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The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Remake Has Officially Wrapped Filming

Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing a remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger for Legendary Entertainment. Today, we’ve learned via a Tweet from Blair (below), who is not only directing but also wrote the script for the remake, that filming has now officially wrapped. In the 1984 original, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” Deadline has described the film as, “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in the vein of Deadpool. When a struggling everyman is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 14, 2021
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Kevin Bacon Starring In The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Reboot

A few days ago we reported that Elijah Wood had supposedly joined the cast of the new Toxic Avenger movie, today we have more casting news. Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Footloose, You Should Have Left) has also joined the cast of the remake and will play the role of the movie’s main villain, THR reports. Bacon will star alongside Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), and Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the movie written and directed by Macon Blair, who also wrote and directed I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore. In the 1984 original from Troma, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” The new version is being described as “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2021
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Peter Dinklage In Talks To Star In ‘The Toxic Avenger Reboot’

Troma is going mainstream with a reboot of the horror-comedy The Toxic Avenger which is being produced by Legendary Pictures, the company that brought you Jurassic Park, Crimson Peak, and many other blockbusters. According to Deadline, “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage is currently in talks to star in the film that will be directed by Macon Blair writer and director of Netflix’s I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore. There is no word yet what role Dinklage will play. The Toxic Avenger premiered in 1984 as a successful midnight movie in New York, becoming a cult classic and going on to spawn three sequels, a cartoon series, a musical, and a Marvel comic. In the movie, Toxic Avenger was created when a meek, bullied mop boy named Melvin falls into toxic waste. After mutating he sets out to stop evildoers. Loyd Kaufman, creator of Toxic Avenger and co-creator of Troma Studios will be producing along with his

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 1, 2020
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Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage Reunite For Horror Movie ‘Good Bad & Undead’

“Game of Thrones” alum Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage are reuniting for Legendary’s action-horror movie Good Bad & Undead, directed by Max Barbakow (Palm Springs), Deadline reports. The movie is based on an original idea by horror veterans Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the duo behind Freddy vs. Jason and Friday the 13th (2009). “Dinklage will play Van Helsing, last in a long line of vampire hunters. He develops an uneasy partnership with a vampire (Momoa) who has taken a vow never to kill again. Together they run a scam from town to town, where Van Helsing pretends to anguish the vampire for money. But when a massive bounty is put on the vampire’s head, everything in this dangerous world full of monsters and magic is now after them.” Both Momoa and Dinklage will be producing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 20, 2020

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The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Remake Has Officially Wrapped Filming

Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing a remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger for Legendary Entertainment. Today, we’ve learned via a Tweet from Blair (below), who is not only directing but also wrote the script for the remake, that filming has now officially wrapped. In the 1984 original, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” Deadline has described the film as, “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in the vein of Deadpool. When a struggling everyman is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 14, 2021
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Kevin Bacon Starring In The ‘Toxic Avenger’ Reboot

A few days ago we reported that Elijah Wood had supposedly joined the cast of the new Toxic Avenger movie, today we have more casting news. Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Footloose, You Should Have Left) has also joined the cast of the remake and will play the role of the movie’s main villain, THR reports. Bacon will star alongside Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Jacob Tremblay (The Predator), and Taylour Paige (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the movie written and directed by Macon Blair, who also wrote and directed I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore. In the 1984 original from Troma, “The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.” The new version is being described as “A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2021
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Peter Dinklage In Talks To Star In ‘The Toxic Avenger Reboot’

Troma is going mainstream with a reboot of the horror-comedy The Toxic Avenger which is being produced by Legendary Pictures, the company that brought you Jurassic Park, Crimson Peak, and many other blockbusters. According to Deadline, “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage is currently in talks to star in the film that will be directed by Macon Blair writer and director of Netflix’s I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore. There is no word yet what role Dinklage will play. The Toxic Avenger premiered in 1984 as a successful midnight movie in New York, becoming a cult classic and going on to spawn three sequels, a cartoon series, a musical, and a Marvel comic. In the movie, Toxic Avenger was created when a meek, bullied mop boy named Melvin falls into toxic waste. After mutating he sets out to stop evildoers. Loyd Kaufman, creator of Toxic Avenger and co-creator of Troma Studios will be producing along with his

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 1, 2020
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Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage Reunite For Horror Movie ‘Good Bad & Undead’

“Game of Thrones” alum Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage are reuniting for Legendary’s action-horror movie Good Bad & Undead, directed by Max Barbakow (Palm Springs), Deadline reports. The movie is based on an original idea by horror veterans Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the duo behind Freddy vs. Jason and Friday the 13th (2009). “Dinklage will play Van Helsing, last in a long line of vampire hunters. He develops an uneasy partnership with a vampire (Momoa) who has taken a vow never to kill again. Together they run a scam from town to town, where Van Helsing pretends to anguish the vampire for money. But when a massive bounty is put on the vampire’s head, everything in this dangerous world full of monsters and magic is now after them.” Both Momoa and Dinklage will be producing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 20, 2020