Halle Berry has said that she would like to helm a remake of Catwoman.

Berry featured as the titular crime-fighting (kind of) persona in the 2004 box office flop Catwoman, in which she discovered a diabolical conspiracy within a cosmetics corporation managed by Sharon Stone’s wicked Laurel Hedare. During an interview with Jake’s Takes on her directorial debut, Bruised, the actress was asked what film she would like to remake now that she knows what she knows as a filmmaker. Berry responded, without hesitation and with a grin, that Catwoman would be a great picture for her to revisit as a director.

“I would love to direct [a] Catwoman [remake],” Berry told Jake’s Takes. “If I can get ahold of that now, knowing what I know, having had this experience, and reimagine that world the way I reimagined this story. Bruised was written for a white Irish Catholic 25 year old girl, and I got to reimagine it. I wish I could go back and reimagine Catwoman and redo that. Have a redo on that, now knowing what I know [about directing].”

Catwoman was critically panned when it was released almost two decades ago (it has a 9 percent rating on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes), but Berry believes she can improve on it today.

Berry went on to say of her concept for the upcoming picture, “I would have Catwoman saving the world like most male superheroes do, and not just saving women from their faces cracking off.”

“I would make the stakes a lot higher, and I think make it more inclusive of both men and women.”

In the past, the Oscar winner has confessed that she knew Catwoman was troublesome even while working on it. In September 2020, Berry said, “The story didn’t feel quite right. I remember having that argument: ‘Why can’t Catwoman save the world like Batman and Superman do? Why is she just saving women from a face cream that cracks their face off?’ But I was just the actor for hire. I wasn’t the director. I had very little say over that.”

The film took on a life of its own, straying from much of the heroine’s comic book origins. The next time we saw Selina Kyle as Catwoman on film was in 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, when Anne Hathaway wore the cat-suit as a well-trained cat burglar attempting to start a new life and put her old habits behind. Our most recent encounter with the character was in The Lego Batman Movie, when she played Batman’s hot and cold antagonist and love interest. We will soon witness a fresh version of the heroine, since Zo Kravitz will play her in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, opposite Robert Pattinson.

The actress previously joked that her Catwoman character deserved a second chance.

“Each story builds on the next. It’s like that old saying goes: behind every Black Panther is a great Black Catwoman!” she said while presenting an award at the 2018 GLAAD Media Awards. “You know, I’ve gotten a really bad rap for this role, and I think Catwoman deserves another god—- chance, don’t you?”

Bruised premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and will be available on Netflix on November 24.

Halle Berry spoke up earlier this year about an incident that left her with damaged ribs while filming Bruised.

Berry told Entertainment Weekly, “When you break something, it calcifies and it’s stronger. You don’t usually break the same bones twice.”

“[It was] kind of a crazy injury,” the stunt coordinator for the film told Entertainment Weekly. “But that was just her intensity… Halle’s a special case. I’ve worked with tons of actors, and almost none of them have that kind of work ethic.”

While much remains unknown about the high-flying antihero and her future role in The Batman, we can only hope that Berry is granted the rights to bring her unique and forward-thinking concepts to the film and avoid the flop that was Catwoman.