This is the cinema of Wake in Fright, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, The Overlanders, Jedda, Welcome to Woop Woop, Walkabout, Sweet Country, The Nightingale and so many more of our best and boldest films, each ruminating on the environment and the natural world in their own ways.
And we absolutely know that it will grapple with one of the key themes of the Mad Max franchise, which is also one of the most prominent and perhaps most important themes in the history of Australian film: coming to terms with the land. We can assume that Furiosa, when completed, will unfold at face-melting speed, and that the story will detail the protagonist’s life well before she fled the Citadel with Immortan Joe’s wives in the Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road. All it took to get him on board was a blockbuster of potentially unprecedented proportions. We do know that Anya Taylor-Joy – fresh from the success of The Queen’s Gambit – will play the lead role and Chris Hemsworth will co-star, marking Hemsworth’s first Australian film. W e don’t know much about the next Mad Max movie, Furiosa, yet beyond what can be gleaned from chest-beating PR announcements – such as claims it will be the biggest movie ever made in New South Wales and perhaps the biggest of all time in Australia.
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