![]() ![]() It’s been restored to its Batmobile spec more recently but it’s the Barris-designed one we remember, its association with comic-inspired screen action remembered with affection but also hugely influential. There was actually an Oldsmobile-based Batmobile built a few years previously by another customiser, who eventually painted it silver and used it as his daily. We won't try to work this onto a Ford chassis." And you couldn't have.Created by custom car legend George Barris, the now iconic Batmobile that featured in the Adam West TV series – and film of the same era – was famously a repurposed 50s Lincoln Futura concept car he bought for a dollar and had lying around with hopes of one day finding a use for it. That fender looks gigantic." TFX said, "We'll build everything from scratch. Drawing a car is one thing, but it doesn't ever really look like that. ![]() As it becomes more 3D, you go back in and keep redesigning. It's amazing how much the design of that morphs. From our drawings, we went in to doing little 3D clay and shaping that. We hired this fabulous team of builders, this young team who had never done a movie before, Trans-FX. It was exciting that this strange mind briefly touched upon us, but it didn't work out. ![]() He had these insane, fabulous, weird scribbles that were very like Alien. We had early discussions with Giger about the Batmobile. In this 2015 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Batman Forever's production designer Barbara Ling talked about those early days of working with Giger: ![]() Honestly, can you imagine Val Kilmer's Batman cruising through the streets of Gotham City in this beast? Or Kilmer saying the line "Chicks dig the car" about this ridiculous monstrosity? Seeing images like this resurface five years after Giger's death are a reminder that there's never been anyone else like him. ![]()
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