The first trailer for Australian director George Miller's fourth Mad Max film, Fury Road, has been unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con. The rebooted franchise sees Tom Hardy step into Mel Gibson's shoes as the "road warrior" doing battle in the deserts of an dystopian future Australia. Charlize Theron also stars as the shaven-headed Imperator Furiosa; the film's chief villain, Immortan Joe, is played by Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played Toecutter in the first film.
Miller had said that Fury Road will extend the story of the original film, and will be "almost a continuous chase". "Chase movies are the purest form of cinema," he said. "[I] wanted to make one long chase and pick up the story along the way. It was certainly familiar, but a lot of time has passed, the technology has changed." There wasn't a conventional script, but a detailed storyboard put together by Miller and his co-writers, chief among them the British comic-book artist Brendan McCarthy.
The first Mad Max film was released in 1979. It was the second, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), which brought the series' star, Mel Gibson, to worldwide fame. It was followed by a third film, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), in which Tina Turner played Aunty Entity, the glamorous ruler of the desert community of Bartertown. Miller has been trying to make a fourth film for 25 years; shooting on Fury Road was beset with difficulties, with filming moved from New South Wales to Namibia after heavy rain made the Australian desert bloom with wildflowers .
All the Mad Max films are set in a post-apocalyptic world in which oil has become scarce; competing groups battle with each other in weaponised vehicles to seize control of what remains. Although the original movies were partly inspired by the oil crisis of 1973, Miller has said that the message is still relevant today. "In many ways we're sort of doomed to repeat the whole history," he said. "We arguably have been fighting oil wars ever since."
Mad Max: Fury Road will be released on May 15 2015
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