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  • Peter Dinklage’s ‘Toxic Avenger’ movie adds Elijah Wood, Julia Davis

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actors Elijah Wood and Julia Davis will feature alongside Peter Dinklage in Legendary’s reboot of the 1984 film “Toxic Avenger”.

    Directed by Macon Blair, the reboot will be a contemporary re-imagining of Troma Entertainment’s 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit.

    Blair has also penned the script for the film, which will follow a struggling everyman who, when pushed into a vat of toxic waste, is transformed into a mutant freak.

    The man must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends, and his community from the forces of corruption and greed.

    The details of Wood and Davis’ characters have not been disclosed, reported Deadline.

    Recently, actor Kevin Bacon was roped in by the makers for the role of the antagonist in the movie.

    Jacob Tremblay and Taylour Paige will also star in the film, which will cover environmental themes and subvert the superhero genre in the vein of “Deadpool”.

    Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz from Troma Entertainment will serve as producers.

    The long and successful 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 third independent sequel, titled “Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV”, was released in 2000.

    The intellectual property (IP) also became a stage musical production, a children’s cartoon TV series and a Marvel comic.

  • Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett set to reunite as ‘Lord of the Rings’ turns 20

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Hollywood stars Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, and others from Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning movie trilogy will reunite to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’.

    According to People magazine, the cast will reunite in three different Q&As for Alamo Drafthouse’s “Support Local Cinemas” series. TV host Stephen Colbert, who is a superfan of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, will join the cast and crew to moderate all three, separate Q&A sessions.

    Wood, Astin, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan, who played the four hobbits in the franchise will answer questions touching on ‘The Fellowship of the Rings’. The following week, Blanchett, Mortensen, Tyler, and Orlando Bloom will reunite for a Q&A on ‘The Two Towers’, followed up by Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, and Jackson ending the series by answering fan questions on ‘The Return of the King’.

    As per People magazine, the reunion Q&A content will initially be exclusive to theatrical screenings of the new 4K remastering of the trilogy. As part of the campaign, Alamo Drafthouse is making the Q&A presentations available for free in movie theaters around the world.