Fans of trash cinema love Tank Girl, but mainstream audiences did not when it hit cinemas 30 years ago despite a cast including Iggy Pop.

Iggy Pop, the frontman for the Stooges and known as the Godfather of Punk, once appeared on an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Chief among the failures was 1995’s Tank Girl, which turns 30 this month. Created in 1988 by Britons Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett (later of the virtual band Gorillaz), and published in Deadline ...