Do we really need this? Charlize Theron kicked ass in Fury Road but do we really need a two hour movie for what should just be backstory?
https://screenrant.com/mad-max-furiosa-prequel-movie-release-date-2023/
Warner Bros. has officially announced that Furiosa will hit theaters on July 21, 2023
shareWhat's the point of doing a Furiosa prequel unless there's plans to do a Furiosa sequel? Why invest further time into that character? What more is there to even bother knowing about this setting? It's a mistake to stop traveling and seeing fantastic new places and meeting new characters.
shareThey do have plans to make a Fury Road sequel.
sharethese are just post apocalyptic road warrior rip off films to me so whatever.
shareomg...
shareSo they're finally admitting this movie was about her, not Max.
shareYes. We (many) absolutely need it. Some (mainly those in always such positive places like these) don’t want it, then don’t watch. Simple... but not really.
Excited for it I am.
If the trailer looks good, I'll see it, but I'm not sure how much backstory is needed.
Still, I suppose there is something there. Furiosa is trusted by Joe, she's high up in the ranks, and then she decides to leave. So what makes her serve Joe could be interesting, especially if they make it good and dark. Like, if we find out Furiosa used to be kind of a jerk. It's obvious that her motivation for leaving Joe is that she hates his treatment of the brides, but what made her stick around that long? Was she playing the long game to save these women by building up a rep as a good little soldier right up until she turned on him? Or was she once a fanatical warrior who didn't care about the brides and only later grew a conscience?
Side note: Chris Hemsworth shows up in a LOT of female-centric action movies. You ever notice that? Men in Black: International and Ghostbusters were both reboots/soft reboots of formerly male-centred action films now with female leads. Hemsworth is second banana in both. Here he is again... Even Cabin in the Woods, arguably, has this, and Snow White and the Huntsman. I'm not saying that's good or bad, I'm just saying it's a weird niche that he's carving out.
Arguably it's happening in Thor as well ...
shareWell, again, I don't have a problem with female-centred action movies or men playing second-banana. I just think it's interesting that Chris Hemsworth seems to be doing it a lot. It's like when you find out that an actor happens to have appeared in a tonne of movies doing very specific things with very specific co-stars, or the moment you realize how much running Tom Cruise is always doing.
shareI honestly hadn't noticed that. That is interesting to say the least.
shareI noted it when he did MIB: International. It also struck me because it's one of the few things that starred Hemsworth and got a big release that wasn't a Marvel title.
shareWhat's weirder is this will probably be Hemsworth's best career movie (knock on wood) since Rush. He should fire his agent if this flops too.
shareFrom what I've seen and heard of his comic skills, it sounds like he's one of the funnier parts of otherwise not-that-funny films and maybe he should pick up a couple indie comedies with people like Wes Anderson or the Coen Brothers. He should show people he has a different angle than Thor.
shareNot a terrible suggestion.
shareOne of Elijah Wood's best moves post-LOTR was Sin City. He went from the naive, wide-eyed, sweet hobbit Frodo to creepy, mute, psychotic, sex-repressed serial killing cannibal Kevin. Good luck typecasting now, boys...
When actors are typecast, they can either play that typecasting to the hilt and try to buck it. And I find that, if they're bucking it, they have to seek out smaller roles, usually in smaller movies, and put themselves in the hands of top-grade filmmakers. They shouldn't get into a blockbuster. Indie's the way to go.
Hemsworth also seems to have a knack for comedy, and it's always cool when somebody like a leading actor, mostly thought of as being really, really, ridiculously good-looking, lets themselves be a buffoon. Some of the funniest moments in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt were Jon Hamm making an ass of himself.
I'd expect nothing more from a cuck with muscles who wants Charlize Theron to be the next James Bond.
shareI'd rather see George Miller spend his time making a Mad Max sequel with Tom Hardy, rather than a Furiosa movie with a different actress.
share+1
shareI want a Mad Max anthology series where he's traveling around the wasteland and finding different villages to help, psychos to run from, new desert cult-civilizations, etc. It'd be kinda cool to have them all two-parters, too, like a more serious version of Adam West's Batman show. Mad Max has just the tip of its tongue in its cheek to get away with a little cheesy/schlock amidst the otherwise gritty, action-packed stuff (I'm thinking electric flamethrower guitar).
But, yeah, absent a series, I'd go for more Tom Hardy Mad Max.