Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Movie | Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke | Facts & Review.

[Music] not anym they've gone R contact [Music] [Music] that's engine two [Music] the CLS short H clams [Music] e e e e furiosa Amad Max Saga is a post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller who wrote the screenplay with Nik lath thorus it is the fifth installment in Miller's Mad Max franchise and the first not focused on series protagonist Max rockatansky instead acting as both a spin-off prequel to Mad Max Fury Road and an origin story for the Fury Road character furiosa portrayed by Ana Taylor joy and alila brown in the prequel set to years before the events of Fury Road the film follows the title character's life for over a decade from her kidnapping by the forces of warlord dementus Chris Hemsworth to her Ascension to the rank of emperator Tom Burke also stars as petorian Jack a military commander who befriends furiosa several Fury roadcast members return in supporting roles including John Howard Nathan Jones and Angus Samson reprising their characters Miller initially intended to shoot furiosa back toback 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 leus producer Doug Mitchell composer Tom holkenborg costume designer Jenny beaven Andor Margaret six Miller's wife filming took place in Australia from June to October furiosa aad Max Saga premiered at the at can's Film Festival on May it was released theatrically in Australia on May and in the United States the following day the film received positive reviews from critics but became a box office bomb grossing only dollar million against its budget of million dollars plot decades after the apocalypse Australia is a radioactive Wasteland and the green place of many mothers is one of the 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 Mary furiosa's Mother pursues them to the hordes Camp killing all but one of the Raiders who brings furiosa to dementus furiosa mortally wounds the last Raider 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 dementus adopts an unwilling furiosa as his daughter hoping she will lead him to the green place but sometime after dementus besieges the Citadel another settlement with fresh water and agriculture however The Horde is repelled by the war boys the fanatical Army Army of Citadel warlord immortan Joe dementus changes course using a trojan horse strategy to capture Gast Town an oil refinery that supplies The Citadel with gasoline at peace negotiations Joe recognizes dement's authority over Gast town and increases its supplies of food and water in exchange for the hord'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 Rus shows an attraction towards her furiosa devises a plan to escape one night Rus breaks furiosa out of Joe's Vault to rape 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 PR torian jack on a supply run disillusioned by dement's callousness his Lieutenant the octob boss goes Rogue and launches an air assault on the rig his mortifiers Slaughter 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 pror tan she and Jack Bond and resolve to escape together they see an opportunity when Joe decides to attack Gast town which dementus has mismanaged to near ruin Joe orders furiosa and Jack to collect weapons and ammunition from the bullet farm and Allied Mining facility however dementus having already taken the farm ambushes them when they arrive furiosa and Jack barely escape and furiosa's left arm is 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 Mana watches from afar as furiosa struggles back to the Citadel where she and Joe's Aid the People Eater form a strategy to avoid a trap planned by dementus instead dementus himself is lured into a trap at the Citadel and the war boys Crush The Horde in a 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 the history man the film's narrator notes multiple accounts of dement's death before providing what he claims to be the true account furiosa imprisons dementus in the Citadel and uses his still living body as fertilizer to grow a peach tree from her mother's pit Joe promotes furiosa to imperator and gives her command of a new war rig she meets Joe's five breeder wives in the vault where Joe once held her prisoner the night before another Supply run the Five Wives hide in furiosa's rigb the cast Ana Taylor joy as furiosa alela brown portrays furiosa as a child and teenager archive footage of Charli Theron as the older furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the final scene and end CRS Chris Hemsworth as dementus the deranged warlord leader of the biker horde who abducted furiosa and eventual ruler of Gastown Tom Burke as petorian Jack the commander of the citadel's first war rig Lackey Holm as aort Joe the warlord leader of the Citadel and enemy of the biker horde archive footage of hu's burn as immortan Joe from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the ncrs Hol also portrays risdale pel dementus Lieutenant George schevzov as the historyman the film's narrator and expert in pre-apocalyptic history science and technology who serves dementus John Howard as the People Eater Joe's adviser and Military strategist and the future ruler of Gast town in madmax Fury Road Angus Samson as the organic mechanic dement's and later Joe's personal physician Nathan Jones as Rus erectus Joe's muscular but dimwitted son Josh Helman as scrotus Joe's psychologically unstable STI Charlie Fraser as Mary jaasa furiosa's Mother Dylan Adonis as Valkyrie furiosa's childhood fandi elsapataky as Mr Norton a deformed Survivor who joins the biker horde padaki also portrays a vuvalini general goren d clut as the octobus the leader of the mortifiers biker gang who Begins the film as dement's temporary Ally David Collins as smag dement's henchman dance proclaimer and Messenger matus as Fang dementus as henchman Clarence Ryan as black thumb pretorian Jack's mechanic on the war rig Brian prets as chumbucket a hunchbacked auto mechanic at the Citadel quiden Bales as War pup Lee Perry as the bullet farmer ruler of the bullet farm and the citadel's arm supplyer archive footage of Richard Carter as the bullet farmer from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the ncrs Daniel Weber as War boy Jacob tamuri as Max rockatansky ha loner living in his V Interceptor who witnesses furiosa return to the Citadel he later helps furiosa and the Five Wives defeat Orton Joe and his army and claim control of the Citadel in Mad Max Fury Road to mury 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 ncrs Additionally the NCS are intercut with archive footage from Mad Max Fury Road in which Nicholas Hol Rosie Huntington Whitley Zoe Kravitz Riley Kio ABY Lee and Courtney Eaton appear as nucks The Splendid Ang garad toast The Knowing capable the dag and Cheeto The Fragile respectively the latter five are also portrayed by standin in silhouette during the film's final scene to's production and pre-production director George Miller while filming Mad Max Fury Road pictured in director George Miller and co-writer Nik lathora spent over years writing the script for Mad Max Fury Road and develop backstories for every character particularly co-protagonist imperator furiosa they eventually wrote a furiosa centered screenplay which actress Charli Theron used as a reference for her performance in Fury Road according to to Miller furiosa probably takes place after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome but the Mad Max franchise has no strict chronology the first trailer of the film released on November stated that furiosa takes place years after the collapse in July Miller announced plans to shoot Fury Road back toback with a live-action prequel film entitled Mad Max furiosa but during pre-production it was decided to only shoot Fury Road at one point Miller and lethor hoped to turn the furiosa screenplay into an anim film directed by mahiro maida who had previously worked on the animatrix Neon Genesis Evangelion and Porco Roso in November Miller's production company filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros over a Fury Road salary dispute which delayed the production of any additional entries in the franchise in July Miller revealed that a furiosa film was still being planned in addition to two Mad Max sequels by March Miller and Warner Bros settled their lawsuit and began casting the furiosa prequel which Miller intended to make after after 3,000 years of lawning it was reported that the film would take place over a time frame of years depicting furiosa's backstory of how she was displaced from her home and spent her life trying to get back multiple Fury road crew members agreed to return for the film including composer Tom holkenborg costume designer Jenny be or Margaret sixel makeup designer Leslie vanderwal production designer Colin Gibson no relation to original Mad maxstar Mel Gibson and sound mixer Ben osmo Beav sixel vanderwalt Gibson and Mo had all previously won Academy Awards for their work on Fury Road in Miller said that the semi-retired John seal had agreed to return as cinematographer but seal retired after shooting Miller's 3,000 years of longing explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his grandchildren Simon Dugen took over as furiosa's cinematographer Village Road show pictures which had co-financed Fury Road was cred in initial marketing material for furiosa with its involvement also acknowledged by an official press kit related to the film and a press release by the can's Film Festival however following its Premiere all mentions of the company were omitted from promotions and the film itself in May a box office report by deadline Hollywood stated that Warner Bros is all in on furiosa and financed the bulk of the film's budget without co-finance years such as Village Road Show most likely the result of a Content dispute related to Warner Bros simultaneous release strategy followed in the online news site also reported that domain entertainment a private Equity Fund that co-financed other Warner Bros Productions like Aquaman and the lost kingdom and Wonka in was listed in the opening CRS after the Warner Bros a logo and casting top Anya Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth bottom Tom Burke and Lackey Hol Miller sought to cast a younger actress for the role in lie of using the Aging technology for Theon explaining that the technology still leaves an uncanny valley effect theen admitted that the decision was a little heartbreaking for sure but understood Miller's rationale in March during the co lockdown in Australia Miller auditioned several actresses over Skype for the furiosa role in October Ana Taylor Joy Chris Hemsworth and yaaya Abdul matin II were cast although Abdul matine later dropped out due to a scheduling conflict Miller chose Taylor Joy after seeing her performance in an early cut of the film last night in SoHo and auditioning her with the mad as hell monologue quoted by the character Howard Beal portrayed by Peter Finch from Sydney lumet's Network Edgar Wright the director of last night in SoHo told Miller to do yourself a favor and grab the opportunity to work with her Miller felt that there's a kind of timelessness to her there's a mystery to her and yet she's accessible Taylor Joy received advice from Nicholas Holt who had previously portrayed nucks in Fury Road and worked alongside her in the menu according to Goran D clut who portrayed the octobus Miller asks every actor who auditions with him to try out the mad as hell monologue Emsworth an Australian had grown up watching ing the Mad Max films in he had previously applied for the title role in Fury Road that eventually went to Tom Hardy Hemsworth later explained that he was not a big enough star at the time to earn the role his most notable role Thor had not yet debuted in the film of the same name to accurately portray resource scarcity in the Wasteland Hemsworth cut his calorie intake in half compared to when he prepares for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film describing and elaborating on his character's motivations Hemsworth said he's a pretty horrible individual in Miller cast alila Brown as a young furiosa she had previously worked with Miller on 3,000 years of lawning Miller said that she reminded him of a young furiosa and that she impressed him while doing the splits on set Tom Burke joined the cast in the Autumn of as pretorian Jack replacing Abdul matin Burke said that while most of his scenes were shot sitting down in a truck he had to spend long hours in the gym becoming as Li as possible given that he might have to safely jump off the war rig many times in a row until Miller got a take he was satisfied with when principal photography commenced in June the producers disclosed that Nathan Jones and Angus Samson were set to reprised their roles from Fury Road they additionally announced that quen Bales who worked on 3,000 years of longing after a video about his mistreatment at school went viral would appear in A minor role during the production Miller agreed to cast Lackey Holm who was already playing the role of rdale pel as a younger Orton Joe succeeding Fury Road's late Hugh Keys burn who died in Miller initially wanted to use a body double for Joe and record his lines in post- production with a Dr but Holm convinced Miller that he could replicate Keys Burn's voice and eyes when you are working on a Dr George Miller movie there's no pressure on you because you're in an incredibly supportive environment Holm said during pre-production Holm fell off a motorcycle while practicing for a scene as risdale pel afterward Miller decided all the actor's bike riding would be performed by his stunt double Chris mat filming furiosa Amad Max Saga was shot in the New South Wales towns of hey left and Silverton right the latter of which is often considered a ghost town though it has a small population of people Silverton hosts a Mad Max Museum filming took place in Australia from May to October principal photography began on June Miller shot the film at various locations in New South Wales broken Hill Silverton hey the stowaway action sequence Cornell the bullet farm and the final confrontation between furiosa and dementus Terry Hills the green place Rose Park Gast town and the Disney lot in Sydney The Citadel the action sequence where the Raiders ambushed the war rig took days to shoot where close to stunt performers worked on it every day the sequence became known during production as Stairway to Nowhere Miller stated that furiosa was an easier shoot than Fury Road alluding to the latter's troubled production and complimented Warner bro's new leadership for implementing an approach to filmm that was much more collaborative than it was adversarial Burke said that Miller wanted a different