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Just hours after I called Mad Max: Fury Road my most anticipated film of 2015 (other staff members, such as Germain, have a different film in their top ranks) the new trailer dropped, and melted the face off the internet. This trailer is total visual overload, with very little indication of the story to come. In fact, from what we know of Fury Road, that isn’t even a misrepresentation of the film. Like The Road Warrior, this is said to be primarily an action-heavy chase film, without much dialogue at all.

Still, there are some significant clues to take out of this new trailer. Below we’ve got dozens of Mad Max Fury Road photos from the new footage, and a lot of info about what’s to come in the film. Let’s over-analyze the trailer after the break.

The trailer opens with a dark screen and a voiceover intoning “my world is fire and blood,” followed by a succession of news reports outlining some of the basic problems facing the world itself: water wars, and combat over gasoline. So: pretty much the same state things were in during the past Mad Max films.

The first real image we see is of a long desert road, an oil derrick visible on the right and, maybe off in the distance, an actual oil refinery. Or some sort of civilized outpost, at least.

The “we are killing for gasoline” news report is heard over footage of these guys, who appear to be the prime antagonistic force in the film. They’ve got a totem that we’ll see again, and their white-painted faces and bodies are seriously off-putting.

The attention-getting details in this shot are clearly the signal flares exploding in the foreground, but way down on the ground we see a huge host of vehicles that appears to be chasing one lone front-runner. We’ll see this sort of chase throughout the trailer. That probably isn’t Max in the front vehicle, but Furiosa. Who’s she?

“Here they come again,” we hear, as a group of vehicles moves through frame. These are the same white-painted guys seen above, and it looks like they’re just starting to move out. Does this shot take place before the chase seen above? Probably.

As that “here they come again” line finishes we push in on a nice closeup of Tom Hardy as Max. But is that his voice we hear? Possibly not; other Mad Max films have been narrated by characters other than Max, who is typically a relatively quiet participant.

There’s a bit of action, and then this shot of the chief villain, Immortan Joe, played by Hugh Keays-Byrne. That’s the same actor who played the Toecutter in the original Mad Max, but his two roles have nothing to do with one another. He’s got a huge group of angry dudes with him, a couple of which are holding up the same steering wheel totem seen in the blue-hued shot above.

The line “everybody’s gone out of their mind” is accompanied by this warrior, who roars and shakes a couple spears before leaping into action. But what’s on the tip of those spears?

Yeah, those are explosives; this guy is a suicide bomber. So these fanatics are truly crazy. The guy in the facemask strapped to the front of the hot rod in the foreground — the leftmost car — is Max. So this is well into the action.

The small explosion from the suicide bomber is made to look huge by a deft cut with this much larger explosion that seems to engulf a whole tanker. That tanker, by the way, will probably remind fans of The Road Warrior, though this one appears to be filled with the correct cargo.

Oh, and what’s that vehicle on the right? Some sort of truck, with drums in the back? We’ll see that again soon.

Our second full shot of Max is barely a real shot of the guy at all. It’s a good reminder that, in these films, the “hero” is not a hero in any traditional action movie sense, and an indicator that little has changed for Fury Road.

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Are other movie studios afraid of Ant-Man? Does James Gunn think fans will recognize everyone in Guardians of the Galaxy 2? Why won’t Ridley Scott direct a comic book movie? Could Christian Bale‘s Batman and Henry Cavill‘s Superman have existed in the same universe? How can you find out some recipes for delicious DC Comics themed food? Read about all this and more in the 750th edition of Superhero Bits!

Cool new poster for Agent Carter, which is coming soon.

Warner Bros. moved the release date of Pan from July 17 to 24 leaving Ant-Man as the only film on that date.

New trailer for Spider-Man Unlimited game.

Screen Crush talked to Bobby Cannavale about his role in Marvel’s Ant-Man.

Artist Pobel did this striking poster of Batman and Robin.

James Gunn has more than 12% of a plan for Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which will show the characters “worse” than you think they are.

Yahoo Movies put up some Guardians of the Galaxy fan art, most of which you’ve seen in Superhero Bits before, but not this great one by Brendan Tobin.

