https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iO-zjhHvg4
Mad Sheila is a surprisingly awesome looking Chinese Mad Max rip off that looks closer to the original films than Fury Road. Via the Telegraph:
George Miller may as well call off production on his sequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, as China seems to have got him beat. This week saw the debut of a trailer for Mad Shelia, an unofficial quasi-remake that bears an uncanny resemblance to the 2015 masterpiece.
Only instead of Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron scrapping weirdos on a war rig, there’s a lady in a revealing outfit called Shelia… Scrapping weirdos on a war rig.
Mad Shelia is in fact the first in a series of films, two of which have already been shot: Mad Shelia: Virgin Road, currently streaming on Chinese VOD service TenCent Video, will be followed by Mad Shelia: Revenge of the Road in 2017.
Both follow the renegade adventures of Xi Liya, a bounty hunter who wanders the desert disguised as a man. When she encounters a coterie of virgins about to be sold to steampunk-looking warlords, she must fight to rescue them. Numerous bits of scenery-chewing and Flash-animation explosions appear to ensue.
Such an overt, unendorsed knock-off might seem shocking, but dodgy near-remakes of American hits have become a cottage industry in China for the past decade. Recent entries in this strange canon include the Zootopia copycat Crazy Toy City, the actioner The Courier and the Furious, and a Fifty Shades of Grey riff called Fifty Shades of Black.