Last month, director Steve Pink and Jack Black were attached to an adaptation of "How To Survive A Robot Uprising." But before the machines come to destroy our world, Pink may be exploring something... a little more Toxic.
Pink has agreed to direct and co-write a remake of "The Toxic Avenger, according to Deadline. Daniel C. Mitchell ("Dead Last") is writing the script with Pink and the film will be produced by Akiva Goldsman, Richard Saperstein and Charlie Corwin. The new film is described as "an environmentally-conscious action-comedy."
"'The Toxic Avenger' is exactly what the country--wait, that's not big enough--what the world needs right now," said Pink in a statement. Pink is best known as the director of "Accepted" and "Hot Tub Time Machine," in addition to writing "Grosse Pointe Blank" and "High Fidelity." He also produced the Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz action comedy, "Knight and Day."
The original "Toxic Avenger" movie was released in 1984 by Troma Entertainment. Directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz from a script by Kaufman and Joe Ritter; the story followed a geek named Melvin Ferd (Mark Torgl) who was bullied and cruelly dumped into a vat of toxic waste which transformed him into a grossly mishapen man who came to be known as the Toxic Avenger aka Toxie (Mitch Cohen).
In addition to becoming one of the most popular titles from Troma's film catalog, "The Toxic Avenger" spawned three sequels, a stage musical and even an animated series called "The Toxic Crusader," which featured Toxie as the leader of a group of mutated superheroes.
Although a promised fifth "Toxic Avenger" movie has been mentioned for years, Kaufman and Herz are also attached to executive produce the remake.
