Sausage Party Director Bringing The Toxic Avenger Back to Life
John Squires
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Released in 1984, cult classic The Toxic Avenger is undoubtedly Troma’s most beloved and iconic film, and talks of a remake have been swirling around the net for many years now. Like Mother’s Day before it, it will indeed soon get the remake treatment, and a director has been hired!
Per Deadline, Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon will direct a more grounded and mainstream telling of The Toxic Avenger. Mike Arnold and Chris Poole (“Archer”) will pen the screenplay, and the project is set up at Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein’s Storyscape Entertainment.
Toxic Avenger is a re-imagining of Troma’s cult classic, which tells the story of a New Jersey teenager whose accidental tumble into a vat of toxic waste turns him into a mutant superhero.
“The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite cult-classic from my high school years is an honor,” said Vernon. “Toxie is an underground icon. My favorite kind.”
Richard Saperstein is producing with Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road and Charlie Corwin. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Films, creators of the original franchise, will executive produce along with Cooper and Alex Schwartz of Storyscape Entertainment, and Greg Lessans of Weed Road.
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