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00:00Hi everybody, Jeff Dunham again at Dunham Family Motors along with my buddy P-Nut.
00:04No, no, I am that nut.
00:06Bad Nut?
00:06Wait, it's no, I'm that nut.
00:09And why are you dressed like this?
00:10To fight the crime of high car prices.
00:13This next car wasn't built to be bought.
00:16It didn't come from Detroit, Germany, or Japan.
00:19It came from the pages of a comic book.
00:22Its sole mission?
00:23Strike fear into the hearts of criminals.
00:26Its long, wow, arm to the teeth.
00:28It's dark as night and driven by, well, this dude.
00:34If you're looking to get yourself into something with no cup holders, drinks jet fuel for breakfast,
00:39and has some accessories that will likely result in federal charges, I might know a guy.
00:44And the next baby, a Batmobile?
00:47No, no, it's the Bat Nutmobile.
00:52Throughout time, humanity has been obsessed with getting places using anything but their own two feet.
00:57We've tried all kinds of things.
01:01Until finally, the greatest invention of all time.
01:05The automobile.
01:07Moron!
01:08These are the cars that drove us.
01:13Comic legends Bob Kane and Bill Finger gave Bruce Wayne a nightlife in 1939.
01:19And in the years since making the leap from page to screen, there have been many different thoughts.
01:26Well, Batmen.
01:27Lewis, Adam, Val, George, Kevin, Christian, Ben, Robert, and of course, Michael.
01:36I'm Batman.
01:37But some things...
01:38Flash the bat signal.
01:40...have never changed.
01:41Batman has always been the Batsuit and the Batmobile.
01:47Arguably the most iconic vehicle in all of pop culture.
01:52And much like the man steering it, we've seen a bunch of different executions of the Batmobile,
01:58each encompassing a bit of the new and a bit of the old.
02:01But in 1989...
02:02When Tim Burton's Batmobile showed up...
02:06Whoa!
02:08I mean, it took it to a new level.
02:11A level of baditude...
02:14...that ranks the 89 Batmobile as quite possibly the most iconic of them all.
02:20The Batmobile was the star of the picture.
02:22And like any superstar superhero, the Batmobile's origin story is one of drama.
02:28They said he's crashed the car.
02:29I said no.
02:30Suspense and redemption.
02:32And the whole audience burst into applause.
02:35Though, thankfully, no dead parents are involved.
02:39But before this Batmobile could turn heads in 1989,
02:43a very different one would have to turn pages in 1939.
02:48When the first Batman comic book came out, Batman had a Batmobile.
02:53Well, sort of.
02:54They didn't call it a Batmobile.
02:56It was just a red sedan.
02:59Not exactly a name that strikes fear in the hearts of criminals.
03:03But a red sedan by any other name would actually be way cooler.
03:07And so, in Detective Comics, issue 48, the name Batmobile was born.
03:12But why stop there?
03:14They started changing the look of it to blue and black.
03:18And they put a bat symbol in the front of it.
03:21And they just made this iconic vehicle, arguably the most iconic vehicle in all of pop culture.
03:31And just in time, because when Batman made his big screen debut in this 1943 serial...
03:37Let's go.
03:38...the Batmobile was ready for its Hollywood green light.
03:41Wait a minute.
03:41Is that the red sedan?
03:43Sorry, kids.
03:44The first Batmobile that was used on film was a 39 Cadillac convertible.
03:49If Bruce Wayne was driving it, the top was down.
03:52Alpha, drive into that alley and put the top up.
03:54If Batman was driving it, the top was up.
03:57How sneaky.
03:58Well, until you get out of the car.
04:00Look out, Batman.
04:01They can see you.
04:01That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever...
04:04Second most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
04:06You are Superman, aren't you?
04:08Luckily, after a couple of decades, things would get far less ridiculous.
04:19Holy sardine!
04:20Well, at least from an automotive perspective.
04:25But by 1960s standards, the Batmobile was old technology.
04:31It was made from something called a Lincoln Futura.
