Nicholas Hoult Cast In Mad Max 4

Published on January 28, 2010 by Martyn Conterio · View Comments

According to Heat Vision Blog, the About A Boy/Skins/A Single Man star has signed up for George Miller’s exciting as hell fourth installment of the Mad Max series: Fury Road . The director has already re-shaped the role of Max into British thesp Tom Hardy and joining him is Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz, Teresa Palmer and Adelaide Clemens. Hoult will play a character named Nux. There is no futher information about his character or the film.

However, it has been known the film is set a little while after the events of Beyond Thunderdome, when Max fought off the crazy hordes of Bartertown to help the kids fly off to a nuked Sydney, leaving him where he started – in the desert, alone. The project has been planned for years and was set to start rolling in Namibia at one point.

The 1979 original was a shot in the arm for Australian cinema has it announced a commercial sensibility matched with artistic depth. It was a global hit, too. The sequel, The Road Warrior, is one of the greatest films ever made. A movie that is loud, brash, crazy but never stupid. It features one of the most beautifully ironic endings ever put on the screen. The third one starred Tina Turner.

Filming begins this summer.