Furiosa could make an impact at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, 9 years after Fury Road
Mad Max could set the Croisette on fire again!
George Miller will restart the engines. In 2024, he will return to the world of Mad Max For Furiosathe prequel dedicated to the character played by Charlize Theron In Fury Road in 2015 and now not embodied Anya Taylor-Joyin front of Chris Hemsworth in the role of the villain.
And according to the American press, Warner Bros. plans to launch Furisoa on the Croisette, during the next Cannes festival. Very effective launch pad for Mad Max: Fury Road At the time, the film was shown out of competition on the Côte d’Azur, just before being released in theaters, and winning $374 million in worldwide revenue (and 6 Oscars).
According to a studio source, the provisional plan would therefore be to bring Furiosa on the Croisette, even if Warner Bros. does not want to confirm and only speaks “from a rumor“. Variety points out that this can only be done if the schedules of the film’s stars are free at the time of the festval. However, these discussions cannot take place until the SAG-AFTRA strike is over.
But the Cannes festival would strike another big blow by hosting one of the film events of the year 2024. “We have had extraordinary memories of the world premiere of Fury Road at Cannes. It would be wonderful to welcome them back with Furiosaespecially since George Miller was a wonderful president of the jury in 2016. I know he is working on the film and I hope he will be at Cannes“, comments the festival director, Thierry Frémaux, interviewed by Variety.
let’s remember that George Miller was on the Croisette in 2022 with Three thousand years waiting for youout of competition.
