Meet the leading characters in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Max Rockatansky Tom Hardy
Mad Max is the star of the show.
The Road Warrior, surviving in the dystopian wilderness was a massive hit in 1979, and looks set to be even more popular in 2015.
While Mad Max was Mel Gibson’s big break, Hardy is already a well-known and successful actor.
Tom Hardy made his big screen debut in Black Hawk Down and the Londoners biggest roles prior to Mad Max have been in Inception, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Dark Knight Rises.
In Fury Road, Max gets embroiled in a battle with Immortan Joe over the protection of a band of escaping women.
He’s got big shoes to fill as Mad Max, and it looks like he’s managed it as the critics have been very complementary of him ahead of the film’s release.
Imperator Furiosa Charlize Theron
With a name that roughly translates into Commander Fury, Charlize Theron is unlikely to be starring as a shrinking violet.
Max meets her early on in the reboot, while she is driving across the barren wasteland in her motor The War Rig.
Three-dimensional female roles are hard to find in science fiction, and Theron’s character is likely to be up there with Alien’s Ellen Ripley and, well, that’s about it really…
Furiosa teams up with Max in an unlikely and often suspicious alliance.
Warning: sparks will fly.
Immortan Joe Hugh Keays-Byrne
It’s best not to mess with Immortan Joe.
He’s the main baddie in a world of badness and ruler of the Wastelands.
He wears a mask of horses teeth and his followers The War Boys believe he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
He runs the show in the desert and if you’re going to mess with him, you’ll need a big gun. And a lot of bullets.
Nux Nicholas Hoult
“I live, I die! I live again!”
One of the many gloriously deranged characters in Fury Road is Nux.
Nux was brought up as a mechanic in Immortan Joe’s gang and has become so mentally twisted that he wants to become a machine himself.
He’s also got two deadly tumours he affectionately calls Larry and Barry.
Although Nux starts out as member of Joe’s gang, he later joins forces with Max and Furiosa.
He clearly knows a good thing when he sees it.
Slit Josh Helman
Like Nux, Slit is a crazed devotee of Immortan Joe and his kingdom.
However, Slit (Josh Helman) is far more obsessed and has not a shred of doubt about Joe and his place in the world.
Slit got his name from his obsession with knives and blades and his creative use of both…
The Five Wives Abbey Lee, Riley Keough, Zo Kravitz, Courtney Eaton, and Huntington-Whiteley
In Mad Max: Fury Road, it’s all about The Five Wives.
The whole plot revolves around them and their safety.
Immortan Joe is after them as they are fertile enough to breed the next generation of the human race.
And Joe wants that generation in his image.
The five beauties are: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Queen Angharad The Splendid; Riley Keough, Queen Capable; Zo Kravitz, Queen Toast The Knowing; Abbey Lee, The Dag Queen; and Courtney Eaton as Queen Cheedo, the Fragile.
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