Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015
action film directed and produced by
George Miller, and written by Miller,
Brendan McCarthy and
Nico Lathouris. The fourth in the
Mad Max franchise, it is an Australian and American venture produced by
Kennedy Miller Mitchell,
RatPac-Dune Entertainment and
Village Roadshow Pictures. It is set in a future desert wasteland where gasoline and water are scarce commodities. It follows
Max Rockatansky (
Tom Hardy), who joins forces with
Imperator Furiosa (
Charlize Theron) to flee from cult leader Immortan Joe (
Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his army in an armoured tanker truck, which leads to a lengthy road battle. The film also features
Nicholas Hoult,
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley,
Riley Keough,
Zoë Kravitz,
Abbey Lee, and
Courtney Eaton.