As we learned back in March, Miller is currently casting the prequel with the intent of shooting in 2021. New Mutants star Anya Taylor-Joy is rumored to be a frontrunner for the role of a younger Furiosa.
Miller has been planning a Furiosa prequel for several years at this point, first hinting at the idea mere months after the release of Fury Road.
"She's a pretty compelling character so it'd be great to tell her story," Miller told Entertainment Weekly in 2016. "Her backstory is pretty interesting, we only allude to it in this movie. This movie is on the run, people don't have much time for recreational talk. You have a sense of her having gone through stuff, that's what the movie is trying to do. You know, you're trying to put a lot of iceberg under the tip, I like saying."The good news is that Theron continues to appear in other big-budget action movies. She's next appearing in Netflix's comic book adaptation The Old Guard, which debuts on the streamer on Friday, July 10. You can check out IGN's advance review of The Old Guard for more on the new movie. Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.