Macon Blair wanted The Toxic Avenger to have a “cartoonish” feel.
Peter Dinklage leads the cast of The Toxic Avenger
The 50-year-old filmmaker has helmed a remake of the 1984 black comedy film and wanted his version – which stars Peter Dinklage in the lead role – to embrace silliness.
Blair told SFX magazine: “I felt it was a certain gross-out-for-the-sake-of-entertainment quality that they leaned into in the original. I wanted to carry that over.
“We wanted it to play in a cartoonish way where even if it’s gross, it’s meant to be fun. It’s never meant to be mean-spirited or cruel or gory in a way that makes you feel repulsed.
“It’s meant to be gory in a way that makes you go, ‘Hell yeah!’ and have fun with it.
Blair explained that filming gory scenes for the movie took him back to watching the original picture when he was a child.
He recalled: “It was hugely inspiring. We were just starting to figure out how to make our own movies in our backyard, and it was something of a template for that.”
The director revealed that special effects took priority over scripts and acting during the early stages of development for the flick, which is released in cinemas later this month.
Blair said: “What we were most excited about was the special effects, the blood and stuff.
“Getting to do it like this, where exploding heads are part of the movie’s texture, really felt like a return to those old days and getting through the…
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