Mad Max Chinese Knockoff Gets A Trailer

You can all stop holding your breath: There’s a trailer for Mad Shelia: Virgin Road.

“But wait!” You say. “That sounds like a bad, Chinese knock-off of Mad Max: Fury Road.

Well, it is!

…Maybe not bad. We have no real way of knowing. But taking advantage of China’s lax copyright laws and the international box office’s hunger for bombastic action movies, a fad of knockoffs known as “wang da” films are being made on the cheap and released to the internet.

The film is the first in a series, with the next one — Mad Shelia: Revenge of the Road — even more like Mad Max: Fury Road. (Even though this one sounds like a Fury Road riff, it’s actually establishing the world and characters, so it’s really more like a take on the original Mad Max). The films star Fuo Xiao as a bounty hunter who frees a group of women from desert warlords.

Mad Shelia is apparently available now. Revenge of the Road is expected along in 2017.

h/t FirstShowing.net