Mad Max: Fury Road, expect a relatively dialogue-free non-stop roller-coaster-ride chase sequence through the desert with Tom Hardy’s Mad Max and Charlize Theron’s Furiosa

Warner Bros.' Mad Max: Fury Road , the long-anticipated fourth film in George Miller's Mad Max franchise is scheduled to open in theaters on May 15. Directed, produced and co-written by Miller, the post-apocalyptic action thriller stars Tom Hardy as the new Mad Max and Charlize Theron as the one-armed Imperator Furiosa.

According to the official synopsis, the 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 (Hugh Keays-Byrne), 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.

Mad Max: Fury Road also stars Nicholas Hoult as Nux and Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus. For the ladies collectively known as The Wives, Zoë Kravitz is Toast, Riley Keough is Capable, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is Splendid, Abbey Lee is The Dag, and Courtney Eaton is Fragile. 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 .

Back at last year's San Diego Comic-Con, Miller told reporters: "I was able to make the movie I wanted to make. WB allows the filmmakers their process. I was determined not to do conventional thing and do screenplay. So we boarded the whole thing like a comic book, with 3,500 panels - there aren't many words, people only speak when they have to, and I wanted to tell the story in pictures." He said he wanted the film to be an almost continuous chase, with relatively little dialogue, and to have the visuals come first. He also famously paraphrased Hitchcock, saying: "I want to make movies where they don't have to read the subtitles in Japan."