crushed underneath the tires of a racing bike. “She’s from a place of abundance,” says a sage-like figure of Furiosa as the camera pans to Dementus commanding his group. “My mother...my childhood...I want them back,” Furiosa is heard saying, setting the stage for her face-off with the fierce Warlord of the dystopian setting.
As the atmosphere intensifies, bikes are crushed underneath trucks, vehicles pitchpole, gigantic structures topple, bullets are fired from every direction and metal shards rain down high cliffs. A clip shows Furiosa shaving her head as we hear a reverberating voiceover, “There will always be war...But to get home Furiosa fought the world.” The trailer ends with the visual of a car speeding across the wasteland as Furiosa stands atop a sand dune, locking eyes with Dementus.
According to the official synopsis, the new feature from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smash Mad Max: Fury Road.
The fifth film in the Mad Max franchise, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is slated to hit the theatres in Australia on May 23 and in the US on May 24. The trailer confirmed that the standalone action adventure will also be screening in IMAX.
