George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the newest addition to the Mad Max franchise, and the film has never looked as grim and exhilarating at the same time in the series’ history. The film is a treat for every viewer who craves action and an immersive storyline at the same time. Despite the current film being a prequel series, Miller has not held back in creating a violent world as he goes all out in creating a post-apocalyptic world.
Despite having a disappointing run at the box office, Miller has done justice to the film, because he had decided to showcase every dehumanizing feature in the film. However, the director decided to ignore one tragic backstory that would have added to the protagonist’s tragedy.
George Miller Decided To Discard A Backstory That Would’ve Made Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga More Tragic
George Miller did everything in his capability to make Anya Taylor-Joy’s Furiosa have the most iconic look possible in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. With a shaved head and a mechanical arm, she has left quite a striking impression on her viewers. According to reports from Hollywood, it was planned that the film would feature how she was one of Immortan Joe’s wives but she was discarded because she could not give birth to his children.
More importantly, it was decided how Furiosa lost her arm, but Miller discarded the idea in his prequel film. The prequel would have filled in the gap of how she lost her arm during an epic fight with Dementus when she was involved in a fatal crash with his monster truck.
The report elaborated that she was “strung up by her arm to watch Praetorian Jack die.” To free herself, she had to take the drastic measure of chopping her arm off. A young Furiosa had tattoed a map to the Green Place on her arm, and losing it meant preventing herself from going home.
Anya Taylor-Joy explained the importance of losing the arm to Refinery29, telling them that losing the arm is sort of accepting her fate and becoming a “creature of the wasteland.” She said,
In the losing of the map, in the losing of her hair, she becomes a creature of the wasteland and kind of accepts the fact that there’s no going home in the same way. She can only return as the warrior she now is.
Had George Miller decided to include this heart-aching backstory in the film, it would have made the film more tragic to watch. Nevertheless, Miller has an interesting plan for the sequel series despite the film having an underwhelming run at the box office.
George Miller’s Plans For Furiosa After The Film’s Theatrical Run
Appearing as a guest on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz, the director of the prequel series was present on the podcast, where he shared his plans for the film after its theatrical run would come to an end.
The filmmaker wants the prequel series to follow in the footsteps of his previous film. He said,
It’s the last thing I did on this film, and I call it tinted black & chrome.
The black-and-white version of this film sounds quite intriguing, and it will be fun to watch a chrome version of the prequel film after the film’s run at the theatre comes to an end.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga can be watched in theatres near you.
