‘Furiosa’: New Image Teases the ‘Mad Max’ Prequel!! Check It Out!!

If there are two things we’re excited to see in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga are the new vehicles that director George Miller has come up with and Chris Hemsworth (Thor: Love and Thunder) in prosthetics and as a villain. Fortunately for fans, there’s both of those in the new image unveiled by Warner Bros. through Rotten Tomatoes. The stunning image is designed to get our engines revving and witness it before the blockbuster premieres in a couple of months.

The image is also a behind-the-scenes look at Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, meaning the colors aren’t the ones we’ll see when the time comes to flock to movie theaters. A camera can be seen behind Hemsworth, who is wearing goggles to protect his eyes from the sand. He also wears a white cape, which makes us wonder how the team managed to make the prop work in practical effects — usually capes are added digitally in post-production. Then again, it could be a scene in which the motorcycle isn’t moving at all.

In Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Hemsworth plays Dementus, a lunatic rival to Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) who is going to make her life difficult throughout the movie. He’s the leader of a biker horde that, as far as we know, could be the one that took her away from the Many Mothers and into the hands of Immortan Joe. The movie will span across several years, and we’ll see the transformation of Furiosa from a helpless girl into the ruthless woman we came to know in Mad Max: Fury Road.

While he spoke during last year’s CCXP in Brazil about the upcoming movie — which was also day one of its publicity campaign — Hemsworth described Dementus as a “violent, insane, brutal person that is born from the wasteland.” The Australian actor also added that Dementus is very much “a product of his environment,” meaning that we can expect the character to act the same way we’ve seen other characters in previous installments. He capped it off by saying that despite his ruthlessness, “there’s a charisma to him.”

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has been in the works for over a decade, and it’s one of the most anticipated titles of 2024. It has big shoes to fill, as the previous entry in the franchise is widely considered one of the best movies ever made. One of the secrets to the successful production was favoring practical effects rather than doing it all in front of a green screen, which, as it all indicates, has been reproduced in the new installment.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is slated to premiere in theaters on May 24.