How Not to Talk to Women: the “Catwoman” Disaster
By Andrea Thompson
There was a seed of an idea that sprang up way back in 1992, shortly after the release of Batman Returns. Since Michelle Pfeiffer basically stole the whole damn show and gave us one of our most iconic versions of Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman, there were plans to give Pfeiffer her own spin-off. After years of what’s popularly known as “development hell”, these efforts would eventually result in one of the worst films of all time. Both a critical and box office flop, 2004’s Catwoman ushered in an era that saw a troubling scarcity of female-led action movies, a genre which has only just begun to improve over the past few years.
