Here’s your first look at Elijah playing a villain named Fritz Garbinger with blackened teeth, panda eyes, and long tendrils of hair sprouting from his mostly bald pate in the Toxic Avenger.

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“The look came about by discussions I had with our designers and with Elijah himself,” he continues. “I wanted it to feel like a Peter Sellers type of performance where he just goes invisible. The idea is that you forget that it’s the Elijah that you know from Lord of the Rings or anything else.”
The movie will receive its world premiere as the opening night film at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, which runs Sept. 21-28.