kind of filming style from Fury Road which used short takes and long cuts he noted that Miller specifically wanted to shoot the scene where dementus taunts Jack and furiosa in one take Taylor Joy praised Miller's commitment to safety on set but said that working on the film was nonetheless a challenging experience with just odds spoken lines of dialogue she would go months on the film set without speaking a single word on camera I've never been more alone than making that movie I don't want to go too deep into it but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard when asked what proved more difficult than she expected on the furiosa set the actress said next question sorry talk to me in years Hemsworth arrived on set nursing a back injury but said that he was excited to work on furiosa because playing dementus allowed him to get out of that typ cast space of the muskly action guy and play a character with complications in darkness he explained that suffering without a purpose is awful but suffering with purpose can be rejuvenating and replenishing Burke said that Miller was willing to collaborate with with his actors to structure furiosa and Jack's relationship explaining that while Miller wanted a romance Burke felt the characters should push romance to the side until they believe they are riding off to a safer place while promoting the film The Actors disclosed several ideas that Miller considered or even shot but ultimately cut Taylor Joy said that Miller shot but ultimately deleted a scene where furiosa cuts off dement's tongue an act which is mentioned but not shown in the theatrical version Burke said that Miller vetoed the idea of a training montage where Jack teaches furiosa about Road War because it was too much of a cliche on Facebook Jones posted that he expects Miller will release a directors cut. better Source needed post production haunted by his memories of a better past dementus vandalizes a copy of JW waterhouse's painting hus and the nymphs after conquering Gastown Miller used The painting's Verdant watery setting to contrast with the burned out desert Landscapes of furiosa furiosa Fury roads VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson returned for fur iosa his home studio DN worked with Fram store metaphysic Rising Sun pictures and slay devx he had received an Academy Award nomination for Fury Road and subsequently won the Oscar for tenet Jackson said that furiosa leans much more heavily than Fury Road on visual effects and that Miller completely embraced the idea that CG is the way to go to build worlds and do whatever we need to do in post in addition to traditional CGI work such as augmenting backdrops and stitching together the work of multiple stuntmen who shot their scenes separately for safety reasons Jackson used VFX to heighten certain action scenes such as the stowaway action sequence where VFX animated the octobass demise and the final Chase sequence where a CGI version of furiosa's otherwise practical car was used to animate things just far too dangerous to be doing with a real car like sideswiping motorbikes VFX helped generate a feeling of movement by making background elements move faster and animating flying equipment like the octob US's Rippling black parachute as curiosa ages from a child to a young woman over the course of the film Miller and Jackson hired Rising Sun pictures to use machine learning a non-generative form of artificial intelligence to blend Taylor Joy's and Brown's faces together Taylor Joy said that Miller wanted the transition to be seamless she spent 2 days shooting with Rising Sun so that they could map her facial expressions by her estimate at the start of the film about percent of Brown's face was modified to look like her own a figure that increased to percent during Brown's final scenes in the Citadel furthermore in Taylor Joy's early scenes in the Citadel her eyes were partially modified to look more like Browns Taylor Joy stressed that the actor's Union went on strike in part to demand better regulation of AI tools and that Miller's use of AI was consensual metaphysic doai performed a similar function for the bullet farmer blending Lee Perry's facial features with those of the late Richard Carter who portrayed the bullet farmer in Fury Road impact on the Australian film industry according to the Australian broadcast incorporation ABC Furioso was the most expensive film in Australian history with a budget of ollar million over people worked on the film including some ex-convicts who were hired as supporting artists in addition to take advantage of Australian tax CRS for VFX work DN opened a Sydney Branch to spearhead special effects work on furiosa it estimated that the office once fully staffed would employ up to VFX artists the film was awarded extensive government subsidies including a filming incentive from the New South Wales government and various offsets from the federal government Miller said that government support made shooting in Australia possible the Queensland University of Technology Professor Amanda Lotz estimated that screen nssw contributed L million doll in direct subsidies to furiosa's budget furthermore the federal government offers all qualifying films a tax rebate equivalent to percent of the amount of money the production spends in Australia Lots estimated the federal rebate at AU million dollar per of a dollar million and NS W Premier Gladis blian said that she hoped furiosa would contribute 0 million to the Australian economy although a May ABC report estimated the size of the nsw filming incentive as a million doar over half the film's reported budget the ABC subsequently amended its report to remove that estimate other reports suggested that the Au million doll figure applies to the total size of the nssw subsidy fund spread out over 5 years and not to furiosa specifically furiosa's VFX artists allowed furiosa to keep shooting in Australia even though the weather in New South Wales was not ideal for a desert-based film by contrast Miller had to move the Fury Road choot from Australia to Namibia because rain caused wild flowers to grow in the Australian desert which would not have happened in a post-apocalyptic Wasteland according to Fram store during the opening Chase sequence where Mary tracks furiosa's kidnappers through a series of sandunes we ended up pretty much having to replace all of the ground colorist Eric whip who also worked on Fury Road said that because the desert scenes needed to look like Namibia and there was a huge mix of sunny and cloudy days during the shoot a lot of the backgrounds in this film are full CG Fury Road composer Tom hoken Borg also known as junkie XL returned to score furiosa this is his third collaboration with Miller after Fury Road and 3,000 years of longing Hulen Bo moved to Sydney to pen the score and also helped prepare the Final Mix he explained that because furiosa was a character-driven film The film's Score had to be character driven as well well musically everything was being told from a first-person perspective which is being her furiosa how she watches the world around her the Wasteland its cruelties Hulen Borg added that Miller wanted a way way more subtle score for furiosa than Fury Road the latter of which was just Massive Action over hours and an over-the-top rock opera in particular Miller vetoed reusing the song Brothers in Arms from Fury Road which plays when Max and furiosa help each other escape the rock rider Canyon during the bullet Farm action sequence because he wanted to focus the audience attention on the fact that furiosa was willing to sacrifice her best chance at finding the green place to save Jack's life and directed Hulen board to use fury Road's musical motifs for the green place instead Miller explained that the bullet Farm sequence needed to be kind of a love story in the middle of an action scene he wanted to show that through their actions furiosa and Jack actually are prepared to give of themselves entirely to the other furthermore Hulen Borg used AI to make deep fake voices from another voice explaining what if the source sound was a drum rhythm and what if the destination sound was an electric guitar but the software doesn't know what to make of it so it gave us a happy accident that we used throughout the score Warner Bros in house record label water tower music released the official soundtrack album on May marketing on November the Warner Bros booth at ccxp featured a firstlook image of Taylor Joy furiosa the following day the teaser trailer of the film was released on March the official trailer debuted at cicon Warner Bros screened extended footage of the film on April Miller Taylor joy and Hemsworth appeared together for the first time in public to promote the film running about 5 minutes the extended preview shown at cineman revealed that the film would be split into three distinct chapters her Odyssey begins a warrior awakens and a ride into Vengeance the final film actually features a total of five chapters the pole of inaccessibility lessons from the Wasteland the stowaway Homeward and Beyond Vengeance a trio of First Look images from the film were released exclusively by total film on April on May an extended sneak peeky was released by Odon Cinemas and was released on YouTube the following day furiosa Ahad Max Saga is a post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller who wrote the screenplay with Nik lorus it is the fifth installment in Miller's Mad Max franchise and the first not focused on series protagonist Max rockatansky instead acting as both a spin-off prequel to Mad Max Fury f Road and an origin story for the Fury Road character furiosa portrayed by Anya Taylor joy and alila brown in the prequel set to years before the events of Fury Road the film follows the title character's life for over a decade from her kidnapping by the forces of warlord dementus Chris Hemsworth to her Ascension to the rank of imperator Tom Burke also stars as petorian Jack a military commander who befriends furiosa several Fury roadcast members return in supporting roles including John Howard Nathan Jones and Angus Samson reprising their characters Miller initially intended to shoot furiosa back toback 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 laus producer Doug Mitchell composer Tom holkenborg costume designer Jenny be Andor Margaret sixel Miller's wife filming took place in Australia from June to October furiosa a mad Saga premiered at the ATA can's Film Festival on May it was released theatrically in Australia on May and in the United States the following day the film received positive reviews from critics but became a box office bomb grossing only dollar million against its budget of million dollars plot decades after the apocalypse 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 deenus of the biker horde Mary furiosa's Mother pursues them to the hord's camp killing all but one of the Raiders who brings furiosa to dementus furiosa mortally wounds the last Raider 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 piece 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 dementus adopts an unwilling furiosa as his daughter hoping she will lead him to the green place but sometime 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 cap Gas Town an oil refinery that supplies The Citadel with gasoline at peace negotiations Joe recognizes dement's authority over Gast town and increases its supplies of food and water in exchange for the hord'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 Rus shows an attraction towards her furiosa devises a plan to escape one night Rus breaks fur fosa out of Joe's Vault to rape 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 petoran jack on a supply run disillusioned by dement's callousness his Lieutenant the octob boss go Rogue and launches an air assault on the rig his mortifiers Slaughter 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 petoran she and Jack Bond and resolve to escape together they see an opportunity when Joe decides to attack Gast town 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 having already taken the farm ambushes them when they arrive furiosa and Jack barely escape and furiosa's left arm is 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 alone Mana watches from afar as furiosa struggles back to the Citadel where she and Joe's Aid the People Eater form a strategy to avoid a trap planned by dementus instead dementus himself is lured into a trap at the Citadel and the war boys Crush The Horde in a 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 the history man the film's narrator notes multiple accounts of dement's death before providing what he claims to be the true account furiosa imprisons dementus in the Citadel and uses his still living body as fertilizer to grow a peach tree from her mother's pit Joe promotes furiosa to imperator and gives her command of a new war rig she meets Joe's five breeder wives in the vault where Joe once held her prisoner the night before another Supply run the Five Wives hide in furiosa's rigb the cast Ana Taylor joy as furiosa alila Brown portrays furiosa as a child and teenager archive footage of Charli Theron as the older furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the final scene and end CRS Chris Hemsworth as dementus the deranged warlord leader of the biker horde who abducted furiosa and eventual ruler of Gastown Tom Burke as petorian Jack the commander of the citadel's first war rig Lackey Hol as aort Joe the warlord leader of the Citadel and enemy of of the biker horde archive footage of hu Key's burn as imort Joe from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the ncrs Holm also portrays risdale pel dementus Lieutenant George schev as the historyman the film's narrator and expert in pre-apocalyptic history science and technology who serves dementus John Howard as the People Eater Joe's adviser and Military strategist and the future ruler of Gast town in madmax Fury Road Angus Samson as the organic mechanic Den's and later Joe's personal physician Nathan Jones is Rus erectus Joe's muscular but dimwitted son Josh Helman as scrotus Joe's psychologically unstable STI Charlie Fraser as Mary jaasa furiosa's Mother Dylan Adonis as Valkyrie furiosa's childhood fandi Elsa padaki as Mr Norton a deformed Survivor who joins the biker horde padaki also portrays a vuvalini general Goran d clud as the octobus the leader of the mortifiers biker gang who Begins the film as dement's temporary Ally David Collins as smag dementus as henchman dance proclaimer and Messenger matus as Fang dementus as henchmen Clarence Ryan as black thumb pretorian Jack mechanic on the war rig Brian proetz as chumbucket a hunchbacked auto mechanic at the Citadel quiden Bales as War pup Lee Perry as the bullet farmer ruler of the bullet farm