Based on the J. Scott Campbell comic book Danger Girl from Image Comics.
Kate Beckinsale, Milla Jovovich and Sofía Vergara were attached to star as the female leads but it was a rumor.
New Line Cinema bought the rights for the comic in July 1998 for $275,000 against $500,000, which included having creators of the comic, J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell, developing the story and writing the script for the movie, even though they never wrote a movie script before. New Line planned to turn Danger Girl into another R rated comic book film like they did with Spawn (1997) and Blade (1998). However, Campbell and Hartnell wanted to stay closer to the comic, and after mixed reactions on their 152 pages long script, New Line spent next couple years giving other screenwriters a shot at the script.
There were always lot of the same complaints everyone had with the scripts, such as them being too formulaic and nothing that wasn't seen before, or how the tone and stories were nothing like the comic they were based on, mostly due to New Line producers insisting on more serious and darker comic book film like Spawn and Blade. Another issue was the large amount of nudity the writers kept adding in the scripts. Due to this, many "sexy" moments which were more humorous in the comics, for example captured Sydney Savage seducing the guard, were lot different in the scripts, like her being stripped completely naked by force.
Mark Swift and Damian Shannon were some of the writers who worked on the scripts. They were hired by New Line in summer of 2000 to write a version of Danger Girl which would have been more like something they wanted to make. Swift and Shannon's drafts were very similar in tone to their other work, like the violence and sex filled Freddy Vs Jason (2003) and Friday the 13th (2009), but then New Line decided to stop the production because "female action doesn't sell", although producers liked their work on Danger Girl scripts which is how they got the job of writing Freddy Vs Jason.
For almost twenty years the film adaptation went through more of the same problems with scripts and false starts, like how in 2010 Hitman: Agent 47 producer Adrian Askarieh announced how he was developing a Danger Girl film with Todd Lincoln as director. In November 2017, Constantin Film acquired the rights for a film and potential TV series. In February 2018, Umair Aleem was announced as the film's writer, but then in March 2019 Jeff Wadlow was hired to write and direct the film.
There were always lot of the same complaints everyone had with the scripts, such as them being too formulaic and nothing that wasn't seen before, or how the tone and stories were nothing like the comic they were based on, mostly due to New Line producers insisting on more serious and darker comic book film like Spawn and Blade. Another issue was the large amount of nudity the writers kept adding in the scripts. Due to this, many "sexy" moments which were more humorous in the comics, for example captured Sydney Savage seducing the guard, were lot different in the scripts, like her being stripped completely naked by force.
Mark Swift and Damian Shannon were some of the writers who worked on the scripts. They were hired by New Line in summer of 2000 to write a version of Danger Girl which would have been more like something they wanted to make. Swift and Shannon's drafts were very similar in tone to their other work, like the violence and sex filled Freddy Vs Jason (2003) and Friday the 13th (2009), but then New Line decided to stop the production because "female action doesn't sell", although producers liked their work on Danger Girl scripts which is how they got the job of writing Freddy Vs Jason.
For almost twenty years the film adaptation went through more of the same problems with scripts and false starts, like how in 2010 Hitman: Agent 47 producer Adrian Askarieh announced how he was developing a Danger Girl film with Todd Lincoln as director. In November 2017, Constantin Film acquired the rights for a film and potential TV series. In February 2018, Umair Aleem was announced as the film's writer, but then in March 2019 Jeff Wadlow was hired to write and direct the film.