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You Won't Believe How Terrible H.R. Giger’s Designs For The Batmobile Were

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You Won’t Believe How Terrible H.R. Giger’s Designs For The Batmobile Were

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March 10, 2017
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It’s been revealed that the highly accomplished designer, H.R. Giger, well known for his sci-fi creatures in the Alien films, also did a few designs for 1995’s Batman Forever. Ultimately, his designs were turned down and Joel Schumacher went with Barbara Ling’s design.

H.R. Giger’s Batmobile is distinctly his style: a slightly unsettling mix of biology and technology (not unsimilar to his work on Alien). It’s probably something that belongs more in a sci-fi horror film than a Batman comic book movie. It’s not that difficult to imagine that the design was inspired by a pair of scissors. The real question is why? Either way, we’re all shocked that Schumacher missed the opportunity to make a bad film even worse. I mean this Gigermobile fits right in there with the Batnipples.

H.R. Giger was contacted in 1994 to design a Batmobile for Batman Forever. His unique “X” shaped design was to include articulated front legs/mandibles, retractable fins, and gatling gun emplacements on each of the four pods on the sides of the vehicle. The design also combined side and forward intake ports with organic spines and a central pod connecting the four legs.

Below you can see some of H.R. Giger’s Batmobile…

H.R. Giger Batmobile

H.R. Giger Batmobile

You Won't Believe How Terrible H.R. Giger’s Designs For The Batmobile Were

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Comments 26

  1. Ra LaMothe says:
    7 years ago

    Thank GOD that wasn’t accepted! That is TOTALLY horrendous!!

    Reply
  2. Gary Cangemi says:
    7 years ago

    Egads! Where’s the retractable mandibles?

    Reply
  3. Mike McTighe says:
    7 years ago

    HG Giger should stick to drawing vaginas and penises.

    Reply
  4. H.I McDunnough says:
    7 years ago

    That’s the stupidest looking thing I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen Batman & Robin. It looks like some shit The Grinch would drive on his way to fuck shit up in Who’ville.

    Reply
  5. Darien Thorne says:
    4 years ago

    I sence some kind of pattern here…

    Reply
  6. Jeffrey Grayson says:
    4 years ago

    h.r. giger IS a dick lover

    Reply
  7. Dave says:
    4 years ago

    I was expecting a massive cock on wheels, tbh.

    Reply
  8. Dylan Johnson says:
    4 years ago

    You mean awesome right. This could have made the Ben Affleck movies at least slightly tolerable.

    Reply
  9. Luis Diaz says:
    4 years ago

    Wow like-minded comments. Seems legit. These designs are bad ass, but it doesn’t fit with the atrocity that was that early Batman franchise. It seemed to have the umbilical chord still attached from the campy 60’s Adam West Batman. Tim Burton did a good job, but unfortunately it still had that late 80’s flair attached and didn’t fully understand the character. I think no one really does. Nolan had some nice instances of it, but frankly the best Batman story will always be between pages in a comic or graphic novel.

    Reply
  10. nun ya says:
    4 years ago

    how is that terrible? this article is terrable

    Reply
  11. Frank says:
    4 years ago

    You should change the title of the article to “You Won’t believe how dumb the Art Directors for Batman were.” because this shows more of a bad art direction choice rather than Giger doing something bad. You hire Giger to do surreal bio-mechanical designs that no one else would think of, you don’t hire him to design a bat-mobile – unless you want the design to be a surreal bio-mechanical design that no one else would think of. Or you’re just a huge fanboy of Giger and this was your chance to get him to draw you a bat-mobile.

    Reply
  12. Dan says:
    4 years ago

    Ginger has been dead 3 years now. Easy to badmouth someone not around to defend themselves. The design itself is solid and creative, just inappropriate for the overly campy “Batman Forever.” I could easily see this working for a Batman Arkham project, or a new Batman vs Predator mini-series.

    Reply
  13. le110pillole says:
    4 years ago

    Its’ not Giger works that was bad, it’s your childish batmobile that wasn’t enough for an Artist like Giger. It’s like calling Leonardo Da Vinci and ask him to design the wheel for your hamster, or ask Fellini to film the birthday of your Uncle.

    Reply
  14. Chaingunart says:
    4 years ago

    Well they look like Giger’s work.
    If you hire an artist with a distinct style that’s what your gonna get.
    I don’t think you they’re terrible, far from it.

    Reply
  15. Bert says:
    4 years ago

    It’ s terrific. Just nerdy people never want to try something different. Never touch rtheir comfort zone.

    Reply
  16. James Unger says:
    4 years ago

    Crystal Marie Hersey

    Reply
  17. Crystal Marie Hersey says:
    4 years ago

    No

    Reply
  18. Greg Kidgell says:
    3 years ago

    Jarid Norman

    Reply
    • Jarid Norman says:
      3 years ago

      Yeah too much like the Engeneers ship from alien

      Reply
  19. Nelius Blignaut says:
    3 years ago

    Bettter than the batman and Robin one

    Reply
    • Isaiah Rogers says:
      3 years ago

      No ways. The Batman and Robin one isn’t great but this looks like a giant penis. Lol.

      Reply
  20. Jay Compton says:
    3 years ago

    Thankfully, it was never used; hell, the batnipples were disturbing enough.

    Reply
  21. Joff Lazarus says:
    3 years ago

    pure shit

    Reply
  22. Roselyn Brown says:
    3 years ago

    Looks like a giant scissor. NO!

    Reply
  23. Shaun P. Canavan says:
    3 years ago

    Oh God, that is awful

    Reply
  24. Andrew Sutherland says:
    3 years ago

    its Giger. He’s a genius so obviously he’s going to design something unlike anything anyone has seen before. It’s why his work was so great for alien but inappropriate for Batman.

    Reply

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