The EP of The Flash talks about the big revelations in the winter finale.

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From the moment it was announced that Paul Feig would be directing an all-female Ghostbusters rebootquel, fans have been gossiping and speculating about which actresses might star. At the moment, no stars have actually been announced — but now a potential star has gone and outed herself.

Rebel Wilson, who had a supporting role in Feig’s Bridesmaids, revealed she’s already met about a role in the upcoming movie. However, she also stressed that no decisions have been made as of yet. Hit the jump for more Rebel Wilson Ghostbusters 3 chatter.

Wilson spilled the beans to Matt Lauer on The Today Show. “Look, I have had a meeting, but who knows? They have to look at the script when it’s finished.” She added, “I would even do that without the money truck. I’d do that for free. I probably shouldn’t say that live on TV.”

So it sounds like Sony, Feig, and screenwriter Katie Dippold are seeing who they can get before they nail down the script. Without knowing anything about the script, we can’t say whether she’d be a good fit. But she is very funny. And she’s worked with Feig before, so we already know she fits quite well with his brand of comedy.

Although Feig hasn’t confirmed any casting, it seems like everyone’s been making their own predictions. Basically, Ghostbusters 3 is to comedic actresses right now what Star Wars 7 was to all other actors a year ago — something everyone gets rumored for, asked about, and/or fantasy-cast in.

Melissa McCarthy is considered the odds-on favorite to star, since she stars in most of his movies recently, but she insists she hasn’t been cast yet. For his part, former Ghostbuster Bill Murray has suggested that Kristen Wiig, Linda Cardellini, and Emma Stone should shoulder the proton packs. And Ellen DeGeneres, Lena Dunham, and Bill Hader have gone on record saying they want in.

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I just listed Mad Max: Fury Road as my #1 most anticipated movie of 2015, and right on the heels of that list we’ve got a new trailer for the film. Watching this, my primary question is: How the hell does this movie even exist? This looks like pure, wonderful insanity, and like nothing we’d expect from the modern studio system. This seems to be a sequel that may barely be a sequel in modern terms; an orgy of practical effects and automotive destruction; and if some of those quick insert shots are to be believed, a dose of pure weirdness. Check out the new Mad Max Fury Road trailer below.

(And check out our frame by frame examination of the trailer, too!)

Mad Max: Fury Road opens on May 15, 2015. Trailer via Warner Bros.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is the fourth film of George Miller‘s Road Warrior/Mad Max franchise co-written and directed by Miller. The post-apocalyptic action film is set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life.

Within this world of fire and blood exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order… There’s Max (played by TOM HARDY from The Dark Knight Rises), 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 (played by CHARLIZE THERON from Prometheus), 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.”

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After finishing off Harry Potter, author J.K. Rowling started to explore some different territory, but her efforts are all leading to movie and TV projects. Her first “adult” novel, The Casual Vacancy, was quickly put into development for television as a joint effort between HBO and the BBC. Now there’s a Cormoran Strike TV series in the works, centered on the character of the same name who is a former army officer turned private investigator and based on the books published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. The first effort in the BBC series will be The Cuckoo’s Calling, based on Rowling’s debut novel as Galbraith. 

Variety reports that the crime series will begin to shoot early in 2015, and will air on BBC One. The book follows as “Strike looks into the supposed suicide of a model, who plunges to her death from a balcony in high-class Mayfair. Strike suspects it was murder.” 

There’s no casting yet, but we do know that Rowling will advise on the series.

She said on Twitter,

My friend @RGalbraith‘s first novel is going to be a TV drama on @BBCOne. He’s very excited, but expressing it with characteristic silence.

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 10, 2014

And director of BBC Television Danny Cohen,

It’s a wonderful coup for the BBC to be bringing J.K. Rowling’s latest books to the screen. With the rich character of Cormoran Strike at their heart, these dramas will be event television across the world.

We’ll pass along casting info when it becomes available; if the show does plan to shoot early in 2015, we’ll likely hear choices soon.

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you’ve never seen them under an investigation like this.

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