Michael Keaton steadfastly refused and was replaced by Val Kilmer in "Batman Forever" (1995). Keaton remained active during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films, including "Pacific Heights", "One Good Cop", "My Life" and the star-studded Shakespearean story "Much Ado About Nothing". He starred in "The Paper" and "Multiplicity", and twice in the same role, that of Elmore Leonard character Agent Ray Nicolette, in the films "Jackie Brown" and "Out of Sight". He made the family holiday movie "Jack Frost" and the thriller "Desperate Measures". Keaton starred as a political candidate's speechwriter in 1994's "Speechless". In the early 2000s, Keaton
Val Kilmer "The Prince of Egypt". Finally in 2004, Kilmer appeared in an episode of "Entourage", where he played a Sherpa whose primary source of income was the growing, harvesting and distributing high-quality cannabis, all under a guise of metaphysical insights. Kilmer was in negotiations with Richard Dutcher (a leading director of Mormon-related films) to play the lead role in a film entitled "Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith", although the project never materialized. Kilmer performed in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" on the London stage from June to September 2005. In 2005, he co-starred with Robert Downey, Jr. in the action-comedy