Furious collapses at the box office
Unless there is an – unlikely – turning point in the situation, Furiosa: a Mad Max saga, released in France on May 22, 2024 after its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, it is expected to suffer a major failure at the global box office. Although much appreciated by critics, spectators did not fill the theaters. And by May 28 the film with Anya Taylor-Joy had only received $68 million in the world…
The wasteland rejected?
A very obvious disappointment, which could have an unfortunate consequence. In fact, it is during the development of Mad Max: Road Fury for which George Miller and his screenwriter Nico Lathouris developed the screenplay Furiousas well as another: The wasteland. Ever since he wrote, George Miller has wanted to direct The wastelandwhich would have taken place one before the events of Way of Fury and would focus on the character of Max and that of a young mother. Problem, the commercial failure of Furious could put a brake…
So, according to the sources of The Hollywood journalistthe fate of The Wasteland would currently be “complicated“from the poor performance of Furious at the box office. Logically, although George Miller is a legendary director and has the backing of Warner Bros. Pictures, the studios will still do the math right before making the project official.
George Miller himself recently talked about it success condition so that The wasteland can go on, in the podcast Happy Sad Confused.
A generational question
Choose Anya Taylor-Joy to wear Furious “rejuvenating” the character played by Charlize Theron in Way of Furyit was aimed at George Miller’s new film a more female and younger audience as the main focus of the Mad Max saga. Unfortunately, as reported The Hollywood journalistCinema attendance in American theaters is mainly due to an audience that is overwhelmingly male and older than the 18-24 age group, the one that goes to the cinema the most.
Which is not fundamentally a surprise, given that the Mad Max saga is now a 45-year-old franchise, historically carried forward by Mel Gibson and which has always turned its radicalism to a niche audience. We can therefore consider it of extraordinary quality Mad Max: Road Furybecome a cinema classicactually had an “anomalous” success at the box office.
But if Furious may have been a commercial failure, the Mad Max saga still remains adored and attractive. And if this failure could most likely postpone its development The wasteland – and also reduce its budgetary demands – neither George Miller nor Warner Bros. Pictures should not throw the project into oblivion.
Source: Cine Serie
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