Name: Jon Peters on Producing Batman, Casting Michael Keaton, and Jack Nicholson
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jon Peters on Producing Batman, Casting Michael Keaton, and Jack Nicholson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jon Peters on Producing Batman, Casting Michael Keaton, and Jack Nicholson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-15. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience do you have a favorite at all the movies you've done
well I like Batman because it was one that was it broke nobody had any done
anything like that before and I had a big affair with Kim Basinger over there
and we fell in love and I hired all UFC fighters to fight my stuff there's no
such thing as you see if I but those martial arts guys oh yeah hit guys from
the tongue sword guys guys went to the hospital they got cut because I pushed
the limit on the damn thing and we shot it on the table with the fight
sequences
with the with the with the way we shot it everything that we did it may not
look
like it today but in those days we Tim Burton was gonna use a six inch knife I
know we got the blade and we got the guys and they didn't think so Michael Keaton
was a great fucking baby yes he was a great fuck the best because she's the
best actor in the world is one of the top five actresses ever lived he's look
at
his career look what he does look what he did on star on now and on and quite
lose
or whatever it is on Vicodin or whatever it is that three-hour pieces rib you
know
and I'm sure he's in the program I would have to guess I know he did because I
hired him out of a movie called clean and sober and I saw in his eyes he could
fight
because as a kid I got in so many fights but I would read your eyes before I'd
even
make a move if I saw something I didn't like I probably figure a way to get out
of
it hmm you know and that's how I went from Hollywood to the chairman of Sony to
biotech companies to this to that to the UFC maybe it would have been great
because I
have good instincts and I have I kind of have like ordinary taste let's say did
people resist they've resisted Michael Keaton as Batman and there's nobody
wanted
them yeah they didn't like that idea that he was a stand-up comic yeah they
wanted a six-foot-three guy to come in with the big muscles right no look in
his
eyes he's a killer he'll stab you five times in the neck before you even know
what
happened is he your favorite Batman yeah Christian Bale's a pretty fucking good
Batman too brilliant he was really those two those two guys that that guy's
willing to
do things that most people are not willing to do like he's willing to get fat
he's
willing to like almost die of starvation that's how they have a career yeah it's
just like if you watch that machinist which is not the best movie but what's
interesting about the movie is just Christian Bale the fact that he's
basically a skeleton yeah he like a can of tuna and apple is Batman yeah jacked
I
know you have to be crazy you have to be crazy to be jack Nicholson is my good
friend and he's crazy as a loon but has to be it but and a brilliant guy and
thank
God he kind of retired like ten years ago watch Chinatown yeah I like that guy
of
course he's crazy how else could he be that you can't I'm standing on a corner
La Cienega in Santa Monica and with my wife at the time Leslie Ann Warren she's
pregnant with my son this goes back 50 years ago maybe whatever it was four
guys
pulled by in the car and they go Cinderella sucks and they flip it off now
I'm from the valley so I said just wait she played Cinderella on television
that was
her thing so I said wait here I jumped in my car and I chase these guys down
the
street I caught him at a signal I came up next one about the enemies no no no I'm
interacting class men we're all actors that was a joke whatever it is many
years
later I do which is a beast book and we're going to meet Jack Nicholson and as
I
walk in he looks at me says hey Cinderella sucks
yeah it was him yes that's hilarious yes holy shit yes yes yes yes yes oh my
god that's
hilarious yeah no I've got you almost beat up Jack Nicholson yeah no but I mean
that's hilarious that
it's him all those years later yeah I was defending what I thought was my that's
my
great lady how fucking good is he in the shining yeah no he's I watched that
again recently too
God he's a he's a he's a genius yeah there's a few of those guys that like they
they if you
ever seen the video I'm sure you have there's a video of him warming up for his
scene where
he goes through the bathroom door with the hatchet yeah I saw it yeah and he's
just
like jumping around the room again so fired up my god damn he never knew how to
fight but he's a tough
guy yeah well he'll fight if he has to he was an extraordinary big strong legs
talent yeah
there's there's people that just like captivate a story