While promoting her new action movie, Atomic Blonde (based on Anthony Johnston and Sam Hart's graphic novel The Coldest City), Charlize Theron spoke to Variety about her enthusiasm for a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road that focuses on Furiosa. Theron also gives some insight into the scripting process for the proposed return to the Imperator:
“I’d love to,” Theron tells Variety. “There were three scripts. They were written as back stories to Max’s character and to Furiosa’s character. But at the end of the day, this thing lives and breathes with [director] George [Miller]. I think Warner Bros. knows that. We are all waiting for him to show us the way.”
The star of the upcoming action-spy-thriller further detailed earlier concepts for her character and others from the fourth entry into the Mad Max series.
“Originally, [George] liked this idea that even though they were in the desert, something happened and people actually turned albino,” Theron says. “They became these white ghosts. I had this white hair, kind of like Abbey Lee [Kershaw’s] character. It was very much like that: blonde, bleached, very pale skin, no eyebrows. We played around with African war paint. It would have been a completely different film.”
Theron also tells Variety that the critical and box-office success of Fury Road led to the development of Atomic Blonde, a film she hopes becomes its own franchise.
Atomic Blonde opens in the U.S. on July 28th.
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