Anton Furst's Batmobile

The director of 1989’s Batman, Tim Burton, once told Cinfex Magazine that, at the time, creating the Batmobile was his toughest challenge. We can see why—but man did he nail it! Tim Burton’s Batmobile is the most popular, best representation of the Batmobile, perhaps ever. Burton worked closely with stylist Anton Furst to produce the fantastical car’s stunning design.

“Even after the drawing was done, though,” Burton said, “we still were not sure how it would go over in the film. It wasn’t until we saw it in rushes that we knew it was right.” As Furst explained, “To me, the Batmobile was a pure piece of expressionism. I tried to give it that ‘knight in armor’ look, taking elements of the speed machines from the Utah Salt Flats, the Corvette Stingrays of the ‘50s, and combining those elements with jet aircraft components to create one cohesive machine.”

Well, Furst ended up winning an Oscar for his design of Gotham City, and we think he did a pretty swell job on Burton’s Batmobile, too. Most fans would agree that this Batmobile was a smashing success. It’s been the most popular Batmobile ever since its release in the 1989 film, introducing us to a darker, edgier Batman that has never really gone away.

If anything, its successors took inspiration from the Burton Batmobile, and you can see glimpses and iterations of it in every Batmobile that has succeeded it.

I hope you love it as much as I do :)

MetaZeeMan

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