This time, they took
the wrong woman…
…because this one
fights back!
When
a deranged scientist abducts bodybuilder, Stormie Magnusson, and subjects her
to a series of psychotronically-induced experiments, she escapes and plans
revenge. In a short while, she assembles a group of friends she knew years
earlier and, together, they form a forceful platoon determined to bring the
scientist to justice, one way
or another. They are the—
AMAZON
SQUAD
As a teenager in the 1960s, I yearned to see movies in which women had a
more prominent role in action-adventure stories.
This screenplay evolved because of those dreams.
Admittedly, it is a young man’s fantasy, and that is certainly
evident in many of the sequences.
Originally inspired by Marvel Comics' Sgt Fury & the Howling
Commandos, I first wrote Amazon Squad as a short novella called The
Female Commandoes in 1973. By 1989, I had changed the title to The
Amazon Corps and began to embellish the plot for an amateur movie I wanted
to make.
I wrote to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service for some material
that I might have been able to use as background.
They were gracious enough to send me a series of pamphlets and booklets on
various aspects of the Service.
By the end of that year, I renamed The Amazon Corps to Amazon
Squad.
On 5 July 1990, I finished writing the screenplay. I spent the next few
weeks creating a continuity treatment, a shot list, and a rudimentary shooting
schedule.
I also began to look for a cast and crew but was unsuccessful in finding
four female bodybuilders to fill the main roles.
Eventually, I gave up.
But the script is still in my files, and now in print.
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