and the citadel's arm supplier archive footage of Richard Carter as the bullet farmer from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the ncrs Daniel Weber as War boy Jacob tamuri as Max rockatansky ha loner living in his V Interceptor who witnesses furiosa return to the Citadel he later helps furiosa and the Five Wives defeat imort Joe and his army and claim control of the Citadel in madmax Fury Road to mury 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 ncrs Additionally the NCS are intercut with archive footage from Mad Max Fury Road in which Nicholas Holt Rosie Huntington Whitley Zoe Kravitz Riley Kio ABY Lee and Courtney Eaton appear as nucks The Splendid Ang garad toast The Knowing capable the dag and Cheeto The Fragile respectively the latter five are also portrayed by standin in silhouette during the film's final scene to production and pre-production director George Miller while filming Mad Max Fury Road pictured in director George Miller and co-writer niik lathora spent over years writing the script for Mad Max Fury Road and develop backstories for every character particularly co-protagonist imperator furiosa they eventually wrote a furiosa centered screenplay which actress Charli Theron used as a reference for her performance in Fury Road according to Miller furiosa probably takes place after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome but the Mad Max franchise has no strict chronology the first trailer of the film released on November stated that furiosa takes place years after the collapse in July Miller announced plans to shoot Fury Road back toback with a live-action prequel film entitled Mad Max furiosa but during pre-production it was decided to only shoot Fury Road at one point Miller and lethor hoped to turn the furiosa screenplay into an anime film directed by mahiro maida who had previously worked on the animatrix Neon Genesis Evangelion and Porco Roso in November Miller's production company filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros over a Fury Road salary dispute which delayed the production of any additional entries in the franchise in July Miller revealed that a furiosa film was still being planned in addition to two Mad Max sequels by March Miller and Warner Bros settled their lawsuit and began casting the furiosa prequel which Miller intended to make after 3,000 years of lawning it was reported that the film would take place over a time frame of years depict furiosa's backstory of how she was displaced from her home and spent her life trying to get back multiple Fury road crew members agreed to return for the film including composer Tom holkenborg costume designer Jenny be or Margaret sixel makeup designer Leslie vanderwalt production designer Colin Gibson no relation to original Mad maxar Mel Gibson and sound mixer Ben osmo beaven sixel vanderwalt Gibson and osmo had all previously won Academy Awards for their work on Fury Road in Miller said that the semi- retired John seal had agreed to return as cinematographer but seal retired after shooting Miller's 3,000 years of longing explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his grandchildren Simon Dugen took over as furiosa's cinematographer Village Road show pictures which had co-financed Fury Road was cred in initial marketing material for furiosa with its involvement also acknowledged by an official press kit related to the film and a press release by the can's Film Festival however following its Premiere all mentions of the company were omitted from promotions and the film itself in May a box office report by deadline Hollywood stated that Warner Bros is Allin on furiosa and financed the bulk of the film's budget without co-finance years such as Village Road Show most likely the result of a Content dispute related to Warner Bros simultaneous release strategy followed in the online news site also reported that domain entertainment a private Equity Fund that co-financed other Warner Bros Productions like Aquaman and the lost kingdom in Wonka in was listed in the opening CRS after the Warner Bros a logo and casting top Anya Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth bottom Tom Burke and Lackey Holm Miller sought to cast a younger actress for the role in lie of using the Aging technology for Theon explaining that the technology still leaves an uncanny valley effect theen admitted that the decision was a little heartbreaking for sure but understood Miller's rationale in March during the co lockdown in Australia Miller auditioned several actresses over Skype for the furiosa role in October Ana Taylor Joy Chris Hemsworth and yaaya Abdul matin II were cast although Abdul matine later dropped out due to a scheduling conflict Miller chose Taylor Joy after seeing her performance in an early cut of the film last night in SoHo and auditioning her with the mad as hell monologue quoted by the character Howard Beal portrayed by Peter Finch from Sydney lumet's Network Edgar Wright the director of last night in SoHo told Miller to do yourself a favor and grab the opportunity to work with her Miller felt that there's a kind of timelessness to her there's a mystery to her and yet she's accessible Taylor Joy received advice from Nicholas Holt who had previously portrayed nuck in Fury Road and worked alongside her in the menu according to Goran D clut who portrayed the octobus Miller asks every actor who auditions with him to try out the mad as hell monologue Hemsworth an Australian had grown up watching The Mad Max films in he had previously applied for the title role in Fury Road that eventually went to Tom Hardy Hemsworth later explained that he was not a big enough star at the time to earn the role his most notable role Thor had not yet debuted in the film of the same name to accurately portray resource scarcity in the Wasteland Hemsworth cut his calorie intake in half compared to when he prepares for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film describing and elaborating on his character's motivations Hemsworth said he's a pretty horrible individual in Miller cast alila Brown as a young furiosa she had previously worked with Miller on 3,000 years of law Miller said that she reminded him of a young furiosa and that she impressed him while doing the splits on set Tom Burke joined the cast in the Autumn of as pretorian Jack replacing Abdul matin Burke said that while most of his scenes were shot sitting down in a truck he had to spend long hours in the gym becoming as Li as possible given that he might have to safely jump off the war rig many times in a row until Miller got a take he was satisfied with when principal photography commenced in June the producers disclosed that Nathan Jones and Angus Samson were set to reprise their roles from Fury Road they additionally announced that qu Bales who worked on 3,000 years of longing after a video about his mistreatment at school went viral would appear in A minor role during the production Miller agreed to cast Lackey home who was already playing the role of risdale pel as a younger immortan Joe succeeding Fury Road's late Hugh Keys burn who died in Miller initially wanted to use a body double for Joe and record his lines in post- production with a Dr but Hol vinced Miller that he could replicate Keys Burn's voice and eyes when you are working on a Dr George Miller movie there's no pressure on you because you're in an incredibly supportive environment Holm said during pre-production Holm fell off a motorcycle while practicing for a scene as risdale pel afterward Miller decided all the actor bike riding would be performed by his stunt double Chris mat filming furiosa a Mad Max Saga was shot in the New South Wales towns of hey left and Silverton right the latter of of which is often considered a ghost town though it has a small population of people Silverton hosts a Mad Max Museum filming took place in Australia from May to October principal photography began on June Miller shot the film at various locations in New South Wales broken Hill Silverton hey the stowaway action sequence Cornell the bullet farm and the final confrontation between furiosa and dementus Terry Hills the green Place Melrose Park Gast town and the Disney lot in Sydney The Citadel the action sequence where the Raiders Ambush the rig took days to shoot where close to stunt performers worked on it every day the sequence became known during production as Stairway to Nowhere Miller stated that furiosa was an easier shoot than Fury Road alluding to the latter's troubled production and complimented Warner bro's new leadership for implementing an approach to filmm that was much more collaborative than it was adversarial Burke said that Miller wanted a different kind of filming style from Fury Road which used short takes and long cuts he noted that Miller specifically wanted to shoot the scene where dementus taunts Jack and furi in one take Taylor Joy praised Miller's commitment to safety on set but said that working on the film was nonetheless a challenging experience with just odds spoken lines of dialogue she would go months on the film set without speaking a single word on camera I've never been more alone than making that movie I don't want to go too deep into it but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard when asked what proved more difficult than she expected on the furiosa set the actress said next question sorry talk to me in years Hemsworth arrived on set nursing a back injury but said that he was excited to work on furiosa because playing dementus allowed him to get out of that typ cast space of the muskly action guy and play a character with complications in darkness he explained that suffering without a purpose is awful but suffering with purpose can be rejuvenating and replenishing Burke said that Miller was willing to collaborate with his actors to structure furiosa and Jack's relationship explaining that while Miller wanted a romance Burke felt the character should push romance to the side until they believe they are riding off to a safer place while promoting the film The Actors disclosed several ideas that Miller considered or even shot but ultimately cut Taylor Joy said that Miller shot but ultimately deleted a scene where furiosa cuts off dement's tongue an act which is mentioned but not shown in the theatrical version Burke said that Miller vetoed the idea of a training montage where Jack teaches furiosa about Road War because it was too much of a cliche on Facebook Jones posted that he expects Miller will release a director's cut. better Source needed post production haunted by his memories of a better past dementus vandalizes a copy of JW waterhouse's painting hus and the nymphs after conquering Gastown Miller used the paintings verdant watery setting to contrast with the burned out desert Landscapes of furiosa furiosa Fury roads VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson returned for furiosa his home studio DN worked with frame store metaphysic doai Rising Sun pictures and slay devx he had received an Academy Award nomination for Fury Road and subsequently won the Oscar for tenet Jackson said that furiosa leans much more heavily than Fury Road on visual effects and that Miller completely embraced the idea that CG is the way to go to build worlds and do whatever we need to do in post in addition to traditional CGI work such as augmenting backdrops and stitching together the work of multiple stuntmen who shot their scenes separately for safety reasons Jackson used VFX to heighten certain action scenes such as the stowaway action sequence where VFX animated the octobus demise and the final Chase sequence where a CGI version of furiosa's otherwise practical car was used to animate things just far too dangerous to be doing with a real car like sideswiping motorbikes VFX helped generate a feeling of movement by making background elements move faster and animating flying equipment like the octobus is Rippling black parachute as furiosa ages from a child to a young woman over the course of the film Miller and Jackson hired Rising Sun pictures to use machine learning earning a non-generative form of artificial intelligence to blend Taylor Joy's and Brown's faces together Taylor Joy said that Miller wanted the transition to be seamless she spent 2 days shooting with Rising Sun so that they could map her facial expressions by her estimate at the start of the film about percent of Brown's face was modified to look like her own a figure that increased to percent during Brown's final scenes in the Citadel furthermore in Taylor Joy's early scenes in the Citadel her eyes were partially modified to look more like brown rounds Taylor Joy stressed that the actor's Union went on strike in part to demand better regulation of AI tools and that Miller's use of AI was consensual metaphysic doai performed a similar function for the bullet farmer blending Lee Perry's facial features with those of the late Richard Carter who portrayed the bullet farmer in Fury Road impact on the Australian film industry according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Furioso was the most expensive film in Australian history with a budget of ollar Millions over people worked on the film including some ex-convicts who were hired as supporting artists in addition to take advantage of Australian tax CRS for VFX work DN opened a Sydney Branch to spearhead special effects work on furiosa it estimated that the office once fully staffed would employ up to VFX artists the film was awarded extensive government subsidies including a filming incentive from the New South Wales government and various offsets from the federal government Miller said that government support made shooting Australia possible the Queensland University of Technology Professor Amanda Lotz estimated that screen nssw contributed L million in direct subsidies to furiosa's budget furthermore the federal government offers all qualifying films a tax rebate equivalent to percent of the amount of money the production spends in Australia Lots estimated the federal rebate at AU million dollar percent of a dollar million and nsw Premier Gladis blian said that she hoped furiosa would contribute 0 million dollar to the Australian economy although a May ABC report estimated the size of the nsw filming incentive as a million dollar over half the film's reported budget the ABC subsequently amended its report to remove that estimate other reports suggested that the Au million doll figure applies to the total size of the nsw subsidy fund spread out over 5 years and not to furiosa specifically furiosa's VFX artists allowed furiosa to keep shooting in Australia even though the weather in New South Wales was not ideal for a desert-based film by contrast Miller had to move the Fury Road choot from Australia to Namibia because rain caused wild flowers to grow in