Catwoman Gone to Seed

[Gorillaboss]

This pic DOES NOT instill confidence in the upcoming film...


http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0309/29/index.htm

[Rory L. Aronsky]

Pitof ought to learn that not all fetish shops in Toronto have the best costumes. At this rate, they might as well bring Joel Schumacher in to help out a bit. If ever a costume needed nipples, this is it.

[Reverend Ned]

Wow. That was incredibly unimpressive. How the hell does someone manage to make Halle Berry UN-sexy?.
And the costume looks really cheap, like it took (maybe) eight minutes tops to make that alleged cat-suit. If photos like these are supposed to excite people into seeing another big-screen "Batman" adaptation, then it's not going to work.

[Chris Gore]

Well they won't have to change the look once they make the inevitable porn parody. Yeah, this has cat crap written all over it.

[mruzick3]

Don't tell me that they're trying to revamp the character ala Ertha Kit. Geez Lueeez, doesn't anyone in the comic movie industry hear of just one villian and just one hero. Do we have to shovel out every damn character in the series for one 90 min movie? That's what the cartoon is for.

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Mike Ruzicka

[hamburgerman]

i want a batman movie with CLAYFACE!

[STLFilmClub]

I don't know if some of you folks are aware, but this Catwoman has nothing to do with a new Batman movie. This is a completely separate entity all-together.

Something to do with a woman who fights back against a perfume company because they do animal testing. Yes, it's supposed to be the same character...I think...but this is for the Catwoman movie, not the Batman one from Christpoher Nolan.

Oh, and the costume is horrible, by the way.

[mruzick3]

I looked it up on IMDB after my post and realized my blunder. I'm still going to rant about the rampant need to get every character in a comic book series into one movie though. Anyone else remember the simplistic, yet dark, nature of the first 'Batman' or 'Superman' for that matter?

Well, getting back to Catwoman. In my dime-store education of comics, I seem to remember a more complicated character behind Catwoman. She's not neccessarily on the good side but will help out Wayne/Batman when needing some sugar. Or is this my haze of vague memories?

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Mike Ruzicka

[automanic]

This is a little off the subject, but...

Anybody out there familiar with the graphic novel "The Dark Knight Returns" written by Frank Miller? I've thought since the first Batman movie that this story could be the best possible big-screen adaptation for the caped crusader.

And by the way, Christian Bale is cool, but he's no Batman. Not that George Clooney was either. Maybe Viggo Mortensen....

[Seedy Edgewick]

The Dark Knight Returns is, for my money, the single best Batman story out there. The problem with adapting it to film is threefold:

(1) The events in the comic conflict with the events in the movies. Remember, the Joker died at the end of Batman. And the Joker killed Wayne's parents, not some street thug.

(2) The four-part story is too long to adapt into one film, and editing it for length would tear the guts out of it. I mean, you NEED that whole street-gang storyline to set up the ending.

(3) One word: Superman.

I think The Dark Knight Returns as a comic is one of the best ever made, let alone the single best Batman story. But that's because it's a comic. Would a typical theater-goer understand the image of Selena Kyle dressed as Wonder Woman, bound, gagged, and beaten to hell by the Joker? Or the reference to fighting cops? It's details like these that make the comic so goddamn good. You'd have to lose all that stuff to make a film out of it.

Maybe a REALLY talented screenwriter could find a way to condense and adapt the story without gutting it. But my hopes aren't very high. If someone could pull it off, it might just redeem Warner Bros. of the diarrhetic turd that was Batman & Robin.

[Pete Vonder Haar]

Would audiences know Ollie used to be the Green Arrow?

Which actor do you use for Harvey Dent?

Could you get David Letterman to appear as "David Endocrine?"

If casting the leads for the individual "Batman" and "Superman" movies is turning into such a chore, imagine Warner Brothers trying to put something like this together.

[automanic]

Originally posted by Seedy Edgewick
(1) The events in the comic conflict with the events in the movies. Remember, the Joker died at the end of Batman. And the Joker killed Wayne's parents, not some street thug.

(2) The four-part story is too long to adapt into one film, and editing it for length would tear the guts out of it. I mean, you NEED that whole street-gang storyline to set up the ending.

(3) One word: Superman.

I agree, taking on a story like this would be a huge task, and producing this monster would be even more difficult. And, given the high-concept studio marketing crap that inevitably insinuates itself into every super-hero movie, it's probably not even worth it.

But, in a perfect world, we could have this movie. The joker shouldn't have been killed off. The penguin either. They broke a cardinal rule of having an arch-nemesis: he must be able to reappear later in the series. Also, the presence of Superman in the story adds to its epic quality -- I agree that studios would shit themselves trying to find a satisfactory Batman AND a Superman, but wouldn't it be great to see it?

The biggest problem could prove to be taming the sprawling plot line. One movie proves this is possible: L.A. Confidential. The novel it is adapted from covers several years and has tons of characters. The author, James Ellroy, has said that he wrote it so that it could never be made into a film; there was just too much material. When Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson approached him about a screen adaptation, he basically dared them to try it. The rest, as they say, is history.

I guess the bottom line is that it's possible but entirely improbable. I just keep hoping that the next Batman installment will be something worth watching, and not out of morbid curiosity.

[Phil Hall]

Catwoman? She looks like something the cat dragged in!
:mad:

[Vintango]

As much as I love Frank Miller, and would love to see a DK movie...it just couldn't be done. Batman and Superman are such pop culture icons, there's no way any studio would allow the needed amount of violence and depravity in the comic to make it into the final film. Everything that made the comic so real and gritty would eventually get taken out, and we'd end up with a buddy flick where Supes and Batman team up to take down a gang of street thugs. And Robin would be cast as a teenage boy, and the Joker would be a comical villain with no real threat. I hope no movie execs are reading this...I don't want to give anyone ideas...

A "year one" movie could be excellent though. And for the closest thing to a DK movie, check out the episode of the animated series that featured an adaptation of the fight with the mutant leader. Bruce Timm is my hero.

I have no comment on the Catwoman film....but I fear the worst.