Start your engines, round up your War Boys, and get ready to ride eternal, shiny and chrome: George Miller is roaring back into the Mad Max world with Furiosa, his long-awaited prequel about Fury Road’s beloved breakout character. In 2015, Miller finally unleashed the odyssey he’d long dreamed of making – and now, he’s delving deep into Imperator Furiosa’s mysterious past, with Anya Taylor-Joy taking the wheel from Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth screeching into the desert as deranged new Wasteland Warlord, Dementus. Buckle up: the summer’s wildest ride is here.
The new issue of Empire straps in for a breakneck journey through Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – hopping aboard with Miller, Taylor-Joy, Hemsworth and more to get the inside story on a film that fans have waited nearly 10 long years for. Inside, we dig into the origins of Furiosa’s long road to the screen, meet its array of new marauders, and explore all the on-set mayhem that Miller once more unleashed to follow up cinema’s greatest petrol-fume-fuelled trip. It’s a world-exclusive deep-dive, packed with brand new interviews and never-before-seen images – all for a film due to set the screen ablaze this May.
The newsstand cover sees Anya Taylor-Joy ready for action as Furiosa, with Dementus standing atop his flame-spewing monster truck.
And the subscriber cover scrawls over Furiosa with wild energy – photographed by Jasin Boland, with illustration by Steve Reeves.
All that, and there’s plenty more inside the issue. We get the first word on Jerry Seinfeld’s wild new Pop-Tarts movie, reunite the key players of The Sopranos for a roundtable interview, get embroiled in Alex Garland’s Civil War, go toe-to-pointed-toe with ballerina vampire Abigail, meet the talented Mr. Andrew Scott to talk Ripley, pull the trigger with Richard Linklater on his hired-gun comedic thriller Hit Man, speak to the one and only Cate Blanchett, and much more.
It’s an issue you won’t want to miss – fill your tank with guzzoline, and head down to your local newsstand to pick up a copy on Thursday 14 March. Pre-order a copy online here. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga comes to UK cinemas from 24 May.