Dalton and Keating

Q and MQ and M IrelandPosts: 171MI6 Agent
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 :)

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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,901Chief of Staff
    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.
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  • Q and MQ and M IrelandPosts: 171MI6 Agent
    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 PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent
    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.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,901Chief of Staff
    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. . . :#
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    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 PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent
    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?"
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
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