the Australian desert which would not have happened in a post-apocalyptic Wasteland according to Fram store during the opening Chase sequence where Mary tracks furiosa kidnappers through a series of sand dunes we ended up pretty much having to replace all of the ground colorist Eric whip who also worked on Fury Road said that because the desert scenes needed to look like Namibia and there was a huge mix of sunny and cloudy days during the shoot a lot of the backgrounds in this film are full CG Fury Road composer Tom holkenborg also known as junky XL returned to score furosa this is his third collaboration with Miller after Fury Road and 3,000 years of longing Hulen Borg moved to Sydney to pen the score and also helped prepare the Final Mix he explained that because furiosa was a character-driven film The film's Score had to be character-driven as well musically everything was being told from a first-person perspective which is being her furiosa how she watches the world around her the Wasteland its cruelties Hulen Borg added that Miller wanted a way way more subtle score for furiosa than Fury Road the latter of which was just Massive Action over hours and an over-the toop rock opera in particular Miller vetoed reusing the song Brothers in Arms from Fury Road which plays when Max and furiosa help each other escape the rock rider Canyon during the bullet Farm action sequence because he wanted to focus the audience's attention on the fact that furiosa was willing to sacrifice her best chance at finding the green place to save Jack's life and directed Hulen board to use fury Road's musical motifs for the green place instead Miller explained that the bullet Farm sequence needed to be kind of a love story in the middle of an action scene he wanted to show that through their actions furiosa and Jack actually are prepared to give of themselves entirely to the other furthermore Hulen Borg used AI to make deep fake voices from another voice explaining what if the source sound was a drum rhythm and what if the destination sound was an electric guitar but the software doesn't know what to make of it so it gave us a happy accident that we used throughout the score Warner Bros in house record label water tower music released the official soundtrack album on May marketing on November the Warner Bros booth at ccxp featured a first look image of Taylor Joy furiosa the following day the teaser trailer of the film was released on March the official trailer debuted at cinemacon Warner Bros screened extended footage of the film on April Miller Taylor joy and Hemsworth appear appeared together for the first time in public to promote the film running about 5 minutes the extended preview shown at cineman revealed that the film would be split into three distinct chapters her Odyssey begins a warrior awakens and a ride into Vengeance the final film actually features a total of five chapters the poll of inaccessibility lessons from the Wasteland the stowaway Homeward and Beyond Vengeance a trio of First Look images from the film were released exclusively by total film on April on May an extended sneak peeky was released by Odon Cinemas and was released on YouTube the following day furiosa Ahad Max Saga is a post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller who wrote the screenplay with Nik lorus it is the fifth installment in Miller's Mad Max franchise and the first not focused on series protagonist Max rockatansky instead acting as both a spin-off prequel to Mad Max Fury Road and an origin story for the Fury Road character furiosa portrayed by Ana Taylor joy and Aila Brown in the prequel set to years before the events of Fury Road the film follows the title character's life for over a decade from her kidnapping by the forces of warlord dementus Chris Hemsworth to her Ascension to the rank of imperator Tom Burke also stars as petorian Jack a military commander who befriends furiosa several Fury roadcast members return in supporting roles including John Howard Nathan Jones and Angus Samson reprising their characters Miller initially intended to shoot furiosa back toback with Fury road but the former spent several years in development hell amidst salary disputes with Warner Bros pictures Fury roads distributor several crew members from Fury Road returned for furiosa including laus producer Doug Mitchell composer Tom Hulen Borg costume designer Jenny Beav Andor Margaret sixel Miller's wife filming took place in Australia from June to October furiosa Amad Max Saga premiered at the ATA can's Film Festival on May it was released theatrically in Australia on May and in the the United States the following day the film received positive reviews from critics but became a box office bomb grossing only dollar million against its budget of million dollars plot decades after the apocalypse 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 Mary furiosa's Mother pursues them to the hord's camp killing all but one of the Raiders who brings furiosa to dementus furiosa mortally wounds the last Raider 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 mother's crucifixion haunted by his family's death dementus adopts an unwilling furiosa as his daughter hoping she will lead him to the green place that sometime 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 Gast Town an oil refinery that supplies The Citadel with gasoline at peace negotiations Joe recognizes dement's authority over Gast town and increases its supplies of food and water in exchange for the hord'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 Rus shows an attraction towards her furiosa devises a plan to escape one night Rus breaks furiosa out of Joe's Vault to rape 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 petorian jack on a supply run disillusioned by dement's callousness his Lieutenant the octob boss goes Rogue and launches an air assault on the rig his mortifiers Slaughter 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 petoran she and Jack Bond and resolve to escape together they see an opportunity when Joe decides to attack Gast town 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 having already taken the farm ambushes them when they arrive furiosa and Jack barely escape and furiosa's left arm is 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 alone Mana watches from afar as furiosa struggles back to the Citadel where she and Joe's Aid the people eat her form as strategy to avoid a trap planned by dementus instead dementus himself is lured into a trap at the Citadel and the war boys Crush The Horde in a day war having lost her path home furiosa shaves her head again replaces her arm with a mechanical prosthetic and pursues the flee dementus after an extended Chase furiosa subdues dementus in the desert the history man the film's narrator notes multiple accounts of dement's death before providing what he claims to be the true account furiosa imprisons dementus in the Citadel and uses his still living body as fertilizer to grow a peach tree from her mother's pit Joe promotes furiosa to imperator and gives her command of a new war rig she meets Joe's five breeder wives in the vault where Joe once held her prisoner the night before another Supply run the Five Wives hide in furiosa's rigb the cast Ana Taylor joy as furiosa alela brown portrays furiosa as a child and teenager archive footage of Charli as the older furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the final scene and end CRS Chris Hemsworth as dementus the deranged warlord leader of the biker horde who abducted furiosa and eventual ruler of Gastown Tom Burke as petorian Jack the commander of the citadel's first war rig Lackey Hol as aort Joe the warlord leader of the Citadel and enemy of the biker horde archive footage of hu Key's burn as imort Joe from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the ncrs Holm also portrays risdale pel dementus Lieutenant George chevo as the history man the film's narrator an expert in pre-apocalyptic history science and technology who serves dementus John Howard as the People Eater Joe's adviser and Military strategist and the future ruler of Gast town in madmax Fury Road Angus Samson as the organic mechanic dementes and later Joe's personal physician Nathan Jones is Rus erectus Joe's muscular but dim witted son Josh Helman as scrotus Joe's psychologically unstable Soni Charlie Fraser as Mary jaasa furiosa's Mother Dylan Adonis as Valkyrie furiosa's childhood fandi Elsa padaki as Mr Norton a deformed Survivor who joins the biker horde also portrays a vuvalini general Goran d clut as the octobus the leader of the mortifiers biker gang who Begins the film as dement's temporary Ally David Collins as Smeg dement's henchman dance proclaimer and Messenger matus as Fang dement's henchman Clarence Ryan as black thumb pretorian Jack mechanic on the war rig Brian proetz as chumbucket a hunchbacked auto mechanic at the Citadel quaiden Bales as War pup Lee Perry as the bullet farmer ruler of the bullet farm and the citadel's arm supplyer archive footage of Richard Carter as the bullet farmer from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the ncrs Daniel Weber as War boy Jacob tamur as Max rockatansky ha loner living in his V Interceptor who witnesses furiosa returned 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 to mury 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 ncrs additionally the NCS are intercut with archive footage from Mad Max Fury Road in which Nicholas Holt Rosie Huntington Whitley Zoe Kravitz Riley Kio ABY Lee and Courtney Eaton appear as nuck The Splendid Ang garad toast The Knowing capable the dag and Cheeto The Fragile respectively the latter five are also portrayed by standin in silhouette during the film's final scene to's production and be pre-production director George Miller while filming Mad Max Fury Road pictured in director George Miller and co- Niko lethor spent over years writing the script for Mad Max Fury Road and develop backstories for every character particularly co-protagonist imperator furiosa they eventually wrote a furiosa centered screenplay which actress Charli Theron used as a reference for her performance in Fury Road according to Miller furiosa probably takes place after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome but the Mad Max franchise has no strict chronology the first trailer of the film released on November stated that furiosa takes place years after the collapse in July Miller announced plans to shoot Fury Road back toback with a liveaction prequel film entitled Mad Max furiosa but during pre-production it was decided to only shoot Fury Road at one point Miller and lethor hoped to turn the furiosa screenplay into an anime film directed by mahiro maida who had previously worked on the animatrix Neon Genesis Evangelion and Porco Roso in November Miller's production company filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros over a a Fury Road salary dispute which delayed the production of any additional entries in the franchise in July Miller revealed that a furiosa film was still being planned in addition to two Mad Max sequels by March Miller and Warner Bros settled their lawsuit and began casting the furiosa prequel which Miller intended to make after 3,000 years of longing it was reported that the film would take place over a time frame of years depicting furiosa's backstory of how she was displaced from her home and spent her life trying to get back multiple Fury road crew members agreed to return for the film including composer Tom holkenborg costume designer Jenny be or Margaret sixel makeup designer Leslie vanderwalt production designer Colin Gibson no relation to original Mad maxstar Mel Gibson and sound mixer Ben osmo beaven sixel vanderwalt Gibson and osmo had all previously won Academy Awards for their work on Fury Road in Miller said that the semi-retired John seal had agreed to return as cinematographer but seal retired after shooting Miller's 3,000 years of longing explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his grandchildren Simon Dugen took over as furiosa's cinematographer Village Road show pictures which had co-financed Fury Road was cred in initial marketing material for furiosa with its involvement also acknowledged by an official presskit related to the film and a press release by the can's Film Festival however following its Premiere all mentions of the company were omitted from promotions and the film itself in May a box office report by deadline Hollywood stated that war Warner Bros is all in on furiosa and financed the bulk of the film's budget without co-finance years such as Village Road Show most likely the result of a Content dispute related to Warner Bros simultaneous release strategy followed in the online news site also reported that domain entertainment a private Equity Fund that co-financed other Warner Bros Productions like Aquaman and the lost kingdom in Wonka in was listed in the opening CRS after the Warner Bros a logo and casting top Ana Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth bottom Tom Burke and Lackey Hol Miller sought to cast a younger actress for the role in lie of using the Aging technology for Theon explaining that the technology still leaves an uncanny valley effect Theon admitted that the decision was a little heartbreaking for sure but understood Miller's rationale in March during the covid lockdown in Australia Miller auditioned several actresses over Skype for the furiosa role in October Anya Taylor Joy Chris Hemsworth and yaaya Abdul I I Were cast although Abdul matine later dropped out due to a scheduling conflict Miller chose Taylor Joy after seeing her performance in an early cut of the film last night in SoHo and auditioning her with the mad as hell monologue quoted by the character Howard Beal portrayed by Peter Finch from Sydney lumet's Network Edgar Wright the director of last night in SoHo told Miller to do yourself a favor and grab the opportunity to work with her Miller felt that there's a kind of timelessness to her there's a mystery to her and yet she's accessible Taylor Joy received advice from Nicholas Holt who had previously portrayed nuck in Fury Road and worked alongside her in the menu according to Goran D clut who portrayed the octobus Miller asks every actor who auditions with him to try out the mad as hell monologue Emsworth and Australian had grown up watching The Mad Max films in he had previously applied for the title role in Fury Road that eventually went to Tom Hardy Hemsworth later explained that he was not a big enough star at the time to earn the role his most notable role Thor had not yet debuted in the film of the same name to accurately portray resource scarcity in the Wasteland Hemsworth cut his calorie intake in half compared to when he prepares for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film