“Only the mad survive.” This is the motto of the new installment of the legendary post-apocalyptic franchise “Mad Max” starring Mel Gibson, which busted the box office during the eighties and became a legend of action cinema.
Mad Max: Fury Road is a new look at a world consumed by violence and barbarism in a setting dominated by desert, barren lands, cars, fire and the struggle to find gasoline. The head of this new adventure, for the constantly tormented Mad Rockatansky, is the director of the original trilogy – George Miller.
The official trailer for the film premiered last week at Comic-Con in San Diego (USA), a presentation that has become imperative with major world premieres relating to science fiction and film adventures.
Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) will be responsible for updating the franchise for the fourth time and bringing back to life the tormented avenger of the road. Sharing the spotlight with Oscar winner Charlize Theron (Monster, Prometheus). The beautiful Australian actress, almost unrecognizable in this film, plays the other major role of Empress Furious. The cast is also made up of other familiar names such as Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Hugh Keays-Byrne (Mad Max), Nathan Jones (Conan the Barbarian), Zoe Kravitz (Divergent), as well as supermodel and actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Transformers: Dark of the Moon).
The Oscar winner George Miller, yet again raises his own film franchise that began in 1979 with “Mad Max”, a film with a budget that was less than 300,000 euros, which then grossed a whopping 74 million worldwide. Soon after came “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” (1981) and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” (1985), where we could see the singer Tina Turner in the role of a ruthless villain.
Mad Max: Fury Road, shot almost entirely in the deserts of Namibia, where events will take place before the original trilogy storyline, with hopes of becoming an icon of post-apocalyptic cinema as were its predecessors. Its worldwide release is scheduled for May 22, 2015, although the producer is considering an earlier launch date of May 15 for some European countries.
