Mad Max: Fury Road was praised for continuing the series' tradition of high-octane desert action sequences, and it sounds like upcoming prequel Furiosa is well on track to live up to that.
Director George Miller's longtime producing partner Doug Mitchell hinted at one particularly in-depth action scene in a new interview with Total Film (via GamesRadar), saying the film "has one 15-minute sequence which took us 78 days to shoot." He added that it required nearly 200 stunt workers on set daily.
Unfortunately, we didn't get many more details on that sequence could entail, at least not from Mitchell. However, star Anya Taylor-Joy, who plays a younger version of the title character that Charlize Theron originated in 2015's Fury Road, teased a little bit more about what leads up to it.
"You see an accumulation of skills over the course of a battle, and that’s very important for understanding how resourceful Furiosa is.
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"George and I would have these big conversations about why this particular set-piece was so long," Taylor-Joy told Total Film. "It’s because you see an accumulation of skills over the course of a battle, and that’s very important for understanding how resourceful Furiosa is, but also her grit."
Taylor-Joy added that it's "the longest sequence any of us have ever shot": "On the day we finished, everybody got a 'Stairway To Nowhere' wine!"
The highly anticipated prequel is set 15-20 years before the events of Fury Road, and will serve as an origin story for the hardened warrior we saw in Theron's portrayal. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga finds the character after she's snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers by a Biker Horde led by Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), and it'll follow her as she fights her way home through the warring Wasteland.
We've gotten a glimpse at that struggle through a number of trailers over the past few months, and lucky attendees at CinemaCon got a look at some extended footage a couple of weeks ago.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga hits theaters on May 24, 2024.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
