Peter Dinklage Offers Update on THE TOXIC AVENGER Reboot and Hopes It Has "Its Day in the Toxic Sun"
The Toxic Avenger reboot made its festival premiere at Fantastic Fest last year and the film was met with big praise and positive reviews. It currently has a 92% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is cool!
But, the film has yet to be released. It was previously reported that director Macon Blair's film is currently considered to be "unreleasable."
A producer of the movie said that The Toxic Avenger's commercial prospects are too "out there" for any sort of traditional theatrical release. This would explain why the movie still has no confirmed distributor.
Peter Dinklage stars in the film as Toxie and he recently offered a disappointing update on the film saying: "No, I'm not a producer on it. I don't know.
“I do want it to get out there into the world because it was a really big hit at Fantastic Fest in Austin, and Macon Blair, the writer/director who is also in The Thicket ... He's incredible. He's one of my favorite people and favorite artists. So hopefully it will have its day in the toxic sun."
It was previously reported: "Filmmaker and producer Adam Masnyk recently went on Twitter/X and confirmed that the film has been deemed 'not safe enough to market,' which he claims is why no one has stepped up to distribute it. When all is said and done, it could maybe even turn out to be 'lost media.'"
When previously teasing the violence in the movie, the director said it would include “Itchy & Scratchy-type violence,” which is obviously in reference to The Simpsons’ heightened cat-vs-mouse comedy sketches.
He explained: “We’ve got a guy that gets his head stuffed in a car engine and it kind of grinds his head up. That was a gag I was fond of.”
The over-the-top violence in this film has been teased since it was first announced and it will have an exuberant amount of blood and gore.
While making the film, the filmmaker explained he thought that the studio wouldn’t go along with his ideas: “I kept expecting Legendary to say, ‘This is not what we want,’ but they kept agreeing to the things I pitched.”
Blair adds that when making the movie, he “embraced the silliness and trashiness, while wanting it to be an enjoyable, crowd-pleasing, rock’n’roll fun time.”
The movie is described as a “brand new reimagining of Lloyd Kaufman’s classic The Toxic Avenger,” and it’s explained that “While the original film (which premiered in 1984 – almost 40 years ago!) followed the fate of Melvin Ferd Junko III (Mitch Cohen), who goes from zero to toxic hero in a case of bullying gone awry, Macon Blair’s contemporary take follows a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength all his own.”
Dinklage stars as “downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze who, after falling into a vat of toxic waste, becomes none other than The Toxic Avenger. This timely reimagining is up to its eyeballs in environmental themes as Winston goes up against the evil forces of greed and corruption to save his son, his friends, and his community.”
The synopsis also notes, “Even as this story exists on its own terms, the spirit undoubtedly remains connected to the original. Troma fans old and new will be pleased to know that the film has been rated “R” for violence and gore – as per Troma tradition.”
The movie also stars Elijah Wood, Julia Davis, Taylour Paige, Kevin Bacon, and Jacob Tremblay.
Source: ComicBook