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FURIOSA PRODUCTION

W hen Australian filmmaker George Miller first introduced the world to ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky, a police officer turned vigilante living in a dystopian near future, little did he know he’d end up speeding down that apocalyptic highway five more times over the next 45 years. In the most recent outing for the franchise, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga , we travel back 15 years before the events of Fury Road ,

with Alyla Browne and Anya Taylor- Joy taking over from Charlize Theron to explain how Imperator Furiosa came to be in the wasteland. Treading the visual path laid out by David Eggby, ACS, Dean Semler, AM, ACS, ASC and John Seale AM, ACS, ASC, the film’s DOP Simon Duggan, ASC, ACS sought to honour the franchise and expand the worldbuilding. “I knew this needed to be the same world visually, yet in Furiosa we find a

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