Principal photography is underway in Australia on Academy Award-winning filmmaker George Miller‘s Furiosa, the much-anticipated return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal Mad Max films.
The original new standalone action adventure will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smash Mad Max: Fury Road. Anya Taylor-Joy stars in the title role, alongside Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.
The new movie is being produced by Miller’s own Australian-based Kennedy Miller Mitchell banner, together with the filmmaker’s Fury Road partners Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures.
Furiosa is officially described as follows: “As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus.
“Sweeping throuh the Wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.”
Miller wrote the script with Mad Max: Fury Road co-writer Nico Lathouris and produces alongside his longtime partner, Oscar-nominated producer Doug Mitchell (Mad Max: Fury Road, Babe).
Miller’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes such longtime Australian collaborators as production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, sound mixer Ben Osmo, costume designer Jenny Beavan and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, each of whom won an Oscar for their work on Mad Max: Fury Road, as well as first assistant director PJ Voeten and second unit director and stunt coordinator Guy Norris.
The director of photography is Simon Duggan (Hacksaw Ridge, The Great Gatsby). The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Taylor-Joy was most recently seen in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and Robert Eggers’ The Northman. She also played the lead in the romantic comedy Emma, based on the Jane Austen novel.
Her additional features include the sci-fi thrillers Split from M. Night Shyamalan, and his follow up Glass, in which she reprised her role from the previous film. She also starred as a chess prodigy in massively successful miniseries The Queen’s Gambit.
Hemsworth is right at home with high-octane action, having starred in the Avengers and Thor films, as well as the recent Extraction. He can currently be seen in Netflix’s Spiderhead and next in theaters on July 8 in Thor: Love and Thunder.
His other film credits include Bad Times at the El Royale, 12 Strong, In the Heart of the Sea, Rush, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Star Trek, among many others.
Burke is perhaps best-known for his award-nominated role in Joanna Hogg’s film The Souvenir, as well as playing the lead in the popular UK crime series C.B. Strike.
He also starred as Athos in the BBC series The Musketeers, appeared in such feature films as Nicholas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, and played famed filmmaker Orson Welles in David Fincher’s Oscar-winning Mank.