Interview With "The Toxic Avenger" Filmmaker Macon Blair

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

"The Toxic Avenger" is a 2023 American superhero black comedy splatter film written and directed by Macon Blair. It is the fifth installment, a reboot of the "The Toxic Avenger" film series, and a remake of the 1984 film. The film stars Peter Dinklage as the title character, alongside Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Julia Davis, Jonny Coyne, Elijah Wood, and Kevin Bacon. It premiered as the opening film of Fantastic Fest on September 21, 2023, and received positive reviews for its tone, makeup, homages to the original, and Peter Dinklage's performance. Blair was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will be released in theaters on August 28th from Cineverse and Iconic Events Releasing. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director and writer for the toxic adventure, Dayton Blair.
0:08.2	Armed political extremists have taken hostages downtown.
0:12.8	Somebody do something!
0:17.0	Wait!
0:18.7	Stop!
0:20.1	We'll get to all of that.
0:21.6	Just relax.
0:22.6	Okay?
0:23.6	We'd lost Shelley a year ago.
0:26.6	These days, it's just me and the kid.
0:30.6	It looks great.
0:31.6	Not just scrape off the black part.
0:33.6	That hurts pretty good.
0:35.6	Now give him back. I don't want to hurt him.
0:39.3	Why didn't she do anything?
0:42.3	Sometimes it's better to do nothing.
0:45.3	It's going good.
0:47.3	You're saying that this corporation
0:51.3	would knowingly poison its own customers just to boost their own profit
0:58.8	margins summoning the nuts okay summoning the nuts I didn't want any of this.
1:11.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast, where I'm being joined right now by the director and writer for the film The Toxic Avenger, Megan Blair.
1:20.3	Hello, good see you.
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