Despite being one of the most notorious comic films of all time, Halle Berry wants another try with Catwoman. Except this time, she also wants to sit on the director’s chair.
After her directorial debut, the current Netflix film Bruised, Berry hinted at her ambitions, Vanity fair during a career retrospective. From modeling in Chicago to becoming the first (and still only) black woman to win an Oscar for best actress, Berry’s career has had a number of ups and downs. There are critical favorites like Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and Monster ball, and then there’s a movie where fallout would make many forget about it. But in the interview Berry confronts Cat woman, her ill-fated 2004 DC Comics film.
“I would definitely direct the next one Cat woman,” She says. “I think I would redeem myself. As a filmmaker, I would change history completely now. I would change the characters. I want Catwoman to save the world from disaster like male cartoon characters do. “
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Originally intended as a sequel to Tim Burton’s Batman films, the first idea for a Cat woman In the film, Michelle Pfeiffer temporarily left Gotham for a desert resort called Oasisburg. Intended as an adult portrayal, it was in stark contrast to what Warner Bros. wanted from DC Comics at the time, which was more family-friendly fare like 1995’s Batman forever.
Pfeiffer eventually jumped out of standalone, leading WB to offer the role to Ashley Judd, who eventually also died. The project languished in so-called development hell until Berry came on board after a failed attempt to outsource her character Jinx in the James Bond film die Another Day.
WB hired Pitof, a French visual effects supervisor who had a film under his belt at the time, to drive the Berry vehicle. He certainly had a vision and wanted to focus heavily on the “cats” part of. focus Cat woman. Choreographer Anne Fletcher was included in the film to help Berry act and even think like a cat.
“Pitof wanted Catwoman’s physicality to be as real as possible,” Fletc her said in a Interview 2003
How feline a human body can become is not seriously investigated in Pitof’s Catwoman. Rather, it examines how confusing a single scene of Halle Berry and Benjamin Bratt can get in basketball. The footage doesn’t look so much like a 90s music video, but rather the result of someone explaining the concept of a 90s music video to a friend in a noisy restaurant and Pitof, who overheard the conversation, going out and trying to remember the details.
Aside from trying too hard to direct, the film didn’t let Berry take much in to work with. As in a. mentioned 2016 scientific work by Caroline Heldman, Laura Lazarus Frankel and Jennifer Holmes on female protagonists, the film Catwomans presents “agency, power and freedom as a derivative of their hypersexualization” and leaves Berry’s character “without a core identity”. That’s not too far from what costume designer Angus Strathie im like Press releases on the film
Cat woman was a critical and commercial flop, eventually winning Berry the Razzie for Worst Actress of the Year. She commented on the importance of being a “good loser” at Vanity Fair and proudly looks back on her decision to attend the event. “If I can show up to get an Oscar when you honor me, I can certainly pick up a razzie if you say try it but do better,” she says. After the show, she set her razzie on fire.
It is very unlikely that Berry would continue Pitof’s path. Rather, their more recent roles, as in Bruised and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum provide better clues. In the Vanity Fair career, Berry praises Parabellum Co-star Keanu Reeves for doing his own stunts by her side and showing that “age is just a number”. Berry seems more enlivened by the “gloomy” and physical worlds one sees in John Wick and Bruised, so it stands to reason that they Cat woman would be something like that.
Although Berry doesn’t necessarily want to repeat the exhaustive process of self-staging, her work with Spike Lee at the beginning of her two careers taught “never, never, never to say.” Yes, Zoë Kravitz will play Catwoman / Selina Kyle in the upcoming DC reboot The Batman, but … if Zack Snyder gets a second chance Justice League, why don’t you try Halle Berry again with Catwoman?