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Kaufman Talks Plot Details For Fifth ‘Toxic Avenger’
Forget talk about a TOXIC AVENGER remake, it appears that Troma founder and director Lloyd Kaufman is planning a fifth entry to the cult franchise that started back in ’86 when a local mop boy falls in a vat of toxic waste transforming him into the local superhero known as Toxie. You can read all the juicy details indie.
“Unlike Superman, who never seems to age, Toxie gets older with each movie,” Kaufman tells Fangoria. “In THE TOXIC AVENGER PARTs II-IV, he has gotten married and had children. Now he’ll have to deal with his wife’s menopause, his erectile dysfunction–which is a constant erection–and his rebellious kid. We’re on to the next generation, like STAR TREK. We’ll see a little of Toxie’s twins in kindergarten, and then as teenagers. The son is rebellious, while the daughter is ultra-politically correct. We’ll show her going through puberty, which should be the most colorful monthly cycle ever put on film! We want to focus on the father/child relationship, and the generation gap. There is also a villain who wants to rename Tromaville Scheisseville…”
Kaufman plans on keeping it real when he brings Toxie back to the big (or small) screen.
“We want to be true to the citizens of Tromaville. But the series has always dealt with topical issues before other films would touch them. The original TOXIC AVENGER focused on chemical waste and dangers to the environment. Also, the important issue of head-crushing. We touched on that long before anyone else. Now everyone is getting on the head-crushing bandwagon! We want to keep things fresh and hip, because there is nothing hipper than an old Jew like myself with a bum hip.”
Knowing Troma, the film won’t be done for another two years, with it sitting on shelves for another year or two after. I’d put this one out of mind for the time being.
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement have toyed with the idea of making a sequel film to mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows for years with no forward movement, but that may soon be changing, according to Clement.
Speaking with Collider at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Clement not only reaffirmed the intention to make a We’re Wolves film, but also that he and Waititi have finally started the writing process.
“We’re writing it, actually. We started writing. For a long time, we were just talking about it. Now, we’ve started it. Very recently,” Clement told the outlet. Though, don’t expect it to be a swift process with their busy schedules.
When does Clement estimate the script will be completed? “At the pace we’re going, 2027, for sure. It helps to be in the same country, for Taika and I to be in the same country,” said the filmmaker.
Waititi has previously joked that “We’re Wolves is the film that Jemaine and I keep pretending that we’re making. Every couple of years we say, we’re making this new film called We’re Wolves, which follows the werewolves from the film.“
The 2014 film What We Do in the Shadows chronicles the lives of four vampire roommates, detailing their nightly routine as they bicker over household chores, cruise for victims, antagonize the local werewolf pack, struggle with modern technology, and more. It introduced a rival pack of werewolves led by Anton (Rhys Darby), the inspiration for the sequel.
While the long-gestating sequel set around the wolf pack is still in the early stage of development, the 2014 film has inspired two spinoff shows in the form of “Wellington Paranormal” and, well, FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows.”
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