Watch Mad Max Cause Destruction in Fury Road Trailer

Three decades after Thunderdome, the saga of Mad Max Rockatansky will continue withMad Max: Fury Road, whichjust released a mind-boggling new trailer stuffed with explosions and catastrophic high-speed calamity.

Mad Max: Fury Road finds Tom Hardy portraying the titular road warrior made famous by Mel Gibson who joins up with a caravan led by Charlize Therons character, Imperator Furiosa, trying to cross the desert. Among the other travelers are a handful of women sprung from the clutches of the nefarious Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played Toecutter in the original Mad Max), a man hellbent on retrieving his property.

The trailer offers an alluring look at the wild chase that ensues. The modified trucks and cars are suitably outrageous one, tricked out with a bevy of amps and speakers, is helmed by a maniac wielding a double-neck guitar/flame thrower and the mayhem they bring is gloriously hyper-stylized, especially when set against a barren desert backdrop.

Mad Max: Fury Road was directed and co-writtenby franchise mastermind George Miller (also, oddly enough, responsible for family-friendly films like Happy FeetandBabe), and marks his first film in the series since 1985sMad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Miller initiallyteasedFury Road during a panel at Comic-Con last summer, while the films first eye-poppingtrailerarrived in December.

I love chase movies; I think theyre the purest form of cinema, Miller told the Comic-Con audience, per the Sydney Morning Herald. Thats where the film language started. I wanted to make one long, extended chase, and see what we could pick up about the characters along the way.

Mad Max: Fury Road is scheduled to openon May 15th.