Legendary Entertainment has tasked Macon Blair to write and direct a reboot of the Troma Entertainment satirical superhero character “The Toxic Avenger,” the Lylod Kaufman-led studio that helped launch the career of director James Gunn (“The Suicide Squad,” “The Guardians of The Galaxy“) and is known for cheaply-made shock genre filmmaking.
READ MORE: Filmmaker Macon Blair To Write & Direct ‘The Toxic Avenger’ Reboot Originally released in 1984, the superhero parody film focused on a scrawny janitor named Melvin, who is thrown into a batch of radioactive toxic sludge by a group of bullies only to be transformed into the hulking disfigured tutu-wearing vigilante brute known as the Toxic Avenger.
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