MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Featurette Explores the Franchise Legacy
35 years ago, director George Miller introduced the world to Mad Max, and this summer the next chapter in the franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, will be unleashed. As we wait to see the insane action-apacked story unfold on the big screen, Warner bros. has released a new featurette that explores the Mad Max legacy.
Mad Max: Fury Road offers post-apocalyptic action set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life.
Within this world of fire and blood exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There’s Max (Hardy), a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos and Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
Co-written and directed by George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy as “Mad” Max Rockatansky, the character played by Mel Gibson in Miller’s original three films. It also stars Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, X-Men: Days of Future Past), Hugh Keays-Byrne (Mad Max, Sleeping Beauty), Nathan Jones (Conan the Barbarian, Troy), Zoe Kravitz (Divergent, X-Men: First Class), Riley Keough (The Runaways, Magic Mike), and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Transformers: Dark of the Moon). The movie hits theaters on May 15th, 2015.