Though Theron won’t be returning, some crucial members of the “Fury Road” team have signed on. Everyone is on the verge of solving it, particular Japanese video-game designers, but there’s still a pretty wide valley, I believe.” “Despite the valiant attempts on ‘The Irishman,’ I think there’s still an uncanny valley. “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,” Miller said. over unpaid earnings related to “Fury Road.” But now that Miller has been given the go-ahead to proceed, he’s begun auditions for the lead role, and he admitted that whoever is cast as Furiosa will have significant shoes to fill. I’ve always wondered if that movie’s going to get made.”įor years, it seemed that it might not, since Miller was locked in a legal battle with Warner Bros. “I got to read it when I was cast,” said Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who played Splendid, one of the “Fury Road” wives. Still, they found Furiosa’s story so compelling that they decided to write a second screenplay even before a frame of “Fury Road” had been shot. “It was purely a way of helping Charlize and explaining it to ourselves,” Miller said. Miller sought to answer questions about what the character’s life was like in the idyllic “Green Place,” why she was plucked from the group of woman warriors known as the Vuvalini, and how she became the hardened warrior we meet by the time “Fury Road” begins. During the decade and a half it took to bring “Fury Road” to the screen, Miller and his co-writer, Nick Lathouris, came up with extensive back stories for every character in the film, from the antagonist Immortan Joe to the comparatively minor Doof Warrior, who wields a flame-spewing guitar.īut it was Furiosa who received the bulk of their attention.