Chris, Anya to star in 'Mad Max Prequel'

Actors Chris Hemsworth, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will star in the Mad Max prequel, Furiosa. The prequel is founded on Charlize Theron's character Imperator Furiosa from the 2015 film, 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. Taylor-Joy, 24, will play the title role in the prequel, as a younger version of the character. In an interview in-may, director George Miller said that he was browsing for an actor in her twenties to play the role. 

He said at the time he had considered using de-aging technology to permit Theron, now 44 years old, to keep playing the part in the prequel. However, itwas subsequently decided to rope in Taylor-Joy for the role. In preparing the Fury Road script, Miller and co-writer Nick Lathouris had developed origin stories for each and every character, but not much was revealed about Furiosa's past. In the film, she is a war captain beneath the cruel leader Immortan Joe but turns against him so that you can free Joe's concubines.