New images from The Toxic Avenger show that actor Elijah Wood is no longer the friendly hobbit. In this remake of a cult film from the ’80s, he even looks like he has orc blood in him.
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The inspiration for this character comes more from the Rocky Horror Picture Show and the penguin version Dany DeVito in Batman Returns (1992), revealed director Macon Blair. “The idea was to make people forget that it’s Elijah that we know from The Lord of the Rings or something else,” he explained to Entertainment Weekly, specifying that the character’s appearance was determined through conversations with the actor and was developed by the film’s artistic team.
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Peter Dinklage in The Toxic Avenger.
“The Toxic Avenger” is a remake of a low-budget 1984 film that tells the story of how a bullied young janitor becomes an oversized, disfigured beast with superhero muscles after he falls into a barrel of radioactive waste… This Work Becomes a Cult Classic has been adapted into a franchise that includes four films, an animated series and a comic series published by Marvel.
In the new version, it’s Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister from Games Of Thrones) who plays the poisonous avenger. “As in the original work [le personnage] is particularly unsuitable to become a hero, the director specifies. He’s not particularly brave, he doesn’t have any special talent. » Except that his heart is “in the right place.”
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Kevin Bacon in The Toxic Avenger
In addition to Elijah Wood and Peter Dinklage, this new version of “The Toxic Avenger” features the participation of another star: Kevin Bacon, who plays an industrial villain that Macon Blair describes as in the guise of Lex Luthor, the villain in Superman. “The Toxic Avenger” will have its world premiere at the Austin Fantastic Fest, which begins Thursday in Austin, Texas.