04:33A one-of-a-kind Ford concept car from 1955.
04:37Really cool looking.
04:38Hollywood auto fabricator George Barris thought so.
04:41He bought it from Ford for a dollar.
04:43What a steal.
04:45And when Barris got the gig...
04:46He realized they didn't have enough time to do this properly.
04:49Time is getting short.
04:51So he looked around at what he had and thought, you know what?
04:54I can take the Futura and use this as the foundation.
04:58And with a fair amount of moderate tweaking, television and superhero history was made.
05:04Hey, it's the Batmobile!
05:05That show was part of my childhood.
05:08So that was my first Batmobile.
05:10Complete with Batman and Robin.
05:12And for the next two decades...
05:15Fortunately, old friend, Zare is open 24 hours until Christmas.
05:18George Barris' was the only on-screen Batmobile.
05:22There's some cartoon versions.
05:24Well, sure, for the little guys.
05:26But other than that...
05:29Nothing.
05:30Cut to the mid to late 80s, and we find out they're making a Batman movie.
05:36We're dying to find out how they're going to execute the Batmobile.
05:39And in 1988, concept designer Julian Caldo was one of the few people qualified to answer that question.
05:46But at this point, he was wrestling with his own more personal uncertainties.
05:50And I met Anton first on a movie called High Spirits, where I was doing some of the makeup.
05:55I showed him a folio of the sketches that I'd been doing and said,
06:00I really want to get to the art department.
06:01Brash, confident.
06:03This kid knew exactly what he was doing.
06:05And then it kind of hit me that I didn't really know what I was doing.
06:08Well, he was still brash and confident.
06:10He'd figure it out.
06:11I was kind of learning on the job.
06:13A job that entailed bringing Anton and director Tim Burton's vision of Gotham City to life.
06:19So I thought they were their perfect gelling of crazy minds to come up with the way that that whole
06:23thing looked.
06:24A gothic metropolis of epic scale and massive proportion.
06:29But I didn't really understand scale, proportion, etc.
06:33Be patient.
06:34He's learning on the job.
06:36And so the art department threw this rookie a softball assignment.
06:40They got me working on the Batmobile because I didn't understand stuff about architecture.
06:45The seasoned vets would handle the gargoyles and flying buttresses while they tossed...
06:50The most iconic vehicle in all of pop culture.
06:54To the new guy, which was certainly a choice.
06:58Having to invent a beautiful Batmobile while holding in the history of that car, the history of the aesthetics of
07:05Batman.
07:05It is a really, really difficult charge.
07:10Yeah, no pressure.
07:11Let me think.
07:14First time concept artist Julian Caldo was under pressure to design the Batmobile to top all Batmobiles.
07:21Principled photography was four short months away.
07:24And so Julian leapt into action.
07:27I was starting to do little sketches of the sporty 50s road car, a muscle car with fins that was
07:34sort of similar in vibe to the TV show.
07:37But very soon I realized that that wasn't going to work.
07:40Because this wasn't your father's Batman.
07:43Precisely.
07:44It was Tim Burton's, which means a certain approach would be necessary.
07:50Anton said, we're not doing a car specifically, we're doing sort of a brutal statement.
07:56Oh no.
07:57Something that looked quite menacing.
08:00The concept inspired Julian to think outside the box.
08:03Or the Batbox.
08:05There's no need for this thing even to be road worthy.
08:08So that's when I got into my mind the idea of these land speed record cars.
08:13Specifically the Green Monster.
08:15To have this enormous intake at the front with this point.
08:19I mentioned this to Anton and he was very excited by that idea.
08:23Anton was so taken with the intake that it was taken in to the Batmobile design.
08:28So I had this big rocket going down the center of the car.
08:34That feels right.
08:35That is like, that's what Batman should have.
08:37And it was like a piece of art.
08:39And soon it was time for Julian to present his art to Anton and Tim for approval.
08:44Tim, when he saw a drawing that he liked, he had a little giggle.
