10 Things You Need To Know About Tim Burton's Batman Forever
4. ...And It Could've Lead To A Spin-Off
All of the information about the third Batman film is mostly based on rumours, early reports and speculation, since the film never actually entered the scripting stage. Still, during those early plans the return of Catwoman was apparently being set up as the tease for a spin-off film that would've starred Selina Kyle going on her own adventures.
Pre-figuring the current trend for Shared Cinematic Universes and solo superhero films, Michelle Pfeiffer was in line to reprise Catwoman not only in Batman 3 but also her own movie. Like Batman Returns, the Catwoman film was to be scripted by Heathers mastermind Daniel Waters. In fact he actually wrote the screenplay, characterising it as definitely not a fun-for-the-whole-family script, and handing it in the same day that Batman Forever opened.
Impeccable timing, that. It never got made, and instead audiences were lumbered with that Halle Berry-starring monstrosity.