‘Furiosa,’ the follow-up to ‘Mad Max: Fury Highway,’ will premiere at Cannes Movie Competition

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller’s eagerly awaited follow-up to “Mad Max: Fury Highway,” will make its world premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition in Might

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller’s eagerly awaited follow-up to “Mad Max: Fury Highway, ” will make its world premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition in Might.

“Furiosa,” a prequel to “Fury Highway” starring Anya Taylor-Pleasure, will roar down the Croisette 9 years after Miller’s earlier “Mad Max” movie did. After its 2015 bow at Cannes, “Fury Highway” went on to gross $380 million worldwide and win six Oscars.

“Furiosa,” screening out of competitors at Cannes, will premiere Might 15. The movie, co-starring Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke, options Taylor-Pleasure within the position performed by Charlize Theron in “Fury Highway.”

“The concept of this prequel has been with me for over a decade,” Miller mentioned in a press release. “I couldn’t be extra thrilled to return to the Competition de Cannes — together with Anya, Chris and Tom — to share ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.’ There isn’t a higher place than La Croisette to expertise this movie with audiences on the world stage.”

Miller’s earlier movie, 2022’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” additionally premiered at Cannes.

“Furiosa” will land in U.S. theaters Might 24. The 77th Cannes Movie Competition runs Might 14-25.