There’s no better way to wrap up the year than with an explosive double feature. Luckily, Mad Max: Fury Road and its prequel story, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, have both landed on Netflix, so you can close out 2024 (or start 2025 if you’re so inclined) with an action-packed journey through the dystopian desert.
In 2015’s Oscar-winning Fury Road, Charlize Theron stars as Imperator Furiosa alongside Tom Hardy as Max Rochatansky. The pair form an alliance and lead five women fleeing the despotic rule of Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) across a barren wasteland. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, meanwhile, delves into the origin story of the title character. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy in the eponymous role, the 2024 film tells the tale of a brewing war between the warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) and Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme.) Young Furiosa (Alyla Browne) — who has been captured and taken from her home — must put together a plan to find her way back.
Here’s what you need to know about the postapocalyptic action films, now streaming on Netflix in the US.
Who’s in the cast of Mad Max: Fury Road?
Alongside Theron (Atomic Blonde, The Old Guard), Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises, Inception), and Keays-Byrne (Moby Dick, 1979’s Mad Max) Fury Road stars the following actors:
- Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy, Warm Bodies) as Nux
- Zoë Kravitz (Big Little Lies, The Batman) as Toast the Knowing
- Josh Helman (Jack Reacher, X-Men: Apocalypse) as Slit
- Nathan Jones (Mortal Kombat, Troy) as Rictus Erectus
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (About Face) as The Splendid Angharad
- Riley Keough (American Honey, Daisy Jones & the Six) as Capable
- Abbey Lee (Old, Lovecraft Country) as The Dag
- Courtney Eaton (Yellowjackets) as Cheedo the Fragile
- John Howard (SeaChange) as The People Eater
- Richard Carter (The Great Gatsby) as The Bullet Farmer
- Angus Sampson (The Lincoln Lawyer, Fargo) as The Organic Mechanic
- Megan Gale (Three Thousand Years of Longing) as The Valkyrie
- Melissa Jaffer (Three Thousand Years of Longing) as Keeper of the Seeds
And who’s in the cast of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga?
Furiosa stars Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit, Peaky Blinders), and Hemsworth (The Avengers, Snow White and the Huntsman) on opposing sides of this war, as well as the following cast:
- Tom Burke (The Lazarus Project, The Crown) as Praetorian Jack
- Alyla Browne (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart) as young Furiosa
- Lachy Hulme (The Matrix Revolutions) as Immortan Joe
- Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus
- Josh Helman as Scrotus
- John Howard as The People Eater
- Angus Sampson as The Organic Mechanic
- Charlee Fraser (Anyone But You) as Mary Jabassa
- David Field (Shantaram) as Toe Jam
- Rahel Romahn (Shantaram) as Vulture
- David Collins (The Fall Guy) as Smeg
- Goran D. Kleut (Alien: Covenant) as The Octoboss
- Matuse (The Fall Guy) as Fang
When can I stream Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Mad Max: Fury Road on Netflix?
You can stream both Mad Max and Furiosa on Netflix in the US right now.