describing and elaborating on his character's motivations Hemsworth said he's a pretty horrible individual in Miller cast alila Brown as a young furiosa she had previously worked with Miller on 3,000 years of longing Miller said that she reminded him of a young furiosa and that she impressed him while doing the splits on set Tom Burke joined the cast in the Autumn of as pretorian Jack replacing Abdul matin Burke said that while most of his scenes were shot sitting down in a truck he had to spend long hours in the gym becoming as Li as possible given that he might have to safely jump off the war rig many times in a row until Miller got a take he was satisfied with when principal photography commenced in June the producers disclosed that Nathan Jones and Angus Samson were set to reprise their roles from Fury Road they additionally announced that quad bales who worked on 3,000 years of longing after a video about his mistreatment at school went viral would appear in A minor role during the production Miller agreed to cast Lackey home who was already playing the role of risdale pel as a younger immortan Joe succeeding Fury roads late hu Keys burn who died in Miller initially wanted to use a body double for Joe and record his lines in post- production with a Dr but Holm convinced Miller that he could replicate Keys Burn's voice and eyes when you are working on a Dr George Miller movie there's no pressure on you because you're in an incredibly supportive environment Holm said during pre-production Holm fell off a motorcycle while practicing for a scene as risdale pel afterward Miller decided all the actors bike riding would be performed by his stunt double Chris maon filming furiosa a Mad Max Saga was shot in the New South Wales towns of hey left and Silverton right the latter of which is often considered a ghost town though it has a small population of people Silverton hosts a Mad Max Museum filming took place in Australia from May to October principal photography began on June Miller shot the film at various locations in New South Wales broken Hill Silverton hey the stow away action sequence Cornell the bullet farm and the final confrontation between furiosa and dementus Terry Hills the green Place Melrose Park Gast town and the Disney lot in Sydney The Citadel the action sequence where the Raiders ambushed the war rig took days to shoot where close to stunt performers worked on it every day the sequence became known during production as stairway to Nowhere Miller stated that furiosa was an easier shoot than Fury Road alluding to the latter's troubled production and complimented Warner bro's new leadership for implementing an approach to filmm that was much more collaborative than it was adversarial Burke said that Miller wanted a different kind of filming style from Fury Road which used short takes and long cuts he noted that Miller specifically wanted to shoot the scene where dementus taunts Jack and furiosa in one take Taylor Joy praised Miller's commitment to safety on set but said that working on the film was nonetheless a challenging experience with just odds spoken lines of dialogue she would go months on the film set without speaking a single word on camera I've never been more alone than making that movie I don't want to go too deep into it but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard when asked what proved more difficult than she expected on the furiosa set the actress said next question sorry talk to me in years Hemsworth arrived on set nursing a back injury but said that he was excited to work on furiosa because playing dementus allowed him to get out of that typ cast space of the muskly action guy and play a character with complications in darkness he explained that suffering without a purpose is awful but suffering with purpose can be rejuvenating and replenishing Burke said that Miller was willing to collaborate with his actors to structure furiosa and Jack's relationship explaining that while Miller wanted a romance Burke felt the characters should push romance to the side until they believe they are riding off to a safer place while promoting the film the actors disclosed several ideas that Miller considered or even shot but ultimately cut Taylor Joy said that Miller shot but ultimately deleted a scene where furiosa cuts off dementus tongue an act which is mentioned but not shown in the theatrical version Burke said that Miller vetoed the idea of a training montage where Jack teaches furiosa about Road War because it was too much of a cliche on Facebook Jones posted that he expects Miller will release a director's cut. better Source needed post production haunted by his memory of a better past dementus vandalizes a copy of JW waterhouse's painting hus and the nymphs after conquering Gastown Miller used the paintings verdant watery setting to contrast with the burned out desert Landscapes of furiosa furiosa Fury roads VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson returned for furiosa his home studio dneg worked with frame store metaphysic doai Rising Sun pictures and slay devx he had received an Academy Award nomination for Fury Road and subsequently won the Oscar for tenet Jackson said that furiosa leans much more heavily than Fury Road on visual effects and that Miller completely embraced the idea that CG is the way to go to build worlds and do whatever we need to do in post in addition to traditional CGI work such as augmenting backdrops and stitching together the work of multiple stuntmen who shot their scenes separately for safety reasons Jackson used VFX to heighten certain action scenes such as the stowaway action sequence where VFX animated the octopus's demise and the final Chase sequence where a CG GI version of furiosa's otherwise practical car was used to animate things just far too dangerous to be doing with a real car like swiping motorbikes VFX helped generate a feeling of movement by making background elements move faster and animating flying equipment like the octob US's Rippling black parachute as furiosa ages from a child to a young woman over the course of the film Miller and Jackson hired Rising Sun pictures to use machine learning and non-generative form of artificial intelligence to blend Taylor joy and Brown's faces together Taylor Jo said that Miller wanted the transition to be seamless she spent 2 days shooting with Rising Sun so that they could map her facial expressions by her estimate at the start of the film about percent of Brown's face was modified to look like her own a figure that increased to percent during Brown's final scenes in the Citadel furthermore in Taylor Joy's early scenes in the Citadel her eyes were partially modified to look more like Browns Taylor Joy stressed that the actor Union went on strike in part to demand better regulation of AI tools and that Miller's use of AI was consensual metaphysic performed a similar function for the bullet farmer blending Lee Perry's facial features with those of the late Richard Carter who portrayed the bullet farmer in Fury Road impact on the Australian film industry according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Furioso was the most expensive film in Australian history with a budget of ollar million over people worked on the film including some ex-convicts who were hired as supporting artists in addition to take advantage of Australian tax CRS for VFX work DN opened a Sydney Branch to spearhead special effects work on furiosa it estimated that the office once fully staffed would employ up to VFX artists the film was awarded extensive government subsidies including a filming incentive from the New South Wales government and various offsets from the federal government Miller said that government support made shooting in Australia possible the Queensland University of Technology Professor Amanda Lotz estimated that screen nssw contributed L million in direct subsidies to furiosa's budget furthermore the federal government offers all qualifying films a tax rebate equivalent to percent of the amount of money the production spends in Australia Lots estimated the federal rebate at AU million doll percent of au dollar million and nsw Premier Gladis blian said that she hoped furiosa would contribute 0 million dollar to the Australian economy although a May ABC report estimated the size of the nsw filming incentive as a million doar over half the film's reported budget the ABC subsequently amended its report to remove that estimate other reports suggested that the Au million doll figure applies to the total size of the nsw subsidy fund spread out over 5 years and not to furiosa specifically furiosa's VFX artists allowed furiosa to keep shooting in Australia even though the weather in New South Wales was not ideal for a desert-based film by contrast Miller had to move the Fury Road shoot from Australia to Namibia because rain caused Wild flowers to grow in the Australian desert which would not have happened in a post-apocalyptic Wasteland according to Fram store during the opening Chase sequence where Mary tracks furiosa's kidnappers through a series of sand dunes we ended up pretty much having to replace all of the ground colorist Eric whip who also worked on Fury Road said that because the desert scenes needed to look like Namibia and there was a huge mix of sunny and cloudy days during the shoot a lot of the backgrounds in this film are full CG Fury Road composer Tom hulkenberg also known as as junkie XL returned to score furiosa this is his third collaboration with Miller after Fury Road and 3,000 years of longing Hulen Borg moved to Sydney to pen the score and also helped prepare the Final Mix he explained that because furiosa was a character-driven film The film's Score had to be character-driven as well musically everything was being told from a first-person perspective which is being her furiosa how she watches the world around her the Wasteland its cruelties Hulen Borg added that Miller wanted a away way more subtle score for furiosa than Fury Road the latter of which was just Massive Action over hours and an over-the-top rock opera in particular Miller vetoed reusing the song Brothers in Arms from Fury Road which plays when Max and furiosa help each other escape the rock rider Canyon during the bullet Farm action sequence because he wanted to focus the audience's attention on the fact that furiosa was willing to sacrifice her best chance at finding the green place to save Jack's life and directed Hulen board to use fury roads musical motifs for the green place instead Miller explained that the bullet Farm sequence needed to be kind of a love story in the middle of an action scene he wanted to show that through their actions furiosa and Jack actually are prepared to give of themselves entirely to the other furthermore Hulen Borg used AI to make deep fake voices from another voice explaining what if the source sound was a drum rhythm and what if the destination sound was an electric guitar but the software doesn't know what to make of it so it gave us a happy accident that we used throughout the score Warner Bros in house record label Water Tower music released the official soundtrack album on May marketing on November the Warner Bros booth at ccxp featured a first look image of Taylor Joy furiosa the following day the teaser trailer of the film was released on March the official trailer debuted at cinemacon Warner Bros screened extended footage of the film on April Miller Taylor joy and Hemsworth appeared together for the first time in public to promote the film running about 5 minutes the extended preview shown at cineman revealed that the film would be split into three distinct chapters her Odyssey begins a warrior awakens and a ride into Vengeance the final film actually features a total of five chapters the pole of inaccessibility lessons from the Wasteland the stowaway Homeward and Beyond Vengeance a trio of firstlook images from the film were released exclusively by total film on April on May an extended sneak peeky was released by Odon Cinemas and was released on YouTube the following day furiosa a Mad Max Saga is a post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller who wrote the screenplay with Nik lorus it is the fifth installment in Miller's Mad Max franchise and the first not focused on series protagonist Max rockatansky instead acting as both a spin-off prequel to Mad Max Fury Road and an origin story for the Fury Road character furiosa portrayed by Ana Taylor joy and AA Brown in the prequel set to years before the events of Fury Road the film follows the title characters life for over a decade from her kidnapping by the forces of warlord dementus Chris Hemsworth to her Ascension to the rank of imperator Tom Burke also stars as petorian Jack a military commander who befriends furiosa several Fury roadcast members return in supporting roles including John Howard Nathan Jones and Angus Samson reprising their characters 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 Rose distributor several crew members from Fury Road returned for furiosa including leus producer Doug Mitchell composer Tom Hulen Bor costume designer Jenny be Andor Margaret sixel Miller's wife filming took place in Australia from June to October furiosa Amad Max Saga premiered at the at cans Film Festival on May it was released theatrically in Australia on May and in the United States the following day the film received positive reviews from critics but became a box office bomb grossing only dollar million against its budget of million dollars plot decades after the apocalypse 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 Mary furiosa's Mother pursues them to the hord's camp killing all but one of the Raiders who brings furiosa to dementus furiosa mortally wounds the last Raider 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 dementus adopts an unwilling furiosa as his daughter hoping she will lead him to the green place that sometime 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 Gast Town an oil refinery that supplies The Citadel with gasoline at peace negotiations Joe recognizes dement's authority over Gast town and increases its supplies of food and water in exchange for the hord's physician and F 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 Rus shows an attraction towards her furiosa devises a plan to escape one night Rus breaks furiosa out of Joe's Vault to rape 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 petorian jack on a supply run disillusioned by dement's callousness his Lieutenant the octopos goes Rogue and launches an air assault on the rig his mortifiers Slaughter 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 petoran she and Jack Bond and resolve to escape together they see an opportunity when Joe decides to attack Gast town 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 