08:48And when you heard that giggle, you knew that you were on the right path.
08:52And when Tim saw Julian's drawing, there was no giggle.
08:56And Julian learned about rejection on the job.
08:59I had two little jet cockpits either side of this rocket engine.
09:03And Tim said, I've got dialogue between Vicki Vale and Batman.
09:09Where are we going?
09:10They won't be able to hear each other.
09:12And I said something stupid like, what about they have walkie-talkies?
09:16Where are we going?
09:17So that was rejected pretty quickly.
09:19Undeterred, Julian went back to the drawing board.
09:22And this time, I was taking stuff from all kinds of different decades.
09:27The grills either side of the car were taken from Ferrari Testarossa.
09:32I had these little gills at the front.
09:34And they were from a Corvette Stingray,
09:36which also informed the back of the Batmobile,
09:38melded with a Volkswagen Beetle.
09:42Finally, I based the cockpit on the X-15 experimental aircraft
09:46that Neil Armstrong was flying in before he went into space.
09:50And after numerous small steps,
09:52Julian's design was one giant leap from where it had begun.
09:56And this time,
09:58the giggler struck.
10:00The Batmobile had arrived.
10:02Everybody loved it.
10:04But the following week, we sat and looked at the sketch,
10:07and someone said, how does anybody get into this car?
10:10Great question.
10:10And one that Julian, as the designer, should be able to answer.
10:14I hadn't really even thought about doors.
10:16Maybe we have gull-wing doors coming up at either side.
10:20Uh, seen it before.
10:21Probably don't want to go back to that.
10:23Or maybe the whole cockpit comes up like a jet.
10:26Yeah, that too.
10:27You could probably top that.
10:29It was actually Nigel Phelps.
10:31A production designer working on Gotham City.
10:34Who said, why not slide the whole thing down the bonnet and just jump in?
10:39That felt very elegant.
10:41And with that, it looked like the Batmobile was finally cruising down Easy Street.
10:46Excuse me.
10:47Oh, apparently special effects supervisor John Evans would like to have a word.
10:51Special effects is a problem with time and money.
10:56Because now John and his team had to build a working Batmobile.
10:59No, we had to get two, not one built.
11:02Two working Batmobiles.
11:04And we had to have it in ten weeks.
11:06Yeah, about that.
11:07That's not only not enough time, that's an absurdly small amount of time.
11:11I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
11:13Neither would Warner Brothers.
11:14So they wished it on John Evans instead.
11:16A special effects man's job is not easy.
11:20With an almost laughable deadline...
11:23...special effects supervisor John Evans and his team of craftsmen
11:27were rolling up their sleeves to build two working Batmobiles.
11:30We really didn't have the time to build our own chassis.
11:34A solution to chassis...
11:36There was a kind of an accident that the car was as long as it was.
11:41Because, as you'll remember...
11:42I didn't really understand scale, proportion, etc.
11:46So I was not going out of the art department with a tape measure
11:50and looking at the average size of a car.
11:52Basically, he was bat-winging it.
11:54Um, but...
11:56John and his special effects team were there to pick up the slack.
11:59Believe it or not, when the fiberglass body came up,
12:02everybody was there and we slotted it on and it went on like a glove.
12:07But then...
12:08Uh-oh.
12:08...all the gadgets started to come in from the art department.
12:12That's right.
12:13Gadgets such as...
12:14Where the hook comes out.
12:18We had two machine guns.
12:22Which were the biggest gadgets.
12:24But they were almost the biggest mini-gadgets.
12:27I had encouraged Anton to use mini-guns.
12:30I had just seen Predator.
12:33Having those come out of the bonnet would be great.
12:37Uh...
12:43But they couldn't get a license to get those weapons into the UK.
12:46That was a problem that wasn't our problem, really.
12:50Don't get too excited, John.
12:52They'd find something else for you to cram in there.
12:54Eventually, they went with Brownings,
12:56which armories in this country had access to.
12:59But they were coming in two weeks after we started the design of the car,
13:04so it caused problems.
