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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a 2024 Australian^[5] post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller, who wrote the screenplay with Nico Lathouris. It is the fifth installment in the Mad Max franchise, serving as both a prequel and spin-off to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and focuses on the Fury Road character Imperator Furiosa. The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Alyla Browne as younger versions of Furiosa (originally portrayed by Charlize Theron), alongside Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.

Set 15 to 20 years before the events of Fury Road, in a desert wasteland where warlords fight over the last remaining sources of water, food, weapons, and gasoline, Furiosa traces the young title character’s life from her kidnapping by the forces of warlord Dementus (Hemsworth) to her revenge on the warlord for the loss of her mother. For over a decade, she struggles to survive as a slave and, eventually, a trusted lieutenant of the Citadel’s cult leader, Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme), and his military commander, Praetorian Jack (Burke).

Miller initially intended to shoot Furiosa back-to-back with Fury Road, but the former spent several years in development hell amidst salary disputes with Warner Bros. Pictures, Fury Road‘s distributor. Several crew members from Fury Road returned for Furiosa, including composer Tom Holkenborg, costume designer Jenny Beavan, editor Margaret Sixel (Miller’s wife), and screenwriter Lathouris. Filming took place in Australia from June to October 2022.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2024. It was released worldwide, including Australia, on 23 May 2024 and in the United States the following day. The film received positive reviews from film critics but failed at the box office, grossing only $161 million worldwide, so far, against a budget of $168 million.^[a]

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Plot

In a dystopian future, Australia is a radioactive wasteland and the Green Place of Many Mothers is one of the last remaining areas with fresh water and agriculture. Raiders discover the Green Place while two children, Furiosa and Valkyrie, are picking peaches. Furiosa tries to sabotage their motorcycles, but the raiders capture her as a prize for their leader, Dementus of the Biker Horde. Furiosa’s mother, Mary, pursues them to the Horde’s camp, killing all but one raider. The last raider delivers Furiosa to Dementus, but Furiosa mortally wounds him before he can reveal the Green Place’s location. Mary sneaks into the camp and rescues Furiosa, but Dementus tracks them down. The mother stays back to buy Furiosa time to escape and gives her a peach pit to remember her by, but Furiosa refuses to leave Mary. Dementus forces Furiosa to watch her mother’s crucifixion. Haunted by his family’s death, he adopts an unwilling Furiosa as his daughter, hoping she will lead him to the Green Place.

Some time after, Dementus besieges the Citadel, another settlement with fresh water and agriculture. However, the Horde is repelled by the War Boys, the fanatical army of Citadel warlord Immortan Joe. Dementus changes course, using a Trojan Horse strategy to capture Gastown, an oil refinery that supplies the Citadel with gasoline. At peace negotiations, Joe recognizes Dementus’s authority over Gastown and increases its supplies of food and water in exchange for the Horde’s physician and Furiosa, who has tattooed a star chart to the Green Place on her left arm to find her way home. Afterward, Joe imprisons Furiosa with his stable of “wives” inside a vault. After Joe’s son, Rictus, shows an attraction toward her, Furiosa devises a plan to escape. One night, Rictus breaks Furiosa out of Joe’s vault to sexually assault her, but she slips from his grasp using a wig made from her own hair and disappears.

Disguised as a mute teenage boy, Furiosa works her way up the ranks of Joe’s men for over a decade. She helps build the “War Rig”, a heavily armed supply tanker that can withstand raider attacks in the lawless Wasteland. She plans to escape by hiding on the Rig when Joe sends his top driver, Praetorian Jack, on a supply run. Disillusioned by Dementus’s callousness, his lieutenant, The Octoboss, goes rogue and launches an air assault on the Rig. His Mortiflyers massacre the Rig’s entire crew and destroy Furiosa’s hidden motorcycle, but Furiosa and Jack team up to defeat them. Furiosa tries to carjack the Rig and drive home, but Jack easily thwarts her. However, he recognizes her potential and offers to train her to escape if she helps him rebuild his crew; Furiosa becomes Jack’s second-in-command and is promoted to Praetorian. She and Jack, bond and resolve to escape together. They see an opportunity when Joe decides to attack Gastown, which Dementus has mismanaged to near-ruin. Joe orders Furiosa and Jack to collect weapons and ammunition from the Bullet Farm, an allied mining facility.

However, Dementus ambushes them when they arrive. Furiosa and Jack barely escape, and Furiosa’s left arm is severely injured. Dementus chases them down and tortures Jack to death. Furiosa escapes her chains by severing her own injured arm, sacrificing her star map to escape. A lone man watches from afar as Furiosa struggles back to the Citadel,^[b] where she and Joe’s aide, The People Eater, form a strategy. Dementus is lured into a trap and the War Boys crush the Horde in a 40-day war. Having lost her path home, Furiosa shaves her head again, replaces her arm with a mechanical prosthetic, and pursues the fleeing Dementus.

After an extended chase, Furiosa subdues Dementus in the desert, but he taunts her, saying revenge will not make her whole. In a voiceover, the narrator states that Furiosa imprisoned Dementus at the Citadel and used his living body as fertilizer to grow a peach tree from her mother’s seed. Joe promotes Furiosa to “Imperator” and gives her command of a new War Rig. She meets Joe’s five remaining wives in the vault where Joe once held her prisoner. The night before another supply run, the “Five Wives” hide in Furiosa’s Rig.^[c]

Cast of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa^[16]

Chris Hemsworth as Dementus,

Tom Burke as Praetorian Jack, the commander of the Citadel’s first War Rig^[17]

Lachy Hulme as Immortan Joe, the warlord leader of the Citadel and enemy of the Biker Horde^[17]

John Howard as The People Eater, Joe’s advisor and military strategist, and the future ruler of Gastown in Mad Max: Fury Road^[17]

Angus Sampson as The Organic Mechanic, Dementus’s and later Joe’s personal physician^[17]

Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus, Joe’s muscular but dim-witted son^[17]

Josh Helman as Scrotus, Joe’s psychologically unstable son^[17][d][e]

Charlee Fraser as Mary Jabassa, Furiosa’s mother^[17]

Dylan Adonis as Valkyrie, Furiosa’s childhood friend^[22][f]

Elsa Pataky as Mr. Norton, a deformed survivor who joins the Biker Horde^[23]

David Collins as Smeg, Dementus’s henchman, dance proclaimer, and messenger^[25]

Clarence Ryan as Black Thumb, Praetorian Jack’s mechanic on the War Rig^[27]

Quaden Bayles as War Pup^[29]

Lee Perry as The Bullet Farmer, ruler of the Bullet Farm and the Citadel’s arms supplier^[22][h]

Archive footage of Richard Carter as The Bullet Farmer from Mad Max: Fury Road is used during the end credits^[18]

Daniel Webber as War Boy^[17]

Jacob Tomuri as Max Rockatansky,^[i] a loner living in his V8 Interceptor who witnesses Furiosa return to the Citadel; he later helps Furiosa and the “Five Wives” defeat Immortan Joe and his army, and claim control of the Citadel in Mad Max: Fury Road (Tomuri served as Tom Hardy‘s stunt double during the filming of Fury Road)

Archive footage of Hardy as Max from Mad Max: Fury Road is used during the end credits^[18]

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