Catwoman needs no introduction.
Its reputation as one of the worst films ever made was established practically from day one, and its dismal performance at the global box office ($82 million from a $100 million budget) killed any chances of it becoming the next big franchise.
It didn’t help that it released the same summer as the widely acclaimed Spider-Man 2, putting the folks at Warner Bros.
and DC Comics in a rather unenviable position.
Seven months later, at the same time its competitor was winning an Academy Award, Catwoman was collecting the statuettes for Worst Picture and Worst Director at the Golden Raspberry Awards – the perfect encapsulation of the whole ordeal.
For a project that had started life with such promise (as a Batman Returns spin-off with Michelle Pfeiffer in the lead role and Tim Burton in the directing chair), the result had been nothing short of a disaster.
Such…
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