Furiosa is a leaner, meaner Mad Max story

George Miller’s Furiosa paints a broader picture of Mad Max’s apocalyptic world while letting its heroine play second fiddle in her own film.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Image: Warner Bros.

Fury Road jolted the Mad Max franchise back to life with concentrated doses of high-octane, practically produced spectacle ripped directly out of director George Miller’s twisted imagination. The film framed its titular hero as more of an idea than a man and, by doing so, created space for one of Miller’s most

→ Continue reading at The Verge