Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will star in Furiosa, a standalone action adventure feature that acts as an origin story for the powerful character first embodied by Charlize Theron in 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'
00:00As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken.
00:06It was hard to know who was more crazy.
00:10Get ready to return to the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max Fury Road.
00:15Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are set to star in Furiosa,
00:20which will act as the origin story for the powerful character first embodied by Charlize Theron in the Oscar-winning 2015 movie.
00:28Want to get through this?
00:30Let's go!
00:30Although the new movie is not greenlit, filmmaker George Miller is set to direct, co-write, and produce the Warner Brothers project.
00:37Taylor-Joy will play Theron's character Furiosa in the action-adventure film that's described as her genesis.
00:42She went under the wheels.
00:45We keep moving.
00:46No!
00:47We keep moving!
00:48He doesn't know what he's talking about!
00:51Whatever happens, we're going to the green place.
00:53This is the green place.
00:54It is unclear who Hemsworth and Abdul-Mateen II will play.
00:57Also unclear is the timetable for the project, which is described as being in advanced development.
01:03Hemsworth is due to begin shooting Thor Love and Thunder in January.
01:06As for Abdul-Mateen II, he's coming off his Emmy-winning turn in HBO's Watchmen.
01:10And Taylor-Joy can next be seen starring as a chess prodigy named Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit on Netflix.
01:16She recently told The Hollywood Reporter what drew her to that role.
01:19How much I connected with this woman, how much I wanted to tell her story, and something that I think is really important is I did think I could tell it right.
01:27Like, sometimes I'll read about someone or I'll get a script and I'll think, gosh, this person's incredible, but I'm just not supposed to tell this story.
01:36And with Beth, it was just, like, screaming, like, go, do it.
01:40Like, this is for you.
01:42You belong to each other.
01:43For more on this story, head to THR.com.
01:45For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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