Entertainment Weekly has revealed unique footage the place we will now see what the up to date look of Toxie might be.
Followers have been ready a very long time to see author/director Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma cult basic The Poisonous Avenger (watch it HERE), which wrapped filming method again in 2021 and unveiled a teaser trailer close to the top of 2023, across the time it had its world premiere screening. The movie would go right into a little bit of purgatory, however the Poisonous Avenger remake will lastly be reaching theatres on August 29, kicking off Labor Day weekend! Now, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, you will get a superb have a look at Toxie and his up to date look.
Blair’s model of The Poisonous Avenger stars Peter Dinklage as Winston Gooze, a stereotypical weakling who works as a janitor at Garb-X well being membership and is recognized with a terminal sickness that may solely be cured by an costly therapy that his grasping, energy hungry employer refuses to pay for. After deciding to take issues into his personal fingers and rob his firm, Winston falls right into a pit of poisonous waste and is reworked right into a deformed monster that units out to do good and get again in any respect the individuals who have wronged him.
Dinklage is joined within the solid by Kevin Bacon as villainous company overlord Bob Garbinger; Elijah Wooden as Bob’s brother Fritz Garbinger, who’s described as “sort of Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Danny DeVito Penguin mixed together”; a gaggle of lunatics / musicians known as the Killer Nutz, who’re “a rock and roll group where their presentation is theatrical evil, like KISS or Alice Cooper, but their moonlight gig is professional assassins”; Taylour Paige as investigative reporter / vigilante detective JJ Doherty; Jacob Tremblay as Winston’s stepson Wade; Jonny Coyne as a “shadowy criminal figure”; Sarah Niles as a “corrupt city official”; Julia Davis as an unspecified character; and Blair as a man named Dennis.
The Poisonous Avenger remake was filmed in Bulgaria. Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz produced with Legendary Entertainment. The movie has obtained an R ranking for “sturdy violence and gore, language all through, sexual references and temporary graphic nudity“ – and the gore features a second that has been known as “the butt guts scene“.
