Evolution of Batmobile | History of Batmobile. - Super Spoilers

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Evolution of Batmobile | History of Batmobile.


The Batmobile first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May, 1939), where it was depicted as an ordinary-looking, red car. Housed in the Batcave.The look of the Batmobile has varied over time to time.In this article we will talk about only live action batmobile.


1. Batman (1943 Serial)

In the 1943 serial film Batman, a black 1939 Cadillac Series 61 convertible was used by Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, as well as their secret identities Batman and Robin.

2. Batman and Robin (1949 serial)

 In Batman and Robin, the 1949 successor to the original serial, the duo drive around in a 1949 Mercury.

3 .Batman (1960s film/TV series)

 What became the iconic Batmobile used in the 1966–1968 live action television show and its film adaptation was a customized vehicle that originated as a one-off 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car, created by Ford Motor Company lead stylists Bill Schmidt, Doug Poole Sr., and John Najjar and their design team at the Lincoln Styling Department. In 1954, the Futura prototype was built entirely by hand by the Ghia Body Works in Turin, Italy, at a reported cost of US$250,000—the equivalent of approximately US$2 million in 2009.[40] It made its debut in pearlescent Frost-Blue white paint on 8 January 1955 at the Chicago Auto Show.[41] In 1959, sporting a fresh red paint job, the Futura was featured in the film It Started with a Kiss, starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford.


Features
This Batmobile's gadgets include 
  • a nose-mounted aluminum Cable Cutter Blade.
  • Bat Ray Projector.
  • Detect-a-scope, Batscope, Bat Eye Switch.
  • Police Band Cut-In Switch.
  • Automatic Tire Inflation Device.
  • radio linked to the main Batcomputer in the Batcave.
  • Emergency Bat Turn Lever, Anti-Fire Activator, Bat Smoke, Bat Photoscope, and many other Bat gadgets.

4. Batman (1989) / Batman Return

 Tim Burton's live-action films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) presented a different version of the Batmobile, which reflected those films' Art Deco version of Gotham City, both of which were designed by Anton Furst.[59][60] It was long, low and sleek, and was built on a Chevrolet Impala chassis. The Tim Burton Batmobile is now housed at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.

Features
This Batmobile's gadgets include 
  • Spherical bombs could be deployed from its sides.
  • Two M1919 Browning machine guns were hidden behind flaps in each fender.  
  • Its grappling hook, once hooked on a structure, serves as an anchor to allow the batmobile to make an extremely sharp turn at high speed.
  • chassis-mounted shinbreakers, oil slick dispensers and smoke emitters.  

5. Batman Forever (1995)

As the Batman films were handed over to director Joel Schumacher from Tim Burton, the design for the Batmobile updated. Decorative lighting was added to the vehicle's rims, sides and front edge, and the wing-shaped fins reached further into the air. The Batman Forever Batmobile's ability to drive up walls was displayed as Batman eludes a dead-end provided by Two-Face and his henchmen. Later in the film, Dick Grayson takes the Batmobile for a joy ride without Batman's permission.

Features
This Batmobile's gadgets include 
  • being able to rotate its wheels through 90 degrees so that it could move in a perpendicular direction.
  • a grappling hook allowing the Batmobile to drive up walls.
  • perform large jumps from surface to surface during chases across Gotham City.
  • The bat-emblem on the hubcaps was a counter-rotating gear that transferred into a stationary point.  
  • system diagnostics display, and custom gauge cluster.

6. Batman and Robin (1997)

Joel Schumacher gave a different and advance look of batmobile in Batman and Robin (1997). In Batman & Robin, the aerodynamic chassis design and "T" axis wheelbase provided the Batmobile counterbalance gyrometric stability, allowing for high velocity 90-degree turns at speeds greater than 70 mph without losing momentum. Initial plans had the Batmobile being able to transform into the "Bathammer" vehicle seen in this film, but were abandoned. 

Features
This Batmobile's gadgets include 
  • displays were much more involved with this car, however, with red, orange, yellow, and blue lights, as well as special pulsating lights in the counter-rotating turbine intake.
  • A bat mask was incorporated onto the nose of the car.
  • weaponry and gadgets is controlled by an onboard voice-activated computer.
  • equipped with dual-mount, subcarriage rocket launchers, front and rear grappling hooks.

7. The Dark Knight Trilogy(2005,2008,2012)

Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Batman films owes much to the tank-like vehicle from Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns; it has a more 'workhorse' appearance than the sleek automobiles seen in previous incarnations and does not have a front axle. While the films never refer to the vehicle as the "Batmobile", it is still referred to as such in the scripts. The film's production designer described the machine as a cross between a Lamborghini and a tank.  

Features
This Batmobile's gadgets include 
  • Rear flaps to assist brakes
  • Dual front autocannons
  • Rocket launcher
  • Landing hook to Sprung landing stabilization
  • Integrated fire-extinguishing system
  • Integrated safety connection to gasoline control
  • Jet engine (with afterburners) on back of car for quick boosts/"rampless" jumps
  • Stealth mode avoids detection using a variety of stealth technologies that reduce reflection/emission of radar, infrared, visible light, radio-frequency (RF) spectrum.

8. DC Universe(BvS , Suicide Squad, Justice League)

 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Batmobile combined inspiration from both the sleek, streamlined design of classic Batmobiles and the high-suspension, military build from the more recent Tumbler from The Dark Knight Trilogy. They were also inspired by the 1989 Batmobile.Designed by production designer Patrick Tatopoulos and Dennis McCarthy.
This Batmobile appears in a flashback for Suicide Squad . In 2017 Justice League movie this Batmobile again appears with some little modifications.
                                                                                                                                              Reference
                                                                                                            Wikipedia the free encyclopedia.
                                                                                                 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batmobile

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