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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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Elijah Wood Will Face The ‘Toxic Avenger’ In Upcoming Reboot

Back in 2019, we reported that a reboot of the 80s cult classic The Toxic Avenger was in the works. We can now report that Lord of the Rings actor Elijah Wood (Come to Daddy) has been cast as the film’s villain. According to The Illuminerdi, Wood will play Bob Garbinger, whose description is as follows: “Leonine hair and eerie plastic surgery. The evil head of the shady company Garb X. He has no regard for the well-being of anyone but himself and embarks on a murderous spree to become as powerful as Toxie. His ego is bolstered by his standing amongst the town’s official but in reality, he lives in fear of the underworld gang he’s indebted to.” Macon Blair serves as both writer and director for the reboot which got its seal of approval from Toxic Avenger‘s original co-director Lloyd Kaufman, who had this to say about the script, “it’s better than the original. Macon Blair knows Troma

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 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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Friday The 13th Enter HBO’s ‘Room 104’ For Season 3

HBO’s multi genre-spanning series “Room 104” returns this September with twelve episodes that combine comedy, horror, and much more. Created by Jay and Mark Duplass (HBO’s “Animals.” and “Togetherness”), “the late-night, half-hour anthology series returns with 12 new episodes, telling unique and unexpected tales of the characters who pass through a single room of a typical American chain motel. While the room stays the same, every episode of the series features a different story, with the tone, plot, characters, and even the time period, changing with each installment. Tapping into a variety of genres, from dark comedy to poignant drama to musical romance, the stories and characters featured in season 3 include: a man searching for a cure to his chronic skin condition; the caretaker of an exotic animal looking to make a sale; estranged siblings reuniting to make an investment; and more. Filled with plenty of twists and surprises, this season offers a new discovery from one episode to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 29, 2019
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Macon Blair Remaking ‘The Toxic Avenger’

Legendary has been kicking around the idea to reboot The Toxic Avenger for a long time, now it seems they are finally setting the wheels in motion, announcing today that the film’s writer-director will be Macon Blair, whose film I Don’t Feel At Home In This World is now streaming on Netflix. Troma’s 1984 classic, from Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, tells the story of Melvin Ferd, a nerd working as a janitor in a New Jersey gym. Constantly picked on and bullied, Melvin is one day chased out of a second-story window landing in a drum of toxic waste which turns him into a hero with super-strength and a face only a mother could love. The Toxic Avenger then sets out to fight crime. Hopefully, more details will surface soon. If by some way you haven’t seen this gem, go check it out, it’s currently streaming on both Amazon Prime and Tubi.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 22, 2019
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Alexander Skarsgard Starring In Green Room Director’s Netflix Original ‘Hold The Dark’

‘Green Room‘ director Jeremy Saulnier’s next project, titled ‘Hold the Dark’, will be a Netflix exclusive. The film has an impressive cast including ‘True Blood’ actor Alexander Skarsgard, Jeffrey Wright, Riley Keough, James Badge Dale, and James Bloor. Skarsgard in True Blood Based on the novel by the same name written by William Giraldi, the film is set in the Alaskan wilderness where children are being killed by a pack of wolves. Macon Blair who worked with Saulnier on the film ‘Blue Ruin’ will adapt the script. Skarsgard will play the role of Vernon Slone, a father who returns home to find his son dead and his wife, played by Keogh, missing. Wright will co-star as a biologist trying to uncover why a pack of wolves has suddenly turned blood-thirsty, while Dale will play a detective trying to hunt down Vernon’s wife. Boor has been cast as a creepy, mysterious drifter in the town. At the moment that is all

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 13, 2017
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Bones Break And Blood Spills In The New Red Band Trailer For Green Room

A24 has just released the new brutal red band trailer for writer/Director Jeremy Saulnier’s brutal film Green Room. Watch as bones break and blood is spilled. In the film a punk band find themselves trapped after taking a gig at a secluded bar. When they witness a horrifying act of violence, they become the focus of the bar owner and his goon’s rage. They’re surrounded by skin heads, pit bulls and blades and there will be blood. They’re in the wrong place at the wrong time and now they’ll have to fight to survive. Green Room stars Patrick Stewart as the bar’s owner. Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Mark Webber, Callum Turner, Joe Cole, Eric Edelston, Macon Blair and Kai Lennox also star in the horror-thriller set to be released on May 13th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 9, 2016

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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
Horror Fuel