having already taken the farm ambushes them when they arrive furiosa and Jack barely escape and furiosa's left arm is injured deenus chases them down and tortures Jack to death furiosa escapes her chains by severing her own injured arm sacrificing her star map to escape alone Mana watches from afar as furiosa struggles back to the Citadel where she and Joe's Aid the People Eater form a strategy to avoid a trap planned by dementus instead dementus himself is lured into a trap at the Citadel and the war boys Crush The Horde in a 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 the history man the film's narrator notes multiple accounts of dement's death before providing what he claims to be the true account furiosa imprisons dementus in the Citadel and uses his still living body as fertilizer to grow a peach tree from her mother's pit Joe promotes furiosa to imperator and gives her command of a new war rig she meets Joe's five breeder wives in the vault where Joe once held her prisoner the night before another Supply run the Five Wives hide in furiosa's rigb cast Ana Taylor joy as furiosa alila brown portrays furiosa as a child and teenager archive footage of Charli Theron as the older furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the final scene and end CRS Chris Hemsworth as dementus the deranged warlord leader of the biker horde who abducted furiosa and eventual ruler of Gastown Tom Burke as petorian Jack the commander of the citadel's first war rig Lackey Holm as Orton Joe the warlord leader of the Citadel and enemy of the biker horde archive footage of hu Key's burn as immortan Joe from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the end CRS Holm also portrays risdale pel dementus Lieutenant George chef as the historyman the film's narrator an expert in pre-apocalyptic history science and technology who serves dementus John Howard as the People Eater Joe's adviser and Military strategist and the future ruler of Gast town in madmax Fury Road Angus Samson as the organic mechanic dement's and later Joe's personal physician Nathan Jones is Rus erectus Joe's muscular but dimwitted son Josh Helman as scrotus Joe's psychologically unstable STI Charlie Fraser as Mary jaasa furiosa's Mother Dylan Adonis as Valkyrie furiosa's childhood fandy Elsa padaki as Mr Norton a deformed Survivor who joins the biker horde padaki also portrays a vuvalini general Goran d clut as the octobus the leader of the mortifiers biker gang who Begins the film as dement's temporary Ally David Collins as Smeg dementus is henchman dance proclaimer and Messenger matus as Fang dementus as henchmen Clarence Ryan as black thumb petorian Jack's mechanic on the war rig Brian proetz as chumbucket a hunchbacked auto mechanic at the Citadel quiden Bales as War pup Lee Perry as the bullet farmer ruler of the bullet Farm in the citadel's arm supplyer archive footage of Richard Carter as the bullet farmer from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the ncrs Daniel Weber as War boy Jacob tamur as Max rockatansky ha loner living in his V Interceptor who witnesses furiosa returned to the Citadel he later helps furiosa and the Five Wives defeat Orton Joe and his army and claim control of the Citadel in madmax Fury Road to mury 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 ncrs Additionally the NCS are intercut with archive footage from Mad Max Fury Road in which Nicholas Holt Rosie Huntington Whitley Zoe Kravitz Riley ABY Lee and Courtney Eaton appear as nucks The Splendid Ang garad toast The Knowing capable the dag and Cheeto The Fragile respectively the latter five are also portrayed by standin in silhouette during the film's final scene to's production and pre-production director George Miller while filming Mad Max Fury Road pictured in director George Miller and co-writer niik lathora spent over years writing the script for Mad Max Fury Road and develop backstories for every character particular ularly co-protagonist imperator furiosa they eventually wrote a furiosa centered screenplay which actress Charli Theron used as a reference for her performance in Fury Road according to Miller furiosa probably takes place after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome but the Mad Max franchise has no strict chronology the first trailer of the film released on November stated that furiosa takes place years after the collapse in July Miller announced plans to shoot Fury Road back toback with a live-action prequel film entitled Mad Max furiosa but during pre-production it was decided to only shoot Fury Road at one point Miller and lethor hoped to turn the furiosa screenplay into an anime film directed by mahiro maida who had previously worked on the animatrix Neon Genesis Evangelion and Porco Roso in November Miller's production company filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros over a Fury Road salary dispute which delayed the production of any additional entries in the franchise in July Miller revealed that a furiosa film was still being planned in addition to two Mad Max sequels by March Miller and Warner Bros settled their lawsuit and began casting the furiosa prequel which Miller intended to make after 3,000 years of longing it was reported that the film would take place over a time frame of years depicting furiosa's backstory of how she was displaced from her home and spent her life trying to get back multiple Fury road crew members agreed to return for the film including composer Tom holkenborg costume designer Jenny be or Margaret sixel makeup designer Leslie vanderwalt production designer Colin Gibson no relation to original Mad maxar Mel Gibson and sound mixer Ben osmo beaven sixel vanderwalt Gibson and osmo had all previously won Academy Awards for their work on Fury Road in Miller said that the semi-retired John seal had agreed to return as cinematographer but seal retired after shooting Miller's 3,000 years of longing explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his grandchildren Simon Dugen took over as furiosa's cinematograph rer Village Road show pictures which had co-financed Fury Road was cred in initial marketing material for furiosa with its involvement also acknowledged by an official press kit related to the film and a press release by the can's Film Festival however following its Premiere all mentions of the company were omitted from promotions and the film itself in May a box office report by deadline Hollywood stated that Warner Bros is all in on furiosa and financed the bulk of the film's budget without co-financing such as Village Road Show most likely the result of a Content dispute related to Warner Bros simultaneous release strategy followed in the online news site also reported that domain entertainment a private Equity Fund that co-financed other Warner Bros Productions like Aquaman and the lost kingdom and Wonka in was listed in the opening CRS after the Warner Bros a logo and casting top Ana Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth bottom Tom Burke and Lackey Holm Miller sought to cast a younger actress for the role in lie of using the Aging technology for Theon explaining that the technology still leaves an uncanny valley effect Theon admitted that the decision was a little heartbreaking for sure but understood Miller's rationale in March during the covid lockdown in Australia Miller auditioned several actresses over Skype for the furiosa role in October Anya Taylor Joy Chris Hemsworth and yaaya Abdul matin I I Were cast although Abdul matin later dropped out due to a scheduling conflict Miller chose Taylor after seeing her performance in an early cut of the film last night in SoHo and auditioning her with the mad as hell monologue quoted by the character Howard Beal portrayed by Peter Finch from Sydney lumet's Network Edgar Wright the director of last night in SoHo told Miller to do yourself a favor and grab the opportunity to work with her Miller felt that there's a kind of timelessness to her there's a mystery to her and yet she's accessible Taylor Joy received advice from Nicholas Holt who had previously portrayed nuck in Fury Road and worked alongside her in the menu according to Goran D clut who portrayed the octobus Miller asks every actor who auditions with him to try out the mad as hell monologue Hemsworth an Australian had grown up watching The Mad Max films in he had previously applied for the title role in Fury Road that eventually went to Tom Hardy Hemsworth later explained that he was not a big enough star at the time to earn the role his most notable role Thor had not yet debuted in the film of the same name to accurately portray resource scarcity in the Wasteland Hemsworth cut his calorie intake in half compared to when he prepares for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film describing and elaborating on his character's motivations Hemsworth said he's a pretty horrible individual in Miller cast alila Brown as a young furiosa she had previously worked with Miller on 3,000 years of longing Miller said that she reminded him of a young furiosa and that she impressed him while doing the splits on set Tom Burke joined the cast in the Autumn of as pretorian Jack replacing Abdul matin Burke said said that while most of his scenes were shot sitting down in a truck he had to spend long hours in the gym becoming as Li as possible given that he might have to safely jump off the war rig many times in a row until Miller got a take he was satisfied with when principal photography commenced in June the producers disclosed that Nathan Jones and Angus Samson were set to reprise their roles from Fury Road they additionally announced that Quin Bales who worked on 3,000 years of longing after a video about his mistreatment at school went viral would appear in A minor role during the production Miller agreed to cast Lackey Holm who was already playing the role of rdale pel as a younger immortan Joe succeeding Fury roads late Hugh Keys burn who died in Miller initially wanted to use a body double for Joe and record his lines in post-production with a Dr but Holm convinced Miller that he could replicate Keys Burn's voice and eyes when you are working on a Dr George Miller movie there's no pressure on you because you're in an incredibly supportive environment Holmes said during pre-production Holm fell off a motorcycle while practicing for a scene as risdale pel afterward Miller decided all the actors bike riding would be performed by his stunt double Chris mat filming furiosa a Mad Max Saga was shot in the New South Wales towns of hey left and Silverton right the latter of which is often considered a ghost town though it has a small population of people Silverton hosts a Mad Max Museum filming took place in Australia from May to October principal photography began on June Miller shot the film at various locations in New South Wales broken Hill Silverton hey the stow away action sequence Cornell the bullet farm and the final confrontation between furiosa and dementus Terry Hills the green Place Melrose Park Gast town and the Disney lot in Sydney The Citadel the action sequence where the Raiders ambushed the war rig took days to shoot where close to stunt performers worked on it every day the sequence became known during production as Stairway to Nowhere Miller stated that furiosa was an easier shoot than Fury Road alluding to the latter's trouble production and complimented Warner bro's new leadership for implementing an approach to filmmaking that was much more collaborative than it was adversarial Burke said that Miller wanted a different kind of filming style from Fury Road which used short takes and long cuts he noted that Miller specifically wanted to shoot the scene where dementus taunts Jack and furiosa in one take Taylor Joy praised Miller's commitment to safety on set but said that working on the film was nonetheless a challenging experience with just odds spoken lines of dialogue she would go months on on the film set without speaking a single word on camera I've never been more alone than making that movie I don't want to go too deep into it but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard when asked what proved more difficult than she expected on the furiosa set the actress said next question sorry talk to me in years Hemsworth arrived on set nursing a back injury but said that he was excited to work on furiosa because playing dementus allowed him to get out of that typ cast space of the muskly action guy and play a character with complications in darkness he explained that suffering without a purpose is awful but suffering with purpose can be rejuvenating and replenishing Burke said that Miller was willing to collaborate with his actors to structure furiosa and Jack's relationship explaining that while Miller wanted a romance Burke felt the characters should push romance to the side until they believe they are riding off to a safer place while promoting the film The Actors disclosed several ideas that Miller considered or even shot but ultimately cut Taylor Joy said that Miller shot But ultimately deleted a scene where furiosa cuts off dement's tongue an act which is mentioned but not shown in the theatrical version Burke said that Miller vetoed the idea of a training montage where Jack teaches furiosa about Road War because it was too much of a cliche on Facebook Jones posted that he expects Miller will release a director's cut. better Source needed post production haunted by his memories of a better past dementus vandalizes a copy of JW waterhouse's painting hus and the nym after conquering Gast Town Miller used the paintings verdant watery setting to contrast with the burned out desert Landscapes of furiosa furiosa Fury roads VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson returned for furiosa his home studio dneg worked with frame store metaphysic doai Rising Sun pictures and slay devx he had received an Academy Award nomination for Fury Road and subsequently won the Oscar for tenet Jackson said that furiosa leans much more heavily than Fury Road on visual effects and that Miller completely embraced the idea that CG is the way to go to build worlds and do whatever we need to do in post in addition to traditional CGI work such as augmenting backdrops and stitching together the work of multiple stuntmen who shot their scenes separately for safety reasons Jackson used VFX to heighten certain action scenes such as the stowaway action sequence where VFX animated the octobus demise and the final Chase sequence where a CGI version of furiosa's otherwise practical car was used to animate things just far too dangerous to be doing with a real car like like sideswiping motorbikes VFX helped generate a feeling of movement by making background elements move faster and animating flying equipment like the octob boss's Rippling black parachute