Charlize Theron has sent a message loud and clear to Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller that she’s ready to return to his diesel-fueled post-apocalyptic world and again play Imperator Furiosa, the seemingly fearless rig-driving heroine she created in the smash hit 2015 film.
Hardy for his part has said he also is ready to go for another Mad Max when/if Miller puts out the call.
Mad Max: Fury Road marked Miller’s return to the world he created through his original trilogy of films starring Mel Gibson, beginning with the low-budget Australian action movie Mad Max in 1979, continuing through the post-apocalyptic Western Road Warrior in 1981 and culminating in the epic action-fantasy Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome in 1985.
Fury Road starred Theron alongside Tom Hardy as a re-imagined Max, who along with Furiosa battled across the desert wastelands to protect a group of pregnant women whom Furiosa had kidnapped from their cruel master, the water-hoarding maniac Immortan Joe.