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Judd: The Cat's Meow on Broadway
Ashley Judd is trading in one feline role for another.
Scratching an opportunity to play everyone's favorite sex kitten, Catwoman, on the big screen, the bankable actress will instead make her Broadway debut next fall playing Maggie in a revival of Tennessee Williams' classic stage play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, reports Daily Variety.
Judd decided to drop out of the Warner Bros. Batman spinoff upon learning that stage producer Bill Kenwright and director Anthony Page planned to take their highly acclaimed London revival of Tin Roof across the Atlantic to the Great White Way.
Executives at Warner Bros. thought Judd had the purr-fect pedigree to don the tight-fitting dominatrix-like leather outfit first made famous by Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's Batman Returns, the darkly stylish second installment in the popular franchise.
And the thespian was reportedly ready to prowl. But when word hit the streets of Gotham that the feisty role of Maggie in Tin Roof might be available, Judd pounced and her agents signed the play deal.
Her decision to bolt was made easy in part by Warners, which delayed the project for two years while it commissioned a script.
Unfortunately for the studio, right after Judd committed to Tin Roof, Warner Bros. received a solid rewrite on the John Rogers Catwoman script from writing partners Mike Ferris and John Brancato, who also had a hand in penning the upcoming Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
As a result, the studio slated Catwoman to start filming as early as this summer and as late as the fall.
Now that Judd--who scored boffo box office playing tough female roles in such taut suspense melodramas as Double Jeopardy, High Crimes, and Kiss the Girls--has opted for a different sort of feline, the studio must look elsewhere for someone charming and catty enough to turn Batman's supporting villain into a star in her own right.
The studio reportedly has its sights set on Nicole Kidman, hot off her Oscar nomination for her role in art-house hit The Hours. Ironically, the former Mrs. Tom Cruise has already spent time in Gotham as the object of Bruce Wayne's affection in director Joel Schumacher's campy Batman Forever, the third movie in the Caped Crusader series.
No word on whether Kidman has accepted the part.
Producers of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, meanwhile, are rumored to be eyeing actor Mark Ruffalo (You Can Count on Me) for the role of Brick. While Ned Beatty, who scored rave reviews playing Big Daddy in London, is considering reprising his role for the Broadway run.
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