Earlier this year, Warner Bros. announced a July 23, 2023 release date for director George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (watch it HERE) prequel Furiosa, which won’t begin filming in the Australian state of New South Wales until sometime next year. That was a surprisingly short start-of-production to theatrical release window, given that Fury Road started filming in July 2012 and wasn’t released until May 2015 – so it makes sense that Warner Bros. has now delayed the release of Furiosa by almost an entire year. The film is now set to reach theatres on Memorial Day weekend in 2024. That would make its release date May 24, 2024. Nine years and nine days after the release of Mad Max: Fury Road.
Furiosa will be the biggest production ever for Australia and is expected to create 850 jobs and bring $350 million AUD (around $272 million USD) to the local economy.
Anya Taylor-Joy is signed to play the title character, who was played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road. Since the focus is on a different character, Miller said this will be a “unique” entry in the Mad Max franchise, but will still be familiar to fans. Taylor-Joy is joined in the cast by Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
Details on the plot have not been revealed, but Miller told the Sydney Morning Herald,
Whereas Fury Road essentially happened over three days and two nights, this happens over many years.”
Before Furiosa gets rolling, Miller will finish up post-production work on Three Thousand Years of Longing, a romance drama starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.
I would much rather be getting another Mad Max movie instead of a Furiosa prequel, but hopefully this movie will be interesting enough, and packed with enough action, that I won’t be left wishing Miller had made another movie about Max instead.