Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of Legendary Entertainment's Toxic Avenger reboot.

According to THR, Bacon will play the film's yet-to-be-named villain. This follows a recent report suggesting Elijah Wood was up for the role.

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Legendary secured the rights to the Toxic Avenger 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, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige and Kevin Bacon. The film has yet to receive a release date.

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Source: THR