Mad Max: Fury Road, New Stills from the Set Featured in Total Film's Latest Issue

Warner Bros.' Mad Max: Fury Road, the long-anticipated fourth film in George Miller's Mad Max franchise is openning in theaters on May 15. Calling it "the most spectacular film of the year," Total Film magazine is heralding the event by featuring in its May edition, now available at all leading newsstands, some never-before-seen still photos from the movie, including a closer look at Furiosa's (Charlize Theron) mechanical arm, Mad Max (Tom Hardy) fighting with someone while hanging from what appears to be the barrel of a gun, and "The Five Wives" played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough, Courtney Eaton and Abbey Lee.

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.

On her character Furiosa, Theron told Toatl Film [via GamesRadar]: "George [Miller, director] really wanted a woman to stand alongside Max, and that was all I knew, and I just thought, 'Whoa, for a woman to stand next to him in that world, that would be pretty fucking cool.' He was really kind of exploring women in this world at every age and there was something, selfishly, that I thought was almost better than Max. It's very hard for a woman to feel that way when she steps into a world like that."

Mad Max: Fury Road also stars 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. 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.