Building a better BATMOBILE

The Batmobiles from 1966 to Present

Last night the CW aired Director Roko Belic’s special 30 minute documentary entitled; THE BATMOBILE (from New Wave Entertainment and Warner Bros).  With timing strategic to the release of The Dark Knight Rises this week, it was a fun and quick history lesson on the caped-crusader and his preferred method of travel. Click ahead to read more about the show…

For me, this 30 minutes of mindless fun, fluff television represented something far more than a flashy showcase of beautiful crane shots of these custom made works of art, snippets of interviews from designers and filmmakers, and clips from the Films and TV shows that made them famous. THE BATMOBILE documentary was reminiscent of the pre-promotional TV specials of the 80’s that the major TV networks used to put out the week of an upcoming blockbuster’s theatrical release. These specially produced behind the scenes promotional shows were the equivalent to eventually what became the special features we would come to find on DVD’s and BluRays. Lost nowadays is that extra push to really reach a wider audience at home watching TV, but this recent Batmobile special hit home with me and harkened back to old fashioned movie marketing fun.

Look for the Full-Length THE BATMOBILE documentary coming this holiday to Blu-Ray and Digital Download, and the watch below, the official trailer that was just released this past weekend during Comic-Con.

 

 

Look for The Batmobile Documenatry within The Dark Knight Rises Blu Ray box set later this year.

 

Check out Steven Kirk’s article over at the Examiner online, about the Batmobile documentary and general history of the car’s development thru the years from comic books to the silver screen [HERE].

 

 

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