Three years after she stared in The Last Dragon, Denise “Vanity” Matthews, was featured alongside Carl Weathers in the 1988 action flick Action Jackson.
Action Jackson
Movie Summary: Due to the use of excessive force in arresting a sexual predator, Detective Lt. Jericho “Action” Jackson (Carl Weathers) is demoted to police sergeant. What’s worse, the father of the man he roughed up, Detroit industrialist Peter Dellaplane (Craig T. Nelson), declares war on Jackson, framing him for the murder of his own wife, Patrice (Sharon Stone). But Jericho manages to elude arrest and, with the help of a drug-addicted singer named Sydney (Vanity), goes after Dellaplane.⠀
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It grossed $20 million on an $8 million budget and made another $45 million in VHS sales.⠀
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While successful at the box office, the film received a negative reception from critics.⠀
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The soundtrack featured 2 new songs by Denise Matthews, known as Vanity at the time, “Faraway Eyes” and “Undress” both produced by musician Jesse Johnson and new music by Sister Sledge, The Pointer Sisters and Herbie Hancock.⠀
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Carl Weathers has said that the idea came about while he was filming “Predator” and talking to Joel Silver, who loved blaxploitation movies. ⠀
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Joel said, “Well, you know, why don’t you put something together?” So during that time of shooting down in Puerto Vallarta, He created this story and came up with this guy — or at least this title —Action Jackson. Joel found a writer who wrote the screenplay, and that was it. ⠀
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Weathers said he hoped the film would become a franchise but Lorimar sold the lot to Sony and sold the library to Warner Bros., and that was that. Unfortunately, it never resurfaced again.
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