Black Scorpion (film)
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| Written by | Craig J. Nevius |
| Directed by | Jonathan Winfrey |
| Starring |
Joan Severance Bruce Abbott Garrett Morris |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Roger Corman Lance H. Robbins |
| Producer(s) | Mike Elliott |
| Cinematography | Geoff George |
| Editor(s) | Tom Petersen Gwyneth Gibby |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Production company(s) | New Horizons |
| Distributor | Showtime |
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| Original network | Showtime |
Black Scorpion is a 1995 comedy-action film starring Joan Severance as the eponymous costumed crime fighter. Roger Corman was the executive producer, and it was originally released on the Showtime cable network as part of the Roger Corman Presents series.
The film concerns the comic book style adventures of Darcy Walker, a police detective whose secret identity is the Black Scorpion, a superhero vigilante for justice. The Black Scorpion does not have any actual super powers but, like Batman, she fights evildoers with a combination of martial arts, great agility and strength, and many technological devices, including a high powered, specially equipped car. And like the Batman TV series of the 1960s, Black Scorpion is a work of camp, using deliberately exaggerated and unrealistic characters and events to comic effect.
Black Scorpion was followed by a 1997 sequel, Black Scorpion II: Aftershock. In 2001, the Sci-Fi Channel aired a Black Scorpion TV series that starred Michelle Lintel in the title role.
Black Scorpion was turned into a comic book, published digitally exclusively through Devil's Due Digital.
Darcy Walker becomes the Black Scorpion after her father is murdered.
The film was based on an original idea by Corman which he developed with writer Craig Nevius. "I wanted to do a female Superman-Spiderman-Batman," said Corman.
Roger Corman said he wanted an unknown to play the lead.
My demands were -- I felt -- not difficult in Hollywood. I wanted an actress who was beautiful and had a great figure. Because we economized on the amount of cloth we used in the costume... I wanted a tall actress. She does a lot of martial arts. I couldn't have a 5-foot-1 actress beating up all these big guys. So I wanted a tall, beautiful woman with a good figure, who was a good actress but I wasn't looking for Meryl Streep, just a good actress. I figured this would be pretty easy in Hollywood. It turned out to be incredibly difficult. I've never seen so many beautiful bad actresses in my life.
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