Director Macon Blair discusses making a new Toxic Avenger movie and explains why he insisted that his Toxie be played by an actor in a suit.
The Big Picture 'Tis the season for genre movie recommendations to watch on Halloween, but we’ll also use it as an opportunity to tease a must-watch creature feature you’re likely to get in 2024, Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma classic, The Toxic Avenger.
The Toxic Avenger doesn’t have a release date just yet, but after a positive reception at Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, and Sitges, hopes are high we’ll get an update from Legendary soon.MACON BLAIR: Oh man, that's what we were hoping for! We mentioned this after the show last night, but when we were talking about where we would love to premiere this movie, everybody's first and only answer was Fantastic Fest.
BLAIR: I love that question. When I was a young person I saw the movie at a very impressionable age and it got stuck in my head and kind of formed what I liked about movies in some ways. As I got older, I started watching other things, and so it's not like I carried around this idea that I needed to remake The Toxic Avenger.
I am about to jump into how damn good Peter Dinklage is in that role, but first, just to compare ‘84 Troma to what you do now more, I want to lean into the visual style and the filmmaking techniques that you use.
I don't know how much you can speak to this because their team is a little more hands-on with how all of this works, but what kind of conversations did you have in terms of making sure that the design, and Peter in it, was able to be so expressive? Because it looks like a very heavy prosthetic to me …But when I'm watching the film, I can see things as small as eyebrow movements, and that makes all the difference in a performance like that.
To highlight even more of your incredible ensemble here, of all the characters in the movie, which was the easiest to cast where the perfect person magically came to you, but then I want the exact opposite, the role that took the most leg work to find the perfect fit for? BLAIR: Leg work makes it sound like it was an impossible equation to solve, and it wasn't, but the part that we really looked at a lot of different people for was J.J., who is a new character. She's sort of like a rogue investigator that's gathering information. I'm sort of giving you some context if people haven't seen it, but she's gathering information to take down this evil corporation. She kind of starts the movie as a hero and kind of sets this example to Toxie.
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