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unexampled item about Tim Burton ’s canceledBatmanspin - off movie have been revealed by the project ’s screenwriter , detailing some bold creative conclusion that come close to being a world . After Michelle Pfeiffer steal the show inBatman Returnsalongside Michael Keaton ’s Batman , Burton was commit the chance to proceed his imagination with aCatwoman whirl - off moviearound 1992 . The task never get along to light , woefully , but nowBatman Returnswriter Daniel Waters has spoken toIndieWireto confirm some surprising contingent .
According to water , both he and Burton acquaint very different ideas for theCatwomanspin - off movie that finally became one of the manycanceled Batman flick . Michelle Pfeiffer would , of course , have generate , and one tar on the face of it took locoweed - shots at Michael Keaton ’s Batman . Burton ’s vision clean everything back , while Waters ' channelled the same anarchic intent ofThe Boys :
“ He wanted to do an $ 18 million dark and white movie , like the original Cat People , of Selina just lowkey living in a small Ithiel Town . And I wanted to make a Batman picture where the metaphor was about Batman . So I had her move to a Los Angeles variant of Gotham City , and it ’s consort by three asshole superheroes . It was The Boys before The Boys . But he got fatigued reading my book . ”
The DCEU has an wide account of ups and downs over the age , include several moving-picture show that were announced but that ended up never being made .
Why Tim Burton’s Catwoman Spin-Off Never Happened
Despite how exciting it would have been to see Tim Burton stay on his Batman visual sensation , even only in spin - off manikin , the production lost momentum very quickly . Both Burton and star Pfeiffer go on to focus on other projects and Joel Schumacher came on board as the new helmer of the Batman movie universe forBatman Foreverin 1995.Catwomanactually hung around in development hell for years , before being dramatically transformed into the Halle Berry vehicle of 2004 .
Waters antecedently reveal some details about the canned project :
“ After the psychic trauma of the Batman Returns she has amnesia , and she does n’t really retrieve why she has all these bullet hole in her body , so she goes to make relaxed in Oasisburg . What Gotham City is to New York , Oasisburg is to Las Vegas - Los Angeles - Palm Springs . [ It ’s a ] recourse area in the middle of the desert . It ’s incline by superheroes , and the movie has great sport at make playfulness at the whole male superhero mythos . Then they terminate up being not very skillful at all deep down , and she ’s got to go back to that whole Catwoman matter . ”
Waters’The boy - like vibration forCatwomanwas almost also borrow in an early adaptation ofBatman Returns , which the screenwriter pitched as a meta take - down of Batman ( 1989 ) , which he hated . It would have open up with a shot of the Batman logo , and would have panned out to divulge a ware store fill with Batman merch . That would have been Waters ' comment on the exploitative merchandising of the franchise , withBatmanmaking several pointed references during the continuation . Michael Keaton ’s reaction shut it down:“[Michael ] Keaton said , ‘ This is very clever . Cut it . ' "
