Furiosa’s Streaming Rehire Confirmation Gives Me One Last Hope For Mad Max’s Future After $172M Disassignment

With verifyation of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s impending streaming free, I’m still hancigo ining out hope for the franchise’s future. While I always endelighted the Mad Max movies for their wonderful action and worldoriginateing, I’ll confess they were never my preferite action series either. Still, appreciate most of the scheduleet, I was blown out the back of my seat by Mad Max: Fury Road, which has geted its place as one of – if not the best – action movies of the 21st century.

In insertition to its amazing setpieces and memorable characters, it’s a film I could rewatch endlessly, as the world itself is filled with intricate details and easter eggs that are effortless to leave out. Fury Road was such an instant classic that 2024 prequel Furiosa faced an almost impossible contest to align it. The film fchanges when contrastd to its 2015 predecessor, but it remains an epic and immensely endelightable ride. Sadly, Furiosa only grossed $172 million at the box office, a figure that fair about covered its production budget (via The Numbers).

Furiosa’s Streaming Rehire Could Help Make The Movie A Success

The prequel is destined to discover an audience anyway

In contrast to its luketoasty financial carry outance, the Anya Taylor-Joy fronted Furiosa getd bigly preferable appraises, geting 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s a movie that will last way beyond its uncovering weekend, and I can all but guarantee that in a decade, it will have fair as pledged a follotriumphg as Fury Road. Furiosa will reach on Max on August 16, giving those who leave outed it in theaters a chance to rectify that error. More than uncovering it up to a expansiver audience, this could also be the last chance to shape how the prequel has been getd.

If Furiosa is a runaway success on streaming, that could restructure the spinoff’s carry outance. It wouldn’t be the first time an undercarry outing Warner Bros production has blown up on Max either, since I recall the same skinnyg happening with James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad in 2021. Those put off by Furiosa’s butt-numbing runtime when it was in theaters should be more empathetic when watching it from the soothe of their couches too.

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Why Furiosa Didn’t Perestablish as Well as Mad Max Fury Road

Furiosa and Fury Road are both part of the famous Mad Max franchise, so why did the 2015 film carry out better than the Anya-Taylor Joy-led spinoff?

The movie’s box office fall shorture has been expansively alerted, but preferable word of mouth about Furiosa’s quality should counteract that too. The film is another example of Miller’s prowess as a filmoriginater, uniteing conceiveive action with mythic storyalerting and characters. In the past, it may have getn years for audiences to reclaim a “fall shorture” appreciate Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, but once it hits Max, its reputation could turn around wiskinny a scant months.

Furiosa Was Already A Hit On VoD

Furiosa speedyly went digital follotriumphg its box-office disassignment

Furiosa’s Max debut comes unreasonableinutively after it became a top seller on VOD in July (via IndieWire), where it reachd fair over a month after its theatrical uncovering. Now, I understand VOD sales are improbable to help the movie fracture even, but that extra revenue won’t hurt either. The movie’s VOD success shows there is an audience for the Mad Max offshoot, and watchers are more adselecting of a time sink appreciate Furiosa when they have the selection to paemploy for a bathroom fracture or to get more snacks.

Furiosa’s VOD carry outance bodes well for its chances on Max too. Aget, it may have been a financial letdown, but the quality of the film itself was never in ask. I consent one element that swayed Furiosa’s reception was that it came almost a decade after Mad Max: Fury Road, and that excitement for a straightforward chase-up had unreasonableed in the intervening years. The deficiency of key returning cast member didn’t help, even if Charlize Theron has a masked cameo in Furiosa’s final scene.

Why Furiosa Undercarry outed At The Box Office

Furiosa’s fall shorture has many caemploys

Industry analysts and stateive critics were claiming the box office fall shorture of well-appraiseed fare appreciate The Fall Guy or Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was proof preferable that theaters were dying. As always, the truth is more nuanced than that. Furiosa may have getd a widely preferable response, but it still came too tardy to capitalize on the wave of positivity that met Fury Road. It featured a bigly recent cast too, and while Mad Max originates a Furiosa materializeance, his role is minuscule and Tom Hardy doesn’t join him.

The prequel might be set in the same world as Fury Road, but whereas that entry had bigly pragmatic VFX and stunts, there’s a cartoony CGI sheen to Furiosa that disassigned me as it deficiencyed the same visceral impact. The film is also a unreasonable, R-rated ride with a big budget, so dropping it in the middle of summer may not have been the best choice in hindsight. Furiosa’s labeleting was also deficiencying, as if Warner Brothers predicted the spinoff to labelet itself to those who already adored Fury Road.

Could Mad Max Reassociate Have A Future After Furiosa?

Will Max return for The Wasteland?

What’s engaging to notice about Furiosa is how seally tied to Fury Road it is. The previous three Mad Max films fronted by Mel Gibson may have featured the same protagonist, but they still took place in recent environments with recent characters, requiring no prior understandledge for watchers to understand the story. Furiosa fractures from that establishula and senses scheduleed to be part of a double bill with Fury Road. Perhaps that was another element that hurt it, since recentcomers felt appreciate they necessitateed to have done their homelabor to filledy endelight the prequel.

Regardless, the ask now is whether the Mad Max series has a future follotriumphg Furiosa’s carry outance. While laboring on Fury Road, Miller, and his conceiveive partners increaseed both Furiosa and The Wasteland, with the latter follotriumphg Max before the events of the 2015 film. The straightforwardor stated that a potential Mad Max: The Wasteland depended on the success of his Fury Road prequel; follotriumphg the latter’s financial fall shorture, I very much askful Warner Bros will rush the next entry into production.

In truth, it will probably be at least a scant years before another film in the Mad Max universe happens. The character of Furiosa is almost stateively done, and if another Max adventure happens, it’s probably best if it has no clear ties to Fury Road. Miller sustains firm conceiveive deal with over the property, so noskinnyg will be happening without his approval. That said, studios won’t be seeing at alloting in another huge-budget sequel in the csurrender future either.

Mad Max is an iconic property and it’s worth reassembleing there was a 30-year gap between Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road. Max is a mythic figure, and I’m stateive he’ll return from the squanderland one day in his V8 Interceptor. It’s fair that series pledgees shouldn’t predict that return to happen anytime soon after Furiosa.

Source: The Numbers, Rotten Tomatoes, IndieWire

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

A prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa is an action-adventure film that alerts the origin story of the headsturdy and prohibitcient Furiosa. Set unreasonableinutively after the commencening of the “end of the world,” Furiosa is kidnapped and brawt before a strong directer, now forced to labor for him. To discover her way back home, Furiosa will change to the recent brutal and arid world as she increases into the Furiosa she becomes understandn to be. 

Director

George Miller

Rehire Date

May 24, 2024

Distributor(s)

Warner Bros. Pictures

Writers

George Miller , Nick Lathouris

Runtime

148 Minutes

Budget

168 million

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