Cat Fight

Catwoman: Hunted sees the feline thief team up with Batwoman for the fight of her nine lives

- Greg Weisman

PREPARE FOR THE fur to fly in Catwoman: Hunted. The new animated DC film finds Batman’s most cunning adversary pulling off her latest caper: stealing a priceless jewel. However, when the escapade goes awry, it pits the notorious cat burglar against a cadre of villains and Interpol.

“I wanted to tell this heist film that revealed something deeper underneath,” screenwriter Greg Weisman tells Red Alert. “Catwoman seems to be all charm and all about the fun of the heist. But there’s an underlying current. She has an agenda, which goes beyond theft for wealth. She has reasons for what she’s doing that are real and serious and deep, but you would never know it. Once in a while, the truth seeps out, but it’s nothing that she reveals easily.

“She is still, first and foremost, a thief,” he continues. “There’s an appeal to that. There are a hundred ways to solve a problem, and she is going to choose a certain way to do it. She’s not a murderer. She cares about people – in particular, the vulnerable. I don’t want to whitewash her into, ‘She’s a hero now, but she’s still a thief’. But it’s hard not to be sympathetic when the people you’re stealing from are the mob.”

As Catwoman goes from hunter to hunted, a reluctant ally steps in to aid her… Batwoman. On one level, the two women stand as complete opposites. Catwoman is “flippant, to a degree that is borderline nuts. Batwoman is straightforward, serious and all about getting the job done,” says Weisman. Below the surface, however, there are similarities.