Batman Returns  Screenwriter Says Tim Burton Was ‘Exhausted’ By Catwoman

December 29, 2023 @ 4:01 PM

“Batman Returns” screenwriter Daniel Seas defined distinctions in between his innovative vision for a “Catwoman” offshoot which of follow up supervisor Tim Burton.

The offshoot job would certainly have fixated Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman, and Seas imagined a comics witticism movie just like Prime Video clip’s “The Boys.” Burton, however, pictured Pfeiffer’s Selina Kyle residing in a village. Seas revealed information in a current conversation regarding “Batman Returns” (1992) after a testing of the movie at the Egyptian Theater.

“He wanted to do an $18 million black-and-white movie, like the original ‘Cat People,’ of Selina just low-key living in a small town,” Seas claimed. “And I wanted to make a ‘Batman’ movie where the metaphor was about Batman. So I had her move to a Los Angeles version of Gotham City and it’s run by three asshole superheroes. It was ‘The Boys’ before ‘The Boys.’ But he got exhausted reading my script.”

According to Seas, the initial “Batman Returns” movie script draft included numerous digs at Burton’s initial “Batman” movie, launched in movie theaters in 1989. The opening of the follow up originally included a pan-out from the Batman logo design to reveal a goods shop within deep space of the Caped Crusader, with the Dark Knight himself referencing all the important things that might be acquired throughout the motion picture. “[Michael] Keaton said, ‘This is very clever. Cut it,’” Seas claimed of the recommendations.

Seas likewise kept in mind the reaction from the 1992 follow up from followers that explained the manuscript’s absence of devoted adjustment for Catwoman’s and The Penguin’s (Danny DeVito) backstories.

“The whole thing about ‘Batman Returns’ is we got attacked by Batman fans because they thought, ‘This is only the second Batman movie, what the fuck are you doing? You’re already going off-road,” Seas proceeded. “Now there’s like 50 Batman movies, it’s like, ‘Hey. That was pretty interesting.’”

This was initially reported by IndieWire.