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Mad Max director confirms Furiosa prequel spinoff, without Charlize Theron

May 16, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Having sorted out legal issues with Warner Bros. surrounding 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller announced back in December that “there’s certainly another Mad Max [movie] coming down the pike” and now the filmmaker has confirmed the recent rumours that he’s prepping a Fury Road spinoff centred on Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa – albeit with a new actress in the lead role.

Speaking to The New York Times, Miller confirmed that the Furiosa spinoff will serve as a prequel set around 20 years prior to Fury Road, and that he is looking to cast an actress in her 20s to succeed Theron in the role, stating that: “For the longest time, I thought we could just use CG de-aging on Charlize, but I don’t think we’re nearly there yet.”

SEE ALSO: Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron open up about their on-set conflicts while shooting Mad Max: Fury Road

These comments appear to validate a report from March claim that the filmmaker was meeting and auditioning potential actresses via Skype, which is said to have included The Witch and The New Mutants star Anya Taylor-Joy.

Miller is currently working on his latest film Three Thousand Years of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, but it seems he’s eyeing Furiosa as his next project: “So, after we finish [Three Thousand Years of Longing], and hopefully everything settles down with the pandemic, we’ll see what the world allows us to do with Furiosa.”

Are you excited about the prospect of a Furiosa movie without Charlize Theron? Would you prefer to see Miller employing de-aging technology? Let us know in the comments, or on our social channels @FlickeringMyth…

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Charlize Theron, Furiosa, George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max: Furiosa

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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