Kevin Bacon to play antagonist in Toxic Avenger reboot

Actor Kevin Bacon will essay the function of villain in Legendary’s reboot of the 1984 movie Toxic Avenger. Directed by Macon Blair, the reboot will probably be a recent re-imagining of Troma Entertainment’s 1984 low-budget motion comedy hit.

Bacon, the Hollywood star recognized with movies equivalent to Footloose, A Few Good Men, Hollow Man and Mystic River to his credit, joins Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay and Taylour Paige.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Toxic Avenger will cowl environmental themes and subvert the superhero style in the vein of Deadpool.

Blair has additionally penned the script for the movie, which is able to comply with a struggling everyman who, when pushed right into a vat of poisonous waste, is reworked right into a mutant freak. The man should go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his mates, and his group from the forces of corruption and greed.

Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz from Troma Entertainment will function producers. The lengthy and profitable run of The Toxic Avenger spawned sequels The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989) and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989).

A 3rd unbiased sequel, titled Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, was launched in 2000.

The mental property (IP) additionally grew to become a stage musical manufacturing, a kids’s cartoon TV sequence and a Marvel comedian.

Bacon at present options in Showtime’s crime drama sequence City on a Hill. He lately wrapped filming for crime thriller “One Way” with Travis Fimmel.