Toxie is coming back to life in a brand new movie from Legendary Entertainment, and Entertainment Weekly got their hands on a whole stack of exclusive images.
Macon Blair (I DON’t FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD AMYMORE) directed the upcoming remake of the Troma classic, and what a cast!
The film focuses on Winston Gooze, played by Peter Dinklage!
Elijah Wood, Julia Davis, Taylour Paige, Kevin Bacon, and Jacob Tremblay also star in THE TOXIC AVENGER, and you can meet their characters in the images below.
Macon Blair tells EW that Elijah Wood’s Fritz Garbinger is “a sort of Riff Raff from THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and the Danny DeVito Penguin mixed together.”
I see more than a bit of Smeagol in there too!
Troma previews, “While the original film (which premiered in 1984 – almost 40 years ago!) followed the fate of Melvin Ferd Junko III (Mitch Cohen), who goes from zero to toxic hero in a case of bullying gone awry, Macon Blair’s contemporary take follows a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength all his own.
“Peter Dinklage stars as downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze who, after falling into a vat of toxic waste, becomes none other than The Toxic Avenger. This timely reimagining is up to its eyeballs in environmental themes as Winston goes up against the evil forces of greed and corruption to save his son, his friends, and his community.”
The official synopsis also notes, “Even as this story exists on its own terms, the spirit undoubtedly remains connected to the original. Troma fans old and new will be pleased to know that the film has been rated “R” for violence and gore – as per Troma tradition.”
