Tim Burton's Catwoman
Michelle Pfeiffer's Selina Kyle was sent to a strange resort town in a completed spin-off script, but Tim Burton drifted away and Warner Bros. transformed the title into another film.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- detailed preproduction
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
An unmade Batman Returns spin-off developed for Michelle Pfeiffer with Tim Burton attached.
An amnesiac Selina Kyle would recover in a superficially perfect resort while Catwoman uncovered its corruption.
Existence timeline
Warner Bros. asks Daniel Waters for a Catwoman film.
Selina awakens in a resort called Oasisburg.
The director considers a smaller black-and-white film.
Key participants move to other productions.
Warner Bros. develops unrelated Catwoman scripts.
A new character replaces the Pfeiffer continuation.
Why it ended
Burton and Pfeiffer moved to other projects, and Daniel Waters' script was never produced.
Last confirmed trace
The screenplay and later interviews with Waters describe the black-and-white, low-budget concept.
What it left behind
The abandoned spin-off preserves an alternate route for comic-book films centred on Burton's Selina Kyle.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to detailed_preproduction under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.