13:06But we did get it in the end.
13:07But there were a few extra features
13:09to be bolted onto the outside of the Batmobile.
13:12The front intake is from a Harrier,
13:15and the back is from a Rolls-Royce jet engine?
13:18That's perfection.
13:19The flame out the back of the Batmobile,
13:22which we had to create,
13:24it's not easy,
13:25because you've got to get the force of it
13:27coming across on the screen.
13:29And I just didn't feel we had it right.
13:32For about a week, we were playing around with it.
13:35Avoid the following combinations.
13:38Liquid gas, paraffin, and petrol.
13:41Yeah, sounds safe.
13:43We had to be careful.
13:45We got the driver in there.
13:46If anything went wrong with his flame,
13:51you've got big problems.
13:54Luckily for the film's insurance policy...
13:56We did get it in the end.
13:57And no stunt drivers were incinerated.
13:59But John did have reason to worry
14:01about one particular Batmobile driver.
14:04The one on the movie poster.
14:06We kept asking Michael Keaton
14:08to sit in the Batmobile for a fitting,
14:10because it was tight.
14:12Can't imagine why he wouldn't want to.
14:14Liquid gas, paraffin, and petrol.
14:18You can take all the measurements you like.
14:20If you don't have an actual fitting,
14:22him sitting physically in it,
14:25you don't know.
14:25But they were about to find out.
14:27On the first day we shot,
14:30the first time he had jumped into it,
14:32he was too tall,
14:33and the ears were sticking out.
14:35When the cockpit closed,
14:37his ears were bent back.
14:39Well, if anyone had a solution,
14:41Michael was all ears.
14:42If you look at the scenes inside the cockpit,
14:46he's got these special little ears
14:48that he's wearing.
14:49Good luck trying to spot them.
14:51He's sensitive about his stubby-nubbies.
14:54But that was, again, my ignorance.
14:57Well, at least there was one thing
14:59impervious to Julian's inexperience
15:01with a tape measure.
15:02The paint job.
15:03I always had the idea
15:04that it should look like
15:05a Beatles carapace.
15:07It's got, like, purple and blue
15:09and all these colors.
15:10It's very organic.
15:11And somehow the guys who did the paint job
15:14managed to emulate this thing
15:15so that from different angles
15:17it had different colors.
15:18And to finish it off...
15:19They didn't give it a glossy finish.
15:21Opting for satin instead.
15:23It was really the perfect way
15:25to kind of make it just a little bit darker
15:27on every level,
15:28absorbing everything that it went around.
15:30But just like Bruce Wayne...
15:31Now you want to get nuts?
15:33Come on!
15:34Let's get nuts.
15:35Satin paint can be temperamental.
15:37Just a little wear and tear on it
15:39would scratch it.
15:40There's a scene where Vicki Vale
15:42is getting out of the car
15:44and she throws her heel.
15:46And the reason she did that
15:48is she would scratch the Batmobile.
15:50You weigh a little more than 108.
15:52The paint was very temperamental.
15:54Which, for the record,
15:56was not Julian's fault.
15:57And lucky for him,
15:59neither was what would happen next.
16:02Whoa.
16:05Against all odds,
16:07Anton Furst's art department
16:08and John Evans' special effects team
16:10designed and built two Batmobiles
16:13in four months' time.
16:14Filming was well underway when...
16:16Anton comes in the workshop
16:18Sunday afternoon
16:19and he said,
16:20oh, I'd like to drive the Batmobile.
16:22I can't say no to him.
16:24He's the designer.
16:25He could send Anton off
16:26with special effects team member Andy Smith.
16:29I said, be careful.
16:30Don't let him get in the driving seat.
16:33Just take him up and down Gotham City.
16:35That's quite a good speed
16:36and he'd be happy.
16:37Sure, couldn't do any harm.
16:39About 15 minutes later,
16:41Andy Smith comes in the workshop,
16:43white-faced.
16:44He said, he's crashed the car.
16:46I said, no.
16:46Yes.
