WonderCon 2015: Warner Bros. Unveils New Trailer for 'Mad Max: Fury Road'

Warner Bros. on Saturday, April 4, debuted new never-been-seen footage along with their brand new trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road, during the studio's film panel presentation at the 2015 WonderCon comic book, science fiction, and motion picture convention at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Directed, produced and co-written by George Miller, the post-apocalyptic action thriller Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy as the new Mad Max and Charlize Theron as the one-armed Imperator Furiosa, along with Nicholas Hoult as Nux and Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus. For the ladies collectively known as The Five Wives, Zoë Kravitz is Toast, Riley Keough is Capable, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is Splendid, Abbey Lee is The Dag, and Courtney Eaton is Fragile. Hugh Keays-Byrne plays the Immortan Joe. Also in the cast are Josh Helman as Slit, Jennifer Hagan as Miss Giddy, singer/songwriter/performer iOTA as Coma-Doof Warrior,  John Howard as The People Eater, Richard Carter as the Bullet Farmer, supermodel Megan Gale as Valkyrie, Angus Sampson as the Organic Mechanic, and Joy Smithers, Gillian Jones, Melissa Jaffer and Melita Jurisic in still undisclosed roles. Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road is scheduled to hit theaters beginning May 15.

Described as beginning at the tail-end of a 20-minute chase sequence that opens the movie, the video sequence shown at WonderCon kicked off with Max waking up in the middle of a desert. As he stands, we see not only that has he a cage-like mask around his face, he is also chained to the wrist of an unconscious Nux. Unable to free himself from the chain, Max carries Nux, a car door, and the defective shotgun he previously tried to use to blast off the wrist of his captor. Along the way, he runs into the Imperator Furiosa and The Five Wives. After demanding "water," supposedly Hardy's first line in the film, and trying to get the women to cut his chains cut off, Max and Furiosa went at each others' throat, tripping, rolling and throwing each other across the sandy, barren landscape, with both the women and the now revived Nux also trying to grab a piece of the action.

Mad Max: Fury Road, according to the studio's official synopsis, takes place somewhere in the furthest reaches of a post-apocalypse world, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland. Haunted by his turbulent past, Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by Furiosa, an elite Imperator, who are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows.