Prepare to go again to Fury Street.
A brand new “Mad Max” film hits theaters this month, the franchise’s fifth, and a video launched over the weekend by producer Warner Bros. gives a style of the autos set to look on display screen, which within the case of a Mad Max film sometimes become as notable because the human characters.
Entitled “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” and directed by franchise creator George Miller, the film is a prequel to 2015 hit “Mad Max: Fury Street,” and tells the story of Imperator Furiosa, performed beforehand by Charlize Theron. The brand new story spans roughly 15 years of Furiosa’s formative years, with a lot of the sequences starring Anya Taylor-Pleasure within the position. Her nemesis this time is the brand new character Dementus, performed by Chris Hemsworth.
In some scenes, Furiosa will be seen piloting the well-known Struggle Rig, albeit what seems to be a more energizing model of it. The semi-trailer truck from hell relies on a Kenworth W900 truck, and produces 617 hp. That does not sound like a lot, however its torque score, which is extra essential for vehicles hauling heavy hundreds, is 2,050 lb-ft.
Dementus goes up towards the Struggle Rig with an assortment of autos. There is a chariot much like what you may discover in historical Athens or Rome, solely as an alternative of horses it’s pulled by a trio of bikes, with the lead bike that includes a large radial cycle engine which within the film was seemingly taken from the wreckage of an previous mild plane.
The video additionally reveals a Plymouth Valiant, a Volkswagen Beetle merged with a motorbike, and a motorbike with its rear wheel swapped for a snowmobile’s monitor. Whereas the entire autos are cool, the star little doubt is the Six Foot. It is a Mack DM-800 became a monster truck, and it is seemingly the flagship journey of Dementus’ assortment.
For Max followers, it does not appear to be titular character Max Rockatansky makes an look, and meaning his Pursuit Particular, an XB-series 1973 Ford Falcon GT coupe, seemingly does not seem both.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will hit theaters on Could 24.