as furiosa ages from a child to a young woman over the course of the film Miller and Jackson hired Rising Sun pictures to use machine learning a non-generative form of artificial intelligence to blend Taylor Joy's and Brown's faces together Taylor Joy said that Miller wanted the transition to be seamless she spent two days shooting with Rising Sun so that they could map her her facial expressions by her estimate at the start of the film about percent of Brown's face was modified to look like her own a figure that increased to percent during Brown's final scenes in the Citadel furthermore in Taylor Joy's early scenes in the Citadel her eyes were partially modified to look more like Browns Taylor Joy stressed that the actor's Union went on strike in part to demand better regulation of AI tools and that Miller's use of AI was consensual metaphysic performed a similar function for the bull buet farmer blending Lee Perry's facial features with those of the late Richard Carter who portrayed the bullet farmer in Fury Road impact on the Australian film industry according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Furioso was the most expensive film in Australian history with a budget of ow dollar million over people worked on the film including some ex-convicts who were hired as supporting artists in addition to take advantage of Australian tax CRS for VFX work DN opened a Sydney Branch to spearhead special effects work on furiosa it estimated that the office once fully staffed would employ up to VFX artists the film was awarded extensive government subsidies including a filming incentive from the New South Wales government and various offsets from the federal government Miller said that government support made shooting in Australia possible the Queensland University of Technology Professor Amanda Lotz estimated that screen nsw contributed L million in direct subsidies to furiosa's budget furthermore the federal government offers all qualifying films a tax rebate equivalent to percent of the amount of money the production spends in Australia Lots estimated the federal rebate at AU million percent of au dollar million and nsw Premier Gladis blian said that she hoped furiosa would contribute 0 million dollar to the Australian economy although a May ABC report estimated the size of the nsw filming incentive as a million dollar over half the film's reported budget the ABC subsequently amended its report to remove that estimate other reports suggested that the Au million dolls figure applies to the total size of the nsw subsidy fund spread out over 5 years and not to furiosa specifically furiosa's VFX artists allowed furiosa to keep shooting in Australia even though the weather in New South Wales was not ideal for a desert-based film by contrast Miller had to move the Fury Road shoot from Australia to Namibia because rain caused wild flowers to grow in the Australian desert which would not have happened in a post-apocalyptic Wasteland according to frame store during the opening Chase sequence where Mary tracks furiosa's kidnappers through a series of sand dunes we ended up pretty much having to replace all of the ground colorist Eric whip who also worked on Fury Road said that because the desert scenes needed to look like Namibia and there was a huge mix of sunny and cloudy days during the shoot a lot of the backgrounds in this film are full CG Fury Road composer Tom hulkenberg also known as junky XL returned to score furiosa this is his third collaboration with Miller after Fury Road and 3,000 years of long in Hulen Borg moved to Sydney to pen the score and also helped prepare the Final Mix he explained that because furiosa was a character driven film The film's Score had to be character-driven as well musically everything was being told from a first-person perspective which is being her furiosa how she watches the world around her the Wasteland its cruelties Hulen Borg added that Miller wanted a way way more subtle score for furiosa then Fury Road the latter of which was just Massive Action over hours and an over-the-top rock opera in particular Miller vetoed reusing the song Brothers in Arms from Fury Road which plays when Max and furiosa help each other escape the rock rider Canyon during the bullet Farm action sequence because he wanted to focus the audience's attention on the fact that furiosa was willing to sacrifice her best chance at finding the green place to save Jack's life and directed Hulen board to use fury Road's musical motifs for the green place instead Miller explained that the bullet Farm sequence needed to be kind of a love story in the middle of an action scene he wanted to show that through their actions furiosa and Jack actually are prepared to give of themselves entirely to the other furthermore Hulen Borg used AI to make deep fake voices from another voice explaining what if the source sound was a drum rhythm and what if the destination sound was an electric guitar but the software doesn't know what to make of it so it gave us a happy accident that we used throughout the score Warner Bros in house record label water tower music released the official soundtrack album on May marketing on November the Warner Bros booth at ccxp featured a firstlook image of Taylor Joy furiosa the following day the teaser trailer of the film was released on March the official trailer debuted at cinemacon Warner Bros screened extended footage of the film on April Miller Taylor joy and Hemsworth appeared together for the first time in public to promote the film running about 5 minutes the extended preview shown at cineman revealed that the film would be split into three distinct chapters her Odyssey begins a warrior awakens and arriv into Vengeance the final film actually features a total of five chapters the pole of inaccessibility lessons from the Wasteland the stow away Homeward and Beyond Vengeance a trio of firstlook images from the film were released exclusively by total film on April on May an extended sneak peeky was released by Odon Cinemas and was released on YouTube the following day furiosa Amad Max Saga is a post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller who wrote the screenplay with Nik lorus it is the fifth installment in Miller's Mad Max franchise and the first not focused on series protagonist Max rockatansky instead acting as both a spin-off prequel to Mad Max Fury Road and an origin story for the Fury Road character furiosa portrayed by Anya Taylor joy and alila brown in the prequel set to years before the events of Fury Road the film follows the title character's life for over a decade from her kidnapping by the forces of warlord dementus Chris Hemsworth to her Ascension to the rank of imper Tom Burke also stars as petorian Jack a military commander who befriends furiosa several Fury roadcast members return in supporting roles including John Howard Nathan Jones and Angus Samson reprising their characters Miller initially intended to shoot furiosa backtack 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 leus producer Doug composer Tom holkenborg costume designer Jenny be Andor Margaret sixel Miller's wife filming took place in Australia from June to October furiosa am Mad Max Saga premiered at the ATA cans Film Festival on May it was released theatrically in Australia on May and in the United States the following day the film received positive reviews from critics but became a box office bomb grossing only dollar million against its budget of million dollars plot decades after the apocalypse 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 Mary furiosa's Mother pursues them to the hordes Camp killing all but one of the Raiders who brings furiosa to dementus furiosa mortally wounds the last Raider 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 dementus adopts an unwilling furiosa as his daughter hoping she will lead him to the green place that sometime 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 Gast Town an oil refinery that supplies The Citadel with gasoline at peace negotiations Joe recognizes dement's authority over Gast town and increases its supplies of food and water in exchange for the hord'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 Rus shows an attraction towards her furiosa devises a plan to escape one night Rus breaks furiosa out of Joe's Vault to rape 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 petorian jack on a supply run disillusioned by dement's callousness his Lieutenant the octob boss goes Rogue and launches an air assault on the rig his mortifiers Slaughter the rigs 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 petoran she and Jack Bond and resolve to escape together they see an opportunity when Joe decides to attack Gast town 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 having already taken the farm ambushes them when they arrive furiosa and Jack barely escape and furiosa's left arm is 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 Al lone Mana watches from afar as furiosa struggles back to the Citadel where she and Joe's Aid the People Eater form a strategy to avoid a trap planned by dementus instead dementus himself is lured into a trap at the Citadel and the war boys Crush The Horde in a day war having lost her path home furiosa shaves her head again again replaces her arm with a mechanical prosthetic and pursues the fleeing dementus after an extended Chase furiosa subdues dementus in the desert the history man the film's narrator notes multiple accounts of dement's death before providing what he claims to be the true account furiosa imprisons dementus in the Citadel and uses his still living body as fertilizer to grow a peach tree from her mother's pit Joe promotes furiosa to imperator and gives her command of a new war rig she meets Joe's five breeder wives in the vault where Joe once held her prisoner the night before another Supply run the Five Wives hide in furiosa's rigb cast Ana Taylor joy as furiosa alela brown portrays furiosa as a child and teenager archive footage of Charli Theron as the older furiosa from madx Fury Road is used during the final scene and end CRS Chris Hemsworth as dementus the deranged warlord leader of the biker horde who abducted furiosa and eventual ruler of Gastown Tom Burke as petorian Jack the commander of the citadel's first war rig Lackey Holm as imort Joe the warlord leader of the Citadel and enemy of the biker horde archive footage of hu Key's burn as immortan Joe from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the ncrs Holm also portrays risdale pel dementus Lieutenant George chov as the history man the film's narrator an expert in pre-apocalyptic history science and technology who serves dementus John Howard as the People Eater Joe's adviser and Military strategist and the future ruler of Gast town in madmax Fury Road Angus Samson as the organic mechanic dement's and later Joe's personal physician Nathan Jones as Rus erectus Joe's muscular but dimwitted son Josh Helman as scrotus Joe's psychologically unstable STI Charlie Fraser as Mary jaasa furiosa's Mother Dylan Adonis as Valkyrie furiosa's child fandy Elsa padaki as Mr Norton a deformed Survivor who joins the biker horde padaki also portrays a vuvalini general Goran d clut as the octobus the leader of the mortifiers biker gang who Begins the film as dement's temporary Ally David Collins as Smeg dement's henchman dance proclaimer and Messenger matus as Fang dement's henchman Clarence Ryan as black thumb petorian Jack's mechanic on the war rig Brian prets as Chum Bucket a hunchbacked auto mechanic at the Citadel quiden Bales as War pup Lee Perry as the bullet farmer ruler of the bullet farm and the citadel's arm supplyer archive footage of Richard Carter as the bullet farmer from Mad Max Fury Road is used during the end CRS Daniel Weber as War boy Jacob tamur as Max rockatansky ha loner living in his V Interceptor who witnesses furiosa return to the Citadel he later helps furiosa and the Five Wives defe defeat immortan Joe and his army and claim control of the Citadel in madmax Fury Road to mury 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 ncrs Additionally the end CRS are intercut with archive footage from Mad Max Fury Road in which Nicholas Holt Rosie Huntington Whitley Zoe Kravitz Riley Kio ABY Lee and Courtney Eaton appear as nucks The Splendid Ang garad toast The Knowing capable the dag and Cheeto The Fragile respectively the latter five are also portrayed by standin in silhouette during the film's final scene to's production and pre-production director George Miller while filming Mad Max Fury Road pictured in director George Miller and co-writer niik lathora spent over years writing the script for Mad Max Fury Road and develop backstories for every character particularly co-protagonist imperator furiosa they eventually wrote a furiosa centered screenplay which actress Charli Theron used as a reference for her performance in Fury Road according to Miller furiosa probably takes place after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome but the Mad Max franchise has no strict chronology the first trailer of the film released on November stated that furiosa takes place years after the collapse in July Miller announced plans to shoot Fury Road back toback with a liveaction prequel film intitled Mad Max furiosa but during pre-production it was decided to only shoot Fury Road at one point Miller and lethor hoped to turn the furiosa screenplay into an anime film directed by mahiro maida who had previously worked on the animatrix Neon Genesis Evangelion and Porco Roso in November Miller's production company filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros over a Fury Road salary dispute which delayed the production of any additional entries in the franchise in July Miller revealed that a furiosa film was still being planned in addition to two Mad Max sequels by March Miller and Warner Bros settled their lawsuit and began casting the furiosa prequel which Miller intended to make after 3,000 years of longing it was reported that the film would take place over a time frame of years depicting furiosa's backstory of how she was displaced from her home and spent her life trying to get back multiple Fury road crew members agreed to return for the film including composer Tom holkenborg costume designer Jenny Beav or Margaret sixel makeup designer Leslie vanderwalt production designer Colin Gibson no relation to original Mad maxar Mel Gibson and sound mixer Ben osmo be sixel vanderwalt Gibson and osmo had all previously won Academy Awards for their work on Fury Road in Miller said that the semi-retired John seal had agreed to return as cinematographer but seal retired after shooting Miller's 3000 years of longing explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his grandchildren Simon Dugen took over as furiosa's