



He is chased around the health club and out a second story window. They trick Melvin into wearing a pink tutu and amorously hugging a sheep. His tormentors murder a young boy on a bike with their car and take photos of the carnage afterward. Melvin Ferd Junko III is a weakling who works as a janitor at a health club in the fictional town of Tromaville, New Jersey, where the customers-particularly Bozo, Slug, Wanda and Julie-harass him constantly. In 2019, it was announced that Legendary Entertainment would be producing a reboot of the film, with original creators Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment serving as producers and Macon Blair serving as writer and director. The film has generated a media franchise including three film sequels, a stage musical production, a video game and a children's TV cartoon. Virtually ignored upon its first release, The Toxic Avenger caught on with filmgoers after a long and successful midnight movie engagement at the Bleecker Street Cinema in Greenwich Village in late 1985. The film was released by Troma Entertainment, known for producing low budget B-movies with campy concepts and gruesome violence. It is the first installment of The Toxic Avenger franchise. Study up on the sequels, comic book series, and stage musical (!) if you feel like this guy is your next favorite super-person.The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 American superhero black comedy splatter film directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman (credited as Samuel Weil) and written by Kaufman and Joe Ritter. And that’s just about your basics if you want to know what to look forward to for Dinklage’s take on the hero. A baddie named Cigar Face becomes his nemesis. He engages in some light vigilantism, so much that people start calling him “The Toxic Avenger.” He makes his Batcave equivalent in a junkyard. A la a Spider-Man spider bite gone wrong, Ferd gets himself some powers-superhuman size and strength-but emerges with major deformations. (In the best way.) It followed Melvin Ferd, a down-on-his-luck type who, after a being bullied a whole bunch, falls into a drum of toxic waste.

The Toxic Avenger was about as much of a B-movie as you could get. But yeah, we’re not blaming you if you don’t know what the hell a Toxic Avenger is-so here’s a quick rundown so you can get properly hyped for Dinklage’s next role. This isn’t to be confused with an Avengers Avenger by the way-Dinklage’s film will be based on the 1984 action-comedy/cult classic, and I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore director Macon Blair will helm the project. According to Deadline, Dinklage will continue his post- Game of Thrones run by starring in a reboot of The Toxic Avenger. Thankfully, it looks like Dinklage caught the superhero bug again. What Does the Return of Jamie Foxx's Electro Mean?.
