True Story Of The Best Batman Movies Never Made

7. 1996 - Burton's Catwoman Spin-Off

Strangely enough, Burton wasn't entirely done with Batman even when he lost his threequel. He was a producer on Batman Forever - though probably in name only - and he also had another iron in the fire.

Batman Returns had a final scene that had been hastily added at great cost to suggest that we would be getting more of Catwoman. The plan was to have Burton direct a spin-off, with Michelle Pfeiffer again attached to star, with Burton's writer Daniel Waters writing again. He turned a script in in summer 1995 - specifically on the day that Batman Forever hit cinemas.

Waters says that 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."

His story had Catwoman suffering amnesia and moving from Gotham to Oasisville - the Batman universe's version of Las Vegas, which is run by superheroes - where she encounters some terrible, flawed male superhero types that push her back to the Catwoman identity. A bold idea, undoubtedly and one years ahead of its time.

Sadly, life got in the way, Pfeiffer had her first child and admitted her priorities had changed and Burton began to focus on an adaptation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher. Eventually both left the project, with Ashley Judd briefly replacing Pfeiffer as rewrites gutted the script until it was so unrecognisable that the final result was the Halle Berry starring monstrosity released in 2004.