Tom Hardy Attached to Do Three Sequels for 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Tom Hardy, 37, has signed on for three more Mad Max films following George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road which will hit theaters beginning May 15, according to the actor himself during his exclusive interview with Esquire where he will be featured the magazine's May issue's cover story. But as he himself adds: "Everything's based on figures and how things are perceived. Inevitably it's a business."
Also sharing his thoughts on playing Max, his character in the film, Hardy said: "You always wonder, why doesn't he just top himself? [He] has humanity within him still, despite the hopelessness of his environment. He has no home and he has no hope, but he's reluctant to give in."
Regarding the production of the film, he said: "I've never been more excited and out of my comfort zone. We were in the middle of nowhere, so far away from the studio system that [Warner Bros] can't really see what's going on, and just getting things to and from the set was a nightmare. We'd lose half a vehicle in sand and have to dig it out. It was just this unit in the middle of x-million square-kilometers of desert, and then this group of lunatics in leathers, like a really weird S&M party, or a Hell's Angels convention. It was like Cirque du Soleil meets fucking Slipknot. Luckily nobody died."
Directed, produced and co-written by Miller, the post-apocalyptic action thriller Mad Max: Fury Road stars Hardy as the new Mad Max and Charlize Theron as the one-armed Imperator Furiosa, along with Nicholas Hoult as Nux and Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus. For the ladies collectively known as The Five Wives, Zoë Kravitz is Toast, Riley Keough is Capable, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is Splendid, Abbey Lee is The Dag, and Courtney Eaton is Fragile. Hugh Keays-Byrne plays the Immortan Joe. Also in the cast are Josh Helman as Slit, Jennifer Hagan as Miss Giddy, singer/songwriter/performer iOTA as Coma-Doof Warrior, John Howard as The People Eater, Richard Carter as the Bullet Farmer, supermodel Megan Gale as Valkyrie, Angus Sampson as the Organic Mechanic, and Joy Smithers, Gillian Jones, Melissa Jaffer and Melita Jurisic in still undisclosed roles.
According to the official synopsis, the film's story takes place somewhere in the furthest reaches of a post-apocalypse world, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland. Haunted by his turbulent past, Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by Furiosa, an elite Imperator, who are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows.