All the stars at the Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Sydney premiere
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the biggest film ever made in Australia, so it was only fitting that it should open globally with a colossal Sydney premiere.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the biggest film ever made in Australia, so it was only fitting that it should open globally with a worthy and colossal Sydney premiere.
The film stars A-listers Anya Taylor-Joy and homegrown action hero Chris Hemsworth, who walked the red carpet at Sydney’s State Theatre alongside director George Miller to launch the fifth film in his acclaimed Mad Max series.
It’s been nine years since Mad Max: Fury Road came out in theatres, and with six Oscar wins from 10 nominations it cemented itself as one of the best action films of the decade.
But the Furiosa project has been in the works for much longer.
During the decade and a half it took to bring Fury Road to the screen, Miller and his co-writer, Nick Lathouris, developed backstories for every character, including The Doof Warrior, the steel-masked rocker who shreds a double-necked, flame-spewing guitar.
That’s how Miller ended up with his prequel, which tells the origin story of Joy’s Furiosa – played in Fury Road by Charlize Theron – who is kidnapped from her homeland, the Green Place, one of the few fertile places left in the film’s apocalyptic universe, by Hemsworth’s Dementus, a grizzled, bearded, bikie warlord.
Furiosa is much bigger than its predecessors.
With a budget of $343m, the movie, filmed entirely in NSW, is the most expensive Australian movie ever made.
The film was shot in 2022 across NSW in Broken Hill, Hay and Kurnell, injecting $350m into the local economy.
Also walking the carpet were the film’s supporting stars Alyla Browne, Lachy Hulme, Charlee Fraser, and Elsa Pataky, Hemsworth’s wife of 14 years. As well as producer Doug Mitchell.
Furiosa is Hemsworth’s first purely Australian film since leaving for Hollywood in 2007.
He and Pataky, 47, saw Fury Road at the cinema together in London back in 2015, where he was shooting an Avengers movie. “This is the best film I’ve ever seen,” he told The Weekend Australian Magazine. “I have to work with George. Whatever he’s doing next.”
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