We won't try to work this onto a Ford chassis." And you couldn't have. 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. Movie audiences will need to be able to recognize it as such or it just looks out of place. Giger was contacted in 1994 to design a Batmobile for Batman Forver. MOVIE URBAN LEGEND: Did famed Alien designer H.R. Giger actually came up with a radical new look for the Dark Knights ride for Batman Forever. 2.) It's not even barely recognizable as the Batmobile, it's just not recognizable as such at all. Published This week Brian Cronin heads to the Batmobile to discover whether famed Alien designer H.R. I don't see how this could be made to be mechanically sound. ![]() From our drawings, we went in to doing little 3D clay and shaping that. 1.) The Batmobile was more than just a movie prop it needed to be a functioning, drivable car. 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: Giger was contacted in 1994 to design a Batmobile for Batman Forver. ![]() 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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