The wheels are lubricated on the hot expected grease Mal Max spin-off Furiosa, who will star Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth.
A press conference attended by directors George Miller and Hemsworth took place today in the Australian state of New South Wales to confirm that the spin-off is ready to be filmed in the area next year.
Miller is now in production on his romance photo Thousand years of longing and will from there in Furiosa, who will star The Queen’s Gambit actress Taylor-Joy in the original story of the titular Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road.
According to AP, the film is expected to be made the largest in Australia ever made. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said today the project will inject at least $ 350 million AUD into the local economy and create 850 jobs.
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Good news that the Mad Max prelude – Furiosa starring Chris Hemsworth – will be filmed here in NSW. The largest film ever made in Australia, supporting more than 850 local jobs and bringing $ 350 million into the economy. pic.twitter.com/HzZXcqeAUt
– Gladys Berejiklian (@GladysB) 19 April 2021
As reported by The Sydney Morning Herald Miller said the team planned to film a major action sequence from the film this year due to a proposed cut in the Aussie state’s tax incentive and had already built cars and prepared stunts. However, the tax rebate decision has now been reversed, and government representatives today confirmed the news from earlier this month that it will henceforth remain at 40%, giving producers more time.
Miller said during the press release that the long-term project is finally hitting floors due to stability at the Warner Bros. studio. ‘Since we started Furyweg “I think there were six different regimes at Warner Bros.,” he said. “Now it’s very stabilized and they can basically pay coherent attention to the movies they want to make, and that’s one of them.”
He added that Furiosa would be a ‘unique’ delivery in the franchise, but fans of the series would be familiar. The director also stressed that he is looking forward to watching the film in a cinema; Warner used a day-and-date policy for its entire theatrical magazine in 2021, meaning all of its releases will go directly online, but has since confirmed it will change from 2022.
Furiosa will be released on June 23, 2023.
Chris Hemsworth joined Miller during the press event. The actor is currently shooting in his native Aus Thor: Love and thunder. He describes the work to Furiosa as the “biggest pinch-myself moment, because I grew up after it [Mad Max] and it’s so iconic … It’s a great honor. Lots of pressure, but exciting pressure that definitely motivates. ”
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II also plays in Furiosa in an unknown role.
Furyweg had a particularly rocky production in particular, and the entire crew was forced to move to Namibia to complete the film after the Australian again interrupted the original recording. The film premiered in Cannes in 2015 and earned $ 376 million worldwide. In 2017, a lawsuit was filed by Miller’s production company Kennedy Miller Mitchell over an unpaid bonus from Warner, which jeopardized the sequels.
Australia has been named “Aussie Wood” this year after several sensational productions located there due to the country’s success with handling Covid. You can read more about it in Deadline‘s recent feature.