Elijah Wood inThe Toxic Avenger(2023).Photo:Legendary Pictures
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Elijah Wood’s newest role has him as you’ve never seen him before.
The 42-year-old actor stars as Fritz Garbinger in Macon Blair’s upcoming remake of the 1984 superhero cult classicThe Toxic Avenger,whichEntertainment Weeklyshared a sneak peek of on Wednesday.
The photo of Wood shows him with dark pieces of hair surrounding a half-balding head, dark eye makeup and blackened teeth.
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Peter Dinklage inThe Toxic Avenger(2023).Legendary Pictures
The originalToxic Avengerstarred Mark Torgl as Melvin, a New Jersey–based janitor who, after being pushed into a vat of toxic waste, becomes disfigured and fights against bad guys as a superhero named Toxie.
Peter Dinklageis leading the new film as Winston Gooze/The Toxic Avenger. And according to Blair, 48, “Similar to the original Toxic Avenger, he’s singularly unqualified to be a hero.”
“He’s not especially brave, he’s not especially crafty, but he has his heart in the right place, and he starts taking it to the limit when he’s pushed into a corner,” the filmmaker toldEW.
Kevin Bacon inThe Toxic Avenger(2023).Legendary Pictures
“There is a terrible industrial accident that renders him a mutant and an outcast, but also gives him some super strength and super abilities that sets him on a path of being an unlikely vigilante in this downward-spiraling society,” Blair added.
Aside from Wood and Dinklage, 54, the film also starsJacob Tremblay,Taylour Paige, Julia Davis, Jonny Coyne andKevin Bacon.
Bacon, 65, plays Fritz’s brother Bob Garbinger, who is “kind of a henchman at this corrupt company” and seen as a “golden god,” as opposed to Wood’s “runt of the family” character.
As Blair toldEW, Bob is in “the mold of Lex Luthor, where they have all this money and resources at their disposal, but he’s just kind of a disaster.”
The Toxic Avengermakes its world premiere on Thursday at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.
source: people.com
