NEW YORK -- Oscar winner Halle Berry is set to play the felonious feline in Catwoman later this year, Warner Bros. said yesterday.

Berry has already shown her action chops since her Oscar-winning performance in Monster's Ball. She played James Bond's sexy partner Jinx in Die Another Day and reprised the superhero character Storm in X2, the X-Men sequel due out May 2 from 20th Century Fox.

She's about to star in the Joel Silver-produced Warner Bros. film Gothika with Robert Downey Jr.

Catwoman has been considered a dream project for actresses since Michelle Pfeiffer originated the sexy but loopy character in the Tim Burton-directed Batman Returns. That pair tried a spinoff that stalled.

While no deal has been made, Berry's expected to get her claws into the part quickly. She'd be the second black woman to play Catwoman, as Eartha Kitt did in the 1960s Batman TV series. The film was scripted by John Rogers and rewritten by Mike Ferris and John Brancato.

-- SUN Media


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