It was a pilot for a proposed TV series based on the comic strip The Phantom.
[1] It is widely believed that the pilot never aired, but decades after it was filmed it leaked onto the internet.
[1] It has been criticized as having an incoherent script which fails to provide important backstory and motivation for the characters or explanation for the settings.
[2] Writer John Carr originally wrote four episodes, but because the pilot was not picked up by a network, the remaining three were never filmed.
Actress Marilyn Manning had originally been cast as Diana Palmer, but never appeared in the pilot.