The two also wrote the 1985 book in his voice, Max Headroom's Guide to Life. They created dialogue for Max's appearances in the TV movie and TV shows, which the actor added to through improvisation. At first sight he'll ask about that blackhead on your nose." Producer Peter Wagg had already hired writers David Hansen and Paul Owen to construct Max Headroom's "whole persona", which Morton described as the "very sterile, arrogant, Western personification of the middle-class, male TV host".
Max always assumes a decade long friendship on the first meeting. The actor took inspiration from The Mary Tyler Moore Show 's Ted Baxter, saying in a 1987 interview, "I particularly wanted to get that phony bonhomie of Baxter .
For his role hosting a music video programme, Max Headroom was conceived of by creator Rocky Morton as "the most boring thing that I could think of to do.a talking head: a middle-class white male in a suit, talking to them in a really boring way about music videos", also deciding that he should be computer-generated.Ĭanadian-American actor Matt Frewer was chosen based on his "unbelievably well-defined features" that Jankel noticed in a casting polaroid, and from his comedic improvisation skills that he demonstrated in a ten-minute audition.
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