cinematographer Village Road show pictures which had co-financed Fury Road was cred in initial marketing material for furiosa with its involvement also acknowledged by an official press kit related to the film and a press release by the can's Film Festival however following its Premiere all mentions of the company were omitted from promotions and the film itself in May a box office report by deadline Hollywood stated that Warner Bros is all in on furiosa and financed the bulk of the film's budget without co-finance years such as Village Road Show most likely the result of a Content dispute related to Warner Bros simultaneous release Str followed in the online news site also reported that domain entertainment a private Equity Fund that co-financed other Warner Bros Productions like Aquaman and the lost kingdom and Wonka in was listed in the opening CRS after the Warner Bros a logo and casting top Anya Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth bottom Tom Burke and Lackey Holm Miller sought to cast a younger actress for the role and lie of using the Aging technology for Theon explaining that the technology still leaves an uncanny valley effect theen admitted that the decision was a little heartbreaking for sure but understood Miller's rationale in March during the co lockdown in Australia Miller auditioned several actresses over Skype for the furiosa role in October Anya Taylor Joy Chris hemworth and yaaya Abdul matin I I Were cast although Abdul matin later dropped out due to a scheduling conflict Miller chose Taylor Joy after seeing her performance in an early cut of the film last night in SoHo and auditioning her with the mad as hell monologue quoted by the character Howard Beal portrayed by Peter Finch from Sydney lumet's Network Edgar Wright the director of last night in SoHo told Miller to do yourself a favor and grab the opportunity to work with her Miller felt that there's a kind of timelessness to her there's a mystery to her and yet she's accessible Taylor Joy received advice from Nicholas Holt who had previously portrayed nucks in Fury Road and worked alongside her in the menu according to Goran D clut who portrayed the octobus Miller asks every actor who auditioned with him to try out the mad as hell monologue Hemsworth an Australian had grown up watching The Mad Max films in he had previously applied for the title role in Fury Road that eventually went to Tom Hardy Hemsworth later explained that he was not a big enough star at the time to earn the role his most notable role Thor had not yet debuted in the film of the same name to accurately portray resource scarcity in the Wasteland Hemsworth cut his calorie intake in half compared to when he prepares for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film describing and elaborating on his character's motivations Hemsworth said he's a pretty horrible individual in Miller cast alila Brown as a young furiosa she had previously worked with Miller on 3,000 years of longing Miller said that she reminded him of a young furiosa and that she impressed him while doing the splits on set Tom Burke joined the cast in the Autumn of as pretorian Jack replacing Abdul matin Burke said that while most of his scenes were shot sitting down in a truck he had to spend long hours in the gym becoming as Li as possible given that he might have to safely jump off the war rig many times in a row until Miller got a take he was satisfied with when principal photography commenced in June the producers disclosed that Nathan Jones and Angus Samson were set to reprise their roles from Fury Road they additionally announced that quadin Bales who worked on 3,000 years of longing after a video about his mistreatment at school went viral would appear in A minor role during the production Miller agreed to cast Lackey home who was already playing the role of rdale pel as a young a Morton Joe succeeding Fury Road's late Hugh Keys burn who died in Miller initially wanted to use a body double for Joe and record his lines in post-production with a Dr but Holm convinced Miller that he could replicate Keys Burns voice and eyes when you are working on a Dr George Miller movie there's no pressure on you because you're in an incredibly supportive environment Holm said during pre-production Holm fell off a motorcycle while practicing for a scene as risdale pel afterward Miller decided all the actor's bike riding would be performed by his stunt double Chris mat filming furiosa a Mad Max Saga was shot in the New South Wales towns of hey left and Silverton right the latter of which is often considered a ghost town though it has a small population of people Silverton hosts a Mad Max Museum filming took place in Australia from May to October principal photography began on June Miller shot the film at various locations in New South Wales broken Hill Silverton hey the stow away action sequence Corel the bullet Farm and the final confrontation between furiosa and dementus Terry Hills the green Place Melrose Park Gast town and the Disney lot in Sydney The Citadel the action sequence where the Raiders ambushed the war rig took days to shoot where close to stunt performers worked on it every day the sequence became known during production as Stairway to Nowhere Miller stated that furiosa was an easier shoot than Fury Road alluding to the latter's troubled production and complimented Warner bro's new leadership for implementing an approach to filmm that was much more collaborative than it was adversarial Burke said that Miller wanted a different kind of filming style from Fury Road which used short takes and long cuts he noted that Miller specifically wanted to shoot the scene where dementus taunts Jack and furiosa in one take Taylor Joy praised Miller's commitment to safety on set but said that working on the film was nonetheless a challenging experience with just odds spoken lines of dialogue she would go months on the film set without speaking a single word on camera I've never been more alone than making that movie I don't want to go too deep into it but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard when asked what proved more difficult than she expected on the furiosa set the actress said next question sorry talk to me in years Hemsworth arrived on set nursing a back injury but said that he was excited to work on furiosa because playing dementus allowed him to get out of that typ cast space of the muskly action guy and play a character with complications in darkness he explained that suffering without a purpose is awful but suffering with purpose can be rejuvenating and replenishing Burke said that Miller was willing to collaborate with his actors to structure furiosa and Jack's relationship explaining that while Miller wanted a romance Burke felt the characters should push romance to the side until they believe they are riding off to a safer place while promoting the film The Actors disclosed several ideas that Miller considered or even shot but ultimately cut Taylor Joy said that Miller shot but ultimately deleted a scene where furiosa cuts off dement's tongue an act which is mentioned but not shown in the the atrical version Burke said that Miller vetoed the idea of a training montage where Jack teaches furiosa about Road War because it was too much of a cliche on Facebook Jones posted that he expects Miller will release a director's cut. better Source needed post production haunted by his memories of a better past dementus vandalizes a copy of JW waterhouse's painting hus and the nymphs after conquering Gastown Miller used the paintings verdant watery setting to contrast with the burned out desert Landscapes of furi F furiosa Fury roads VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson returned for furiosa his home studio DN worked with frame store metaphysic doai Rising Sun pictures and slay devx he had received an Academy Award nomination for Fury Road and subsequently won the Oscar for tenet Jackson said that furiosa leans much more heavily than Fury Road on visual effects and that Miller completely embraced the idea that CG is the way to go to build worlds and do whatever we need to do in post in addition to traditional CG work such as augmenting backdrops and stitching together the work of multiple stuntmen who shot their scenes separately for safety reasons Jackson used VFX to heighten certain action scenes such as the stowaway action sequence where VFX animated the octobus demise and the final Chase sequence where a CGI version of furiosa's otherwise practical car was used to animate things just far too dangerous to be doing with a real car like side swiping motorbikes VFX helped generate a feeling of movement by making background elements move faster and animating flying equipment like the octobus Rippling black parachute as furiosa ages from a child to a young woman over the course of the film Miller and Jackson hired Rising Sun pictures to use machine learning a non-generative form of artificial intelligence to blend Taylor joy and Brown's faces together Taylor Joy said that Miller wanted the transition to be seamless she spent two days shooting with Rising Sun so that they could map her facial expressions by her estimate at the start of the film about percent of Brown's face was modified to look like her own a figure that increased to percent during Brown's final scenes in the Citadel furthermore in Taylor Joy's early scenes in the Citadel her eyes were partially modified to look more like Browns Taylor Joy stressed that the actor's Union went on strike in part to demand better regulation of AI tools and that Miller's use of AI was consensual metaphysic performed a similar function for the bullet farmer blending Lee Perry's facial features with those of the late Richard Carter who portrayed the bullet farmer in Fury Road impact on the Australian film industry according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Furioso was the most expensive film in Australian history with a budget of a dollar million over people worked on the film including some ex-convicts who were hired as supporting artists in addition to take advantage of Australian tax CRS for VFX work DN opened a Sydney Branch to spearhead special effect work on furiosa it estimated that the office once fully staffed would employ up to VFX artists the film was awarded extensive government subsidies including a filming incentive from the New South Wales government and various offsets from the federal government Miller said that government support made shooting in Australia possible the Queensland University of Technology Professor Amanda Lotz estimated that screen nssw contributed L million dollar in direct subsidies to furiosa's budget furthermore the federal government offers all qualifying films a tax rebate equivalent to percent of the amount of money the production spends in Australia Lots estimated the Federal rebate at AU million doll per of a dollar million and nsw Premier Gladis blian said that she hoped furiosa would contribute 0 million doll to the Australian economy although a May ABC report estimated the size of the nsw filming incentive as a million dollar over half the film's reported budget the ABC subsequently amended its report to remove that estimate other reports suggested that the Au million doll figure applies to the total size of the nsw subsidy fund spread out over 5 years and not to furiosa specifically furiosa's VFX artists allowed furiosa to keep shooting in Australia even though the weather in New South Wales was not ideal for a desert-based film by contrast Miller had to move the Fury Road shoot from Australia to Namibia because rain caused wild flowers to grow in the Australian desert which would not have happened in a post-apocalyptic Wasteland according to Fram store during the opening Chase sequence where Mary tracks furiosa's kidnappers through a series of sand dunes we ended up pretty much having to replace all of the ground colorist Eric whip who also worked on Fury Road said that because the desert scenes needed to look like Namibia and there was a huge mix of sunny and cloudy days during the shoot a lot of the backgrounds in this film are full CG Fury Road composer Tom holkenborg also known as junky XL returned to score furiosa this is his third collaboration with Miller after Fury Road and 3,000 years of longing Hulen Borg moved to Sydney to pen the score and also helped prepare the Final Mix he explained that because furiosa was a character-driven film The film's Score had to be character-driven as well musically everything was being told from a first-person perspective which is being her furiosa how she watches the world around her the Wasteland its cruelties Hulen Borg added that Miller wanted a way way more subtle score for furiosa than Fury Road the latter of which was just Massive Action over hours and an over-the-top rock opera in particular Miller vetoed reusing the song Brothers in Arms from Fury Road which plays when Max and furiosa help help each other escape the rock rider Canyon during the bullet Farm action sequence because he wanted to focus the audience's attention on the fact that furiosa was willing to sacrifice her best chance at finding the green place to save Jack's life and directed Hulen board to use fury roads musical motifs for the green place instead Miller explained that the bullet Farm sequence needed to be kind of a love story in the middle of an action scene he wanted to show that through their actions furiosa and Jack actually are prepared to give of themselves entirely to the other furthermore Hulen Borg used used AI to make deep fake voices from another voice explaining what if the source sound was a drum rhythm and what if the destination sound was an electric guitar but the software doesn't know what to make of it so it gave us a happy accident that we used throughout the score Warner Bros inh house record label water tower music released the official soundtrack album on May marketing on November the Warner Bros booth at ccxp featured a first look image of Taylor Joy furiosa the following day the teaser trailer of the film was released on March the official trailer debuted at cinemacon Warner Bros screened extended footage of the film on April Miller Taylor joy and Hemsworth appeared together for the first time in public to promote the film running about 5 minutes the extended preview shown at cineman revealed that the film would be split into three distinct chapters her Odyssey begins a warrior awakens and a ride into Vengeance the final film actually features a total of five chapters the poll of inaccessibility lessons from the Wasteland the stowaway Homeward and Beyond Vengeance a trio of firstlook images from the film were released exclusively by total film on April on May an extended sneak peeky was released by Odon Cinemas and was released on YouTube the following day