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Liz Hand wrote the novelization of the film Catwoman, a notoriously bad film. The screenplay was poor, and she added several cat fables to the story to increase the volume of content. One of these fables was later published in a short story anthology.
I won't say that the novelization of Catwoman is my finest moment, but it was a paycheck.
— Episode: Mini-Stories: Volume 9
Episode: Mini-Stories: Volume 9
Liz Hand wrote the novelization of the film Catwoman, a notoriously bad film. The screenplay was poor, and she added several cat fables to the story to increase the volume of content. One of these fables was later published in a short story anthology.
I won't say that the novelization of Catwoman is my finest moment, but it was a paycheck.
So what I ended up doing, there was a character in the book, in the screenplay rather. It was a supporting character who was like a renowned catologist, a supposed anthropologist archaeologist who specialized in cats.
And so what I thought was like, okay, I know what I can do, even though this is totally out of line. I'm just going to do it anyway. So I wrote three or four little cat, I made up three or four little cat fables or fairy tales.
And actually one of these folktales that Liz wrote turned out so well that she managed to get it published in a couple of short story anthologies, including this one anthology of stories about cats where it's a story by Stephen King, a story by George R.R. Martin, and then also her short story that was originally in the Catwoman novelization.