Keaton vs Kilmer... [PIC]

Michael Keaton and director Tim Burton combined in the first "Batman" and "Batman Returns" movies creating the dark vision of the original comic book narrative. When they came to Keaton to reprise the character once again with the script for "Batman Forever" to be directed by Joel Schumacher, He flatly refused. To him, it was a much lighter, commercial and almost campy script that he felt wasn't true to the genre. Enter Val Kilmer along with the over the top mugging of Jim Carrey as "the Riddler" and Tommy Lee Jones as "Two Face". The resulting movie, however was a smashing success bringing in $336 million on a $100 million budget making it the top grossing movie of 1995. The two Batmobile designs reflected the script with Keaton's ride being a no frills battle ready look with relatively subtle bat-like tail fins the only styling cue that identified the crime fighting driver. It eliminated the conventional bat head gracing the nose replaced with a jet turbine intake. Kilmer's Batmobile had a skeletal appearance with a wide chromed toothy grin, a body of open fretwork and 3 wildly over the top tail fins. Both reflected the tone of their respective movies.