16:48And this was no minor fender bender.
16:50He crashed it into one of the lampposts.
16:54I said, why'd you let him get in it?
16:56Luckily, Anton was fine.
16:58But it was lights out
17:00for the lamppost
17:01and the Batmobile.
17:02And I'd go out there
17:04and he smashed all the side of the car.
17:06If only someone had told him to...
17:08Stop.
17:12Uh, talking about you, John.
17:14So now, this prop,
17:16we've only got two.
17:17Well, now one.
17:18And at this point, it's...
17:20Two o'clock, three o'clock.
17:21Sunday afternoon,
17:23we've got to have it on the set
17:25for Monday morning.
17:26It was time to send out a signal
17:28for help.
17:29So I phoned the guy up
17:30who took some fiberglass,
17:32told him the situation.
17:35Plus, we had to get it sprayed as well.
17:38Luckily, no one else had brunch plans
17:40that day either.
17:41Skin of our teeth, we got it done.
17:43But how we got it done,
17:44I don't know.
17:45The Batmobile was as good as new.
17:49And nobody knew about it.
17:51Only Anton and me.
17:53Well, and the lamppost.
17:56With the Batmobile back in...
17:58action,
17:59Batman wrapped filming
18:00in January of 1989
18:01and headed for the summer box office.
18:04If you start lining up now,
18:05you might get in to see it
18:07the first couple of days.
18:08And while this kid felt good about it...
18:10I think it's gonna be rad.
18:11Others had reason to be trepidatious.
18:13You have to understand,
18:14we didn't have a ton of superhero movies,
18:16and most of them were not just bad.
18:21They were awful.
18:23Hey, man, I don't wanna mess with you.
18:24Open the door, would you please?
18:25I'm not feeling well.
18:27The stakes are about as high as they could be
18:29that it is not dumb.
18:33I can definitely remember going to see it
18:35with my family.
18:36And there's that line where
18:38Batman and Vicki Vale
18:40come out of the museum
18:41and Batman says,
18:43Get my car.
18:43And she says,
18:44Which one?
18:44And then...
18:48And the whole audience
18:50bursts into applause.
18:54And it can all be attributed
18:55to the sure-handed talent
18:57of the now successful
18:58veteran production designer
19:00Julian Cal...
19:01That was something
19:02I didn't even realize
19:03I was doing at the time.
19:05And this should have been
19:06when Julian learned
19:07about taking credit
19:08when things go well
19:09on the job.
19:11The 1989 Batmobile
19:13was an instant classic.
19:14And while there have been
19:15many different versions
19:16in the years since,
19:18They're each different approaches
19:19to executing
19:20an absurd comic book
19:21in the real world.
19:23Some a little more absurd
19:24than others.
19:25Chicks dig the car.
19:26This is why Superman
19:27works alone.
19:29None have quite captured
19:30the magic
19:30of that mythical summer
19:32of the Bat.
19:32I was proud of it
19:33and all my team were
19:35very proud of it.
19:36Never got to drive it.
19:38Shame.
19:39There's people of a certain age
19:41who when they went to see it
19:42thought it was the best thing
19:43they'd ever seen.
19:43Now they're 40
19:44and they look back
19:46with that movie
19:47with a lot of nostalgia.
19:49And while you can never
19:50truly go back.
19:51And here's our exclusive
19:52first look
19:53at the $17 Batmobile.
19:54Yeah, that hasn't
19:55stopped some from trying.
19:59Jumping into the Batmobile.
20:00Oh, okay.
20:02Gently easing
20:04into the Batmobile
20:08is like jumping
20:09into the pages
20:10of a comic book
20:11with nothing but open road
20:12and crime
20:13to fight ahead of you.
20:15Because it's more
20:16than a car.
20:18It's every bit
20:19a crime-fighting hero itself,
20:21worthy of sharing
20:22the screen with arguably
20:23the most iconic superhero
20:25of all time.
20:27I'm Batman.
20:39I'll kill you!
20:40I'll kill you!
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