21 Batman Movies That Almost Happened

13. Burton's Catwoman Spin-Off

The final scene of Batman Returns - which was hastily added at great cost - suggested that we would see more of Catwoman, but with Burton moving out of the director's seat and a whole new vision for Batman Forever, she wasn't intended to return to a Batman sequel. Instead, Michelle Pfeiffer was attached to a spin-off, with Burton once more directing, and Daniel Waters writing again.

The script was turned in in summer 1995 - on June 6th as Batman Forever hit cinemas - which turned out to be a ridiculous decision by Waters, by his own admission:

"Turning it in the day Batman Forever opened may not have been my best logistical move, in that it's the celebration of the fun-for-the-whole-family Batman. Catwoman is definitely not a fun-for-the-whole-family script."

It would have had Catwoman suffering amnesia and ensconced in Oasisville - the Bat-universe's answer to Las Vegas, run by superheroes - where she encounters some terrible, flawed male superhero types that push her back to the Catwoman identity, which quite frankly sounds awful.

In the end, life got in the way, as Pfeiffer admitted her priorities had changed with the arrival of her first child, and because of other projects, and Burton wondered whether to concentrate on an adaptation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher. Eventually, Ashley Judd replaced Pfeiffer and Burton departed, paving the way for various rewrites and reimaginations to spew out the awful 2004 Catwoman that bore no resemblance to Burton's Batman films.