Dalton and Keating

Q and M

just looking at it recently, found it interesting how they portrayed bond and batman for 2movies, were supposed to do a 3rd each, but left the respective series after various breakdowns. also it happened around the same time, early nineties. anyone have any thoughts. just throwing this one out there

Hardyboy

Um, that's Keaton, not Keating. And I don't know that there were a lot of "breakdowns" in getting the third Batman movie out. . .Tim Burton decided early on he wouldn't direct it, and when Keaton saw how Joel Schumacher would be handling things, he quickly jumped ship. The Bond "breakdown" was far more involved and went over a longer period of time.

Q and M

Sorry about the name, but you would have to say there are similarities with dalton and keaton, granted the batman breakdown was not as drawn out

Napoleon Plural

Blimey, we've had this thread before 'n' all! I even recall Hardyboy pointing out that both actors had a receding hairline in only their second movie.

Hardyboy

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Blimey, we've had this thread before 'n' all! I even recall Hardyboy pointing out that both actors had a receding hairline in only their second movie.

Your memory is clearly sharper than mine. . .

Napoleon Plural

Refreshing HB's memory

Alex

When I think of Michael Keaton it's definitely NOT Batman which first comes to mind.

To me, he will always be immortalised as Bill Blazejowski, the awesomely annoying co-worker of Henry Winkler in Night Shift.

Constantly playing Jumping Jack Flash and attempting to persuade the anti-Fonzie and Cheers waitress turned hooker Shelley Long to open a prostitution ring under cover of a city morgue.

Forget Bruce Wayne. That's the greatest, role, ever.

He was fun in Mr. Mom, Gung Ho and Beetlejuice. All pre Batman. (The less said about Johnny Dangerously, the better)

Napoleon Plural

Diane Keating was considered for a role in The Living Daylights, but that was then Dalton's part was written more as a Woody Allen type character. "What, you want me to kill Pushkin? Couldn't we just take him in and rehabilitate him?"