BATMAN - KEATON + DOWNEY JR ACCEPT HUGE PAY CUT FOR BASEBALL FILM

BATMAN star MICHAEL KEATON and ROBERT DOWNEY JR turned their backs on big salaries to earn $100-a-day on a new baseball movie - because they loved the script. GAME 6, which surrounds the fabled sixth game of the 1986 World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox, was shot in Manhattan, New York for just $1 million (GBP588,000). Based on a screenplay by novelist DON DELILLO, baseball fans Downey Jr and Keaton accepted minimum acting wage just to appear in the film, directed by MICHAEL HOFFMAN. Keaton says, "It's so hard to get anything as well written or as challenging, or a cast or director this good, so I just had to do it. It kind of haunted me." The WHITE NOISE star admits there was no star treatment on the set - the cast had to fend for themselves. He explains, "I know the public restrooms in New York now because I'd use them to make sure my hair was combed and my wardrobe was on."