Trailer
Plot summary
The Golden Lords, the gang that terrorizes the Washington, D.C., neighborhood where Jefferson Reed lives, are led by Simon Caine and work with the drug lord Anthony Byers. Jefferson teaches school there. One night he pulls a woman away from the gang and flees, and when he climbs out of a garbage dumpster a glowing green meteorite hits him, crushing his spine and burning him. Days later he wakes in a hospital, healed. The meteorite has left him able to fly, to see through things, to lift and run and hear far past ordinary limits, to heal, to learn a book's contents through touch, and to speak with dogs, including his own, Ellington. He tells his parents, Ted and Maxine, who urge him to use the powers for the community, and his mother makes him a costume.
Cast
- Roy Feganas Simon, Golden Lord Chief
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Meteor Man (1993)
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- Marvel Comics produced an adaptation, Meteor Man: The Movie, and a sequel in the form of a six-issue limited series set in the Marvel Universe; the Golden Lords went on to appear in Miles Morales: Spider-Man #5, where they battle Miles Morales as well as Tombstone's gang.
- Townsend stars as a mild-mannered teacher who becomes a superhero after his neighborhood in Washington, D.C., is terrorized by street gangs, in one of the earliest superhero films to feature an African American in a starring role.
- "Can't Let Her Get Away" by Michael Jackson appeared in the film, but was not included on the soundtrack album released alongside it.
- Although Washington was the setting of the story, the film itself was shot in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.
