Elijah Wood of The Lord of the Rings fame has reportedly been cast as the main villain in Legendary Entertainment's Toxic Avenger reboot.

According to The Illuminerdi, Wood will play Bob Garbinger, whose description is as follows: "Leonine hair and eerie plastic surgery. 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 towns official but in reality he lives in fear of the underworld gang he’s indebted to."

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Legendary secured the rights to the franchise in 2018, and several months later, Macon Blair was tapped to write and direct the project. In early 2021, Toxic Avenger's original co-director Lloyd Kaufman commented on Blair's script, saying "it’s better than the original. Macon Blair knows Troma better than I do. He’s seen everything. He’s seen the cartoon, he’s seen the Halloween special... And he loves our movies like Troma’s War and Terror Firmer... He knows the Troma sense of humor, the combination of slapstick and satire with the environmental theme."

Based on the 1984 cult classic of the same name. Set in a fantasy world following Winston, a stereotypical weakling who works as a janitor at Garb-X health club and is diagnosed with a terminal illness that can only be cured by an expensive treatment that his greedy, power hungry employer refuses to pay for. After deciding to take matters into his own hands and rob his company, Winston falls into a pit of toxic waste and is transformed into a deformed monster that sets out to do good and get back at all the people who have wronged him.

Directed by Macon Blair, The Toxic Avenger stars Peter Dinklage and Jacob Tremblay. The film has yet to receive a release date.

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Source: The Illuminerdi