Elijah Wood Will Face The ‘Toxic Avenger’ In Upcoming Reboot

Back in 2019, we reported that a reboot of the 80s cult classic The Toxic Avenger was in the works. We can now report that Lord of the Rings actor Elijah Wood (Come to Daddy) has been cast as the film’s villain. According to The Illuminerdi, Wood will play Bob Garbinger, whose description is as follows: “Leonine hair and eerie plastic surgery. The evil head of the shady company Garb X. He has no regard for the well-being of anyone but himself and embarks on a murderous spree to become as powerful as Toxie. His ego is bolstered by his standing amongst the town’s official but in reality, he lives in fear of the underworld gang he’s indebted to.” Macon Blair serves as both writer and director for the reboot which got its seal of approval from Toxic Avenger‘s original co-director Lloyd Kaufman, who had this to say about the script, “it’s better than the original. Macon Blair knows Troma

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 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

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 1, 2020
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Friday The 13th Enter HBO’s ‘Room 104’ For Season 3

HBO’s multi genre-spanning series “Room 104” returns this September with twelve episodes that combine comedy, horror, and much more. Created by Jay and Mark Duplass (HBO’s “Animals.” and “Togetherness”), “the late-night, half-hour anthology series returns with 12 new episodes, telling unique and unexpected tales of the characters who pass through a single room of a typical American chain motel. While the room stays the same, every episode of the series features a different story, with the tone, plot, characters, and even the time period, changing with each installment. Tapping into a variety of genres, from dark comedy to poignant drama to musical romance, the stories and characters featured in season 3 include: a man searching for a cure to his chronic skin condition; the caretaker of an exotic animal looking to make a sale; estranged siblings reuniting to make an investment; and more. Filled with plenty of twists and surprises, this season offers a new discovery from one episode to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 29, 2019
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Macon Blair Remaking ‘The Toxic Avenger’

Legendary has been kicking around the idea to reboot The Toxic Avenger for a long time, now it seems they are finally setting the wheels in motion, announcing today that the film’s writer-director will be Macon Blair, whose film I Don’t Feel At Home In This World is now streaming on Netflix. Troma’s 1984 classic, from Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, tells the story of Melvin Ferd, a nerd working as a janitor in a New Jersey gym. Constantly picked on and bullied, Melvin is one day chased out of a second-story window landing in a drum of toxic waste which turns him into a hero with super-strength and a face only a mother could love. The Toxic Avenger then sets out to fight crime. Hopefully, more details will surface soon. If by some way you haven’t seen this gem, go check it out, it’s currently streaming on both Amazon Prime and Tubi.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 22, 2019
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Alexander Skarsgard Starring In Green Room Director’s Netflix Original ‘Hold The Dark’

‘Green Room‘ director Jeremy Saulnier’s next project, titled ‘Hold the Dark’, will be a Netflix exclusive. The film has an impressive cast including ‘True Blood’ actor Alexander Skarsgard, Jeffrey Wright, Riley Keough, James Badge Dale, and James Bloor. Skarsgard in True Blood Based on the novel by the same name written by William Giraldi, the film is set in the Alaskan wilderness where children are being killed by a pack of wolves. Macon Blair who worked with Saulnier on the film ‘Blue Ruin’ will adapt the script. Skarsgard will play the role of Vernon Slone, a father who returns home to find his son dead and his wife, played by Keogh, missing. Wright will co-star as a biologist trying to uncover why a pack of wolves has suddenly turned blood-thirsty, while Dale will play a detective trying to hunt down Vernon’s wife. Boor has been cast as a creepy, mysterious drifter in the town. At the moment that is all

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 13, 2017
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Bones Break And Blood Spills In The New Red Band Trailer For Green Room

A24 has just released the new brutal red band trailer for writer/Director Jeremy Saulnier’s brutal film Green Room. Watch as bones break and blood is spilled. In the film a punk band find themselves trapped after taking a gig at a secluded bar. When they witness a horrifying act of violence, they become the focus of the bar owner and his goon’s rage. They’re surrounded by skin heads, pit bulls and blades and there will be blood. They’re in the wrong place at the wrong time and now they’ll have to fight to survive. Green Room stars Patrick Stewart as the bar’s owner. Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Mark Webber, Callum Turner, Joe Cole, Eric Edelston, Macon Blair and Kai Lennox also star in the horror-thriller set to be released on May 13th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 9, 2016