DC Showcase: Catwoman

[aeka]

Say what you will about Eliza Dushku, I think she sounds puuurrrrrfect as Catwoman. ;)

Damnit, I want Holly Robinson back in Catwoman's book. :<

I Also want more Catwoman animations. :3

For legality: Old DCU Bruce being a softy around Selina never gets old!

Comments

[thehefner]

While it makes sense for it to be Holly since the video is meant to be a supplement to Batman: Year One, it doesn't help the fact that so few people (including writers) seem to know anything about Selina's rich backstory. If stories like this are any indication, her history and personality are not what many fans and writers are interested in when it comes to Catwoman.

[rdfox]

Paul Dini used Maggie and Selina's backstory in Gotham City Sirens.

My guess is that his choice was to avoid continuity issues that might not be accurate to the Year One movie.

Also, Holly's been generally depicted as a redhead, or at least strawberry blonde, ever since Countdown.

[thehefner]

Did he? I thought that was only Tony Bedard. Either way, Sister Zero was such shit.

What continuity issues do you mean? Continuity with Year One fits modern day continuity pretty seamlessly. Or at least, it did until the DCnU.

[rdfox]

I haven't seen the movie yet, so I don't know how closely it sticks to the Year One comic; it might not mesh nearly as well.

Either that, or maybe Dini didn't want to try and cover that much of her backstory when he had a total of 15 minutes to work with? (I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually told he had less, and then the striptease sequence was somewhat extended, either.)

[thehefner]

The movie sticks closely for the most part, and definitely so where it counts for Selina and Holly's friendship. The short is clearly expressly made to accompany Batman: Year One, both the movie and the comic, even if it doesn't match up with what Mindy Newell and Ed Brubaker subsequently did with Holly.

I think he just didn't care, and wanted to tell a sexy, action-packed story. And/or, that's what he was hired to write.