Tag: Mad Max: Fury Road
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The Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century, from ‘Children of Men’ to ‘Her’
Editor’s note: This list was originally published in 2017, but it has been updated with 10 new entries and re-ranked.Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links.Science fiction isn’t easily defined, but in determining the top 35 sci-fi movies of the last…
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George Miller Shuts Down Rumors That ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Didn’t Have a Script
A popular theory among the much-heated lore of 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is that director George Miller, along with co-writers Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris, first approached the movie without a script. In a series of recent tweets over the past week, McCarthy shut down the rumor by calling it “made-up bollocks,” and now…
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‘Mad Max’ Prequel ‘Furiosa’ Casts Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
George Miller has tapped Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to star in “Furiosa,” the prequel movie based on Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa character from 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road.”Taylor-Joy will play title role, a younger version of Furiosa. Miller had said in a May interview with The New York Times that he’d…
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: George Miller on What Could Happen to Furiosa Post-Credits
On Friday, Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller opened up about his 2015 Mad Max sequel during a recent in-depth interview. Miller devoted some time during the hour-long chat to discussing the true hero of Fury Road, Charlize Theron’s Furiosa, and what fate he envisioned for the character after the final showdown against Immortan…
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Inside Charlize Theron’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Drive-In Screening
Charlize Theron hosted a drive-in screening of “Mad Max: Fury Road” on Friday night in Los Angeles.The festivities, which served as a fundraiser for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, took place on top of the parking structure at the Grove mall.Here, Variety goes inside the event for a look at how Theron and her…
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Star Nicholas Hoult Knew He’d Made it as an Actor When Charlize Theron Spat in His Face
Five years later “Mad Max: Fury Road” is the gift that keeps on giving. With a Furiosa spinoff prequel on the way and continued play in best-of-the-decade lists, George Miller’s Oscar-winning 2015 action epic has stayed firmly in the cultural imagination. The film was toasted once again Friday night at a special drive-in screening in…
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Charlize Theron Says ‘Italian Job’ Producers Made Her Train Six Weeks Longer Than Male Co-Stars
As part of her extraordinary range, Charlize Theron has cemented herself as one of today’s leading badass women action stars. But almost 15 years before she was outrunning a post-apocalyptic cult army in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” she was forced to prove that women can keep up with the guys to the filmmakers behind “The…
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Charlize Theron Says Not Returning For the ‘Furiosa’ Movie is “A Little Heartbreaking”; Confirms ‘Atomic Blonde 2’ Development
In the midst of promoting her upcoming Netflix movie The Old Guard, Charlize Theron opened up about potential sequels for some of her previous films. First: Theron expresses some understandable disappointment at not being involved with the Mad Max: Fury Road spin-off devoted to Furiosa, a character she made famous. Then, on the good news…
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Charlize Theron Gives an ‘Atomic Blonde 2’ Update and Gets Candid About That ‘Furiosa’ Prequel
Charlize Theron rules, full stop. She’s one of our best actors working today, blessed with the range that gives us prickly, low-status characters like her leading role in Tully, high-status-but-still-struggling characters like her leading role in Long Shot, and utter slices of action iconography like her leading role in Mad Max: Fury Road. This means…
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‘The Old Guard’ Trailer: Charlize Theron Leads A Team Of Renegades Under Threat For Director Gina Prince-Bythewood
It’s pretty much official, Charlize Theron is a bonafide action star and the go-to queen of action movies. Following roles in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Atomic Blonde,” its rumored sequel, and her entry into the “Fast & Furious” franchise, the actress has carved out an additional niche for herself, beyond her dramatic roles, as today’s…