MUMBAI: Nicholas Hoult is to feature in Fury Road, the new Mad Max film by series writer-director George Miller.

Zoe Kravitz, Teresa Palmer and Adelaide Clemens are also in negotiations to join the cast of the film.

The film, set a short while after the story detailed in 1985‘s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which keeps Mad Max, the character originally played by Mel Gibson, relatively young.

Details are being kept quiet, but it is known that Hoult‘s character is named Nux. Kravitz, whose character‘s name is Five Wives, Palmer and Clemens are in a convoy being chased by bad guys.

Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy are to star in the film, the shooting of which is expected to be held in Australia this summer.

Hoult made his feature debut in About a Boy and starred in the British series Skins. His work in A Single Man earned him a BAFTA nomination. The actor will appear in Warners‘ remake of Clash of the Titans.