Tim Burton wanted to make ‘Batman Returns’ a black-and-white version of 1942’s ‘Cat People’!
Tim Burton wanted to make ‘Batman Returns’ an $18 million black-and-white version of 1942’s ‘Cat People’. The ‘Batman’ director ended up producing a movie featuring Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle, who becomes Catwoman, and Michael Keaton returning as the caped crusader. But its screenwriter Daniel Waters told Variety about the torturous process of making the 1992 movie: “(Tim) wanted to do an $18 million black-and-white movie, like the original ‘Cat People,’ of Selina just low-key living in a small town. “And I wanted to make a ‘Batman’ movie where the metaphor was about Batman. “So I had (S...