If you start a conversation about iconic movie/TV cars, the likes of KITT or General Lee will immediately come up. However, neither of the two has endured as long a career as the iconic Batmobile.
Don’t believe us? Check out Warner Bros’ Batmobile Documentary, which the studio streamed live on YouTube earlier this week. You get behind-the-scenes footage, as well as a close look at the design process and everything that went into building these cars.
Going by popularity alone, WB singled out five designs, starting with the Batman: The Movie (1966) car, the one from the Adam West show.
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It was based on a 1955 Lincoln Futura and featured a jet black exterior with red trim, rocket blaster at the back and weird Jetsons-like dome windows. Strangely enough, this design withstood the test of time up until the late 1980s when Tim Burton signed on to do a couple of Batman films.
Burton’s take on the matter makes for arguably the quintessential Batmobile. This design was used in Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), and influenced the car from Batman: The Animated Series too, which was another very popular concept.
This is the Dark Knight’s latest ride from the upcoming film ‘The Batman’
Then you’ve got the Batman Forever (1995) car, which never really caught on in popularity – not even as much as Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight’s (2008) so-called Tumbler, which was more of a military-grade vehicle. The same can be said for Batman v Superman’s Batmobile, although the Documentary only went as far as Nolan’s films.
As for the latest live-action Batmobile from The Batman, we’ll have to wait for the movie to come out (in 2021, hopefully) in order to pass judgement. From what we can tell though, it will at least look more like a car again, as opposed to a tank.