New Mad Max will focus on Charlize Theron’s Furiosa

After years of speculation, George Miller will return to the Mad Max world for the spin-off film about Charlize Theron’s Furiosa.

After years of speculation, there is finally confirmation that George Miller will return to the world of Mad Max to create a spin-off about Charlize Theron’s character Furiosa, according to Deadline.

While there aren’t a lot of details about the spin-off just yet, we know that viewers will be given a look into the backstory of Furiosa, the rogue general.

Anya Taylor-Joy, who is best known for her roles in The Witch and Emma, will take on Theron’s role.

Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are also set to be cast in unidentified roles.

The new movie will focus on Charlize's character Furiosa

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There is no word on whether or not Tom Hardy will return as the role of Mad Max himself.

No official filming location has been announced just yet, but confirmation that the movie is coming is enough information to keep fans happy at the moment.

Mad Max: Fury Road premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 and grossed $374 million ($A579 million) at the global box office, and was nominated for 10 Oscars in 2016, picking up six statuettes for categories including production design, editing and costume design.

Meanwhile, it was revealed earlier this year that there were high tensions between Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy while they were filming the first movie.

Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy had a feud on set

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In an “oral history” published by the New York Times in May, many of the actors, including Theron and Hardy, candidly reflected on the difficulties they encountered while making the 2015 film.

“There was a lot of tension, and a lot of different personalities and clashes at times,” Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who played The Splendid Angharad in the film, told the outlet. “It was definitely interesting to sit in a truck for four months with Tom and Charlize, who have completely different approaches to their craft.”

Theron admitted she was not understanding of Hardy and the pressures he might have felt taking over the iconic role.

“In retrospect, I didn’t have enough empathy to really, truly understand what he must have felt like to step into Mel Gibson’s shoes. That is frightening!” she said.

The Academy Award-winning actress continued, “And I think because of my own fear, we were putting up walls to protect ourselves instead of saying to each other, ‘This is scary for you, and it’s scary for me, too. Let’s be nice to each other.’ In a weird way, we were functioning like our characters: Everything was about survival.”

Hardy shared Theron’s assessment.

There’s no word on whether or not Tom Hardy will return

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“I think in hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways,” the English-born actor said. “The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times.

“What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced, partner in me. That’s something that can’t be faked. I’d like to think that now that I’m older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion.”

And, according to others on set, Theron wasn’t the only person that Hardy battled.

Zoë Kravitz, who portrayed Toast the Knowing, recalled that, “Tom really had moments of frustration, of anger. Charlize did, too, but I feel like he’s the one who really took it out on George (Miller) the most, and that was a bummer to see.”

Kravitz added, “But you know, in some ways, you also can’t blame him because a lot was being asked of these actors and there were a lot of unanswered questions.”

Theron also admitted to having “complicated feelings” about her physically-demanding role in the movie because of trauma that her body remembers from making it. Meanwhile, Hardy noted the experience left him “irrevocably changed”.