Hey folks, Harry here... and sometimes the trades make me laugh so hard I have to breath into a papersack...Today was one of those moments when I turned to Variety to find out that Ashley Judd has signed onto CATWOMAN to play the lady patent leather and latex. Now that in and of itself wasn't the funny part, what was funny was the idea of saying that CATWOMAN was a rapidly developed project... I mean... It has spent massive years in development... Going from draft to draft to draft... from screenwriter to screenwriter so many times, I don't believe anyone could keep track.
It all started with Dan Waters (HEATHERS, HUDSON HAWK, HAPPY CAMPERS, MODEL DAUGHTER & BATMAN RETURNS) then moved onto Laeta Kalogridis (BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE FOUNTAIN SOCIETY, LUCRETIA, A TASTE FOR DEATH and TOMB RAIDER) then onto Theresa Rebeck (HARRIET THE SPY, GOSSIP, WENDY AND THE LOST BOYS, MILITARY RAPE and WIRED) then onto Kate Candella - sole credit then finally onto Christine Roum (BODYGUARD II, 'Law & Order', A STAR IS BORN remake, EVERY DAY and DON'T SAY A WORD).
And the drafts started about a week after BATMAN RETURNS opened in theaters. Stay tuned though... Moriarty and I are on the case to find out as much as we can...
