Tim Burton needed to make a Catwoman film that may have been an $18 million black-and-white model of 1942’s Cat Folks.
Burton first debuted his model of Catwoman, performed by Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns, reverse Michael Keaton’s Batman. The movie ended with a scene teasing the return of Pfeiffer’s character, and for years there was speak of a Catwoman spinoff film. It by no means occurred — till DC made a very unrelated (and fairly horrible) Catwoman film in 2004, that includes Halle Berry as a special incarnation of the feline anti-hero.
Clearly, that’s not what Burton had in thoughts. His Batman Returns screenwriter Daniel Waters not too long ago revealed Burton’s authentic plan at an L.A. screening of Batman Returns — and the way his take completely different from Burton’s. He defined (through Indiewire) …
[Tim] needed to do an $18 million black-and-white film, like the unique Cat Folks, of Selina simply low-key dwelling in a small city. And I needed to make a Batman film the place the metaphor was about Batman. So I had [Catwoman] transfer to a Los Angeles model of Gotham Metropolis, and it’s run by three assh— superheroes. It was The Boys earlier than The Boys. However he acquired exhausted studying my script.
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Waters additionally revealed how his preliminary script for Batman Returns was way more meta than the one we noticed, and included materials aimed toward poking enjoyable on the first Batman film, and the best way it turned a popular culture phenomenon with each potential merchandising tie-in. Waters stated the preliminary plan was for Returns to be gun with the Batman brand — and a reveal that it was at a retailer promoting merchandise in Gotham Metropolis. Batman would have made jokes in regards to the merchandise as nicely, however Waters stated Michael Keaton advised him “That is very intelligent. Reduce it.”
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