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First Catwoman screenplay draft included tiger fights, melting faces, and rat army carrying bubonic plague

EW has obtained an initial bonkers draft of the 'Catwoman' screenplay, which includes a tiger fight scene, a melting face, and an army of rats carrying the plague.

That and, uh, a fight scene involving a tiger, a villain's latex face melting off, and a climax that saw Catwoman corralling her city's kitty population to ward off an army of rats carrying the bubonic plague. It follows a young woman, Patience (Berry), who works for a cosmetics brand that's about to unveil a poison face cream, is murdered and revived as Catwoman by a mystic feline collective, falls for police investigator Tom Lone ( Benjamin Bratt), and clashes with Laurel ( Sharon Stone), the narcissistic supermodel spouse of her company’s conniving CEO. "It lost a lot of its social context [by the time of production], which is what had been appealing from the outset for me," Brancato recalls, adding that the finished version "doesn’t have the sharpness of how that beauty culture is toxic for its victims."

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