Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment Announces Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

 

“Furiosa will blow you away”

“One of the best prequels ever made”

ROGEREBERT.COM / Robert Daniels

 

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

The High-Octane Action Film from Visionary Director George Miller Becomes Available for Purchase and Rental

 

Debuts for Premium Digital Ownership and Rental on June 25

4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Arrive on August 13

 

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Black & Chrome Edition, which will also be featured in the Mad Max 5-Film 4K UHD Collector’s Edition

Coming Later this Year

Burbank, CA, June 18, 2024 – George Miller’sFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga, which reveals the captivating, never-before-told origin of Furiosa and her unrelenting drive to find her way back home, debuts for purchase and rental Digitally at home on June 25. 

As the world fell, young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth). Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

 

• On June 25, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be available for early Premium Digital Ownership at home for $29.99 and for 48-hour rental via PVOD for $24.99 SRP on participating digital platforms where you purchase or rent movies, including Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home, and more.

 

• On August 13, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be available to own on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD from online and physical retailers. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will also continue to be available to own in high definition and standard definition from participating digital retailers.

 

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is directed by Academy Award-winning director George Miller (Academy Award for Best Animated Feature – Happy Feet, The Mad Maxfranchise, The Witches of Eastwick).  Miller wrote the script with Mad Max: Fury Road co-writer Nico Lathouris. The film is produced by Doug Mitchell and George Miller.

 

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga stars Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queens Gambit) as Furiosa and Chris Hemsworth (Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Rush) as Dementus.  The film also stars Alyla Browne (Three Thousand Years of Longing) and Tom Burke (BBC’s War & Peace and The Musketeers).

 

Later this year Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Black & Chrome Edition will be available, a version of the theatrical film which has the color removed in favor of a black a chrome aesthetic.  Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaBlack & Chrome Edition will feature an introduction by director George Miller.

Additionally, a 5-film collection featuring 1979’s acclaimed post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max, 1981’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road and 2024’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be released together on 4K Ultra HD later this year. Created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy, Miller directed or co-directed all five films in the Mad Max franchise. 

 

DIGITAL, 4K, BLU-RAY & DVD ELEMENTS

 

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Premium Digital Ownership, 4K UHD and Blu-ray contain the following special features:  

4K UHD

• Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa
• Stowaway to Nowhere
• Metal Beasts & Holy Motors
• Darkest Angel: Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa
• Motorbike Messiah: Chris Hemsworth as Dementus

Blu-ray

• Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa
• Stowaway to Nowhere

 

BASICS

 

Premium Digital Ownership: June 25, 2024

4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Street Date: August 13, 2024

 

4K Languages: English, Canadian French, Italian, Latin Spanish

4K Subtitles: Swedish, Latin Spanish, Norwegian, Italian, Parisian French, Canadian French, Finnish, English SDH, Danish

BD Languages: English, Canadian French, Latin Spanish

BD Subtitles: English SDH, Canadian French, Parisian French, Latin Spanish

DVD Languages: English, Canadian French, Latin Spanish

DVD Subtitles: Latin Spanish, Korean, Parisian French, Canadian French, English SDH,

Chinese – Complex, Cantonese 

 

Running Time: 148 minutes

Rating: R for sequences of strong violence, and grisly images 

DVD: DLBY/DGTL

4K UHD and Blu-ray: ATMOS TrueHD, DLBY/DGTL

 

 

THE CREDITS

 

Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the much-anticipated return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 40 years ago with the seminal Mad Max films. Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smashMad Max: Fury Road. The new feature from Warner Bros. Pictures is produced by Miller and his longtime partner, Oscar-nominated producer Doug Mitchell (Mad Max: Fury Road, Babe), under their Australian-based Kennedy Miller Mitchell banner. 

 

As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

 

Taylor-Joy stars in the title role, and along with Hemsworth, the film also stars Tom Burke and Alyla Browne. 

 

Miller penned the script with Mad Max: Fury Road co-writer Nico Lathouris. Miller’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes first assistant director PJ Voeten and action designer Guy Norris, director of photography Simon Duggan (Hacksaw Ridge, The Great Gatsby), composer Tom Holkenborg, supervising sound editor Robert Mackenzie, editor Eliot Knapman, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and supervising colorist Eric Whipp. The team also includes other longtime collaborators: production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, production sound Ben Osmo, costume designer Jenny Beavan and hair and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, each of whom won an Oscar for their work on Mad Max: Fury Road. 

 

Warner Bros. Pictures Presents A Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production, A George Miller Film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The film is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.

 

 

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