TITANS Concept Art Reveals Some Awesome Alternate Takes On The Dark Knight's Batmobile

In the "Jason Todd" episode of Titans, we caught a glimpse of Batman's Batmobile and now some new concept art reveals the huge amount of work that went into dreaming up a redesigned version of the car...

By JoshWilding - Nov 20, 2018 11:11 AM EST

Filed Under: Titans

During last Friday's episode of Titans, we paid a brief visit to the Batcave and got to see a fleeting glimpse of the Batmobile. Whether or not it will have a larger role in proceedings moving forward largely hinges on whether or not Batman himself is going to make an appearance but some new concept art has been revealed by artist John Gallagher showing off a number of different versions.

Some of these quite clearly pay homage to the comics, while others are based on past movies.

A handful are total redesigns, though, and it's those which are the most exciting as it's hard not to think about just how amazing they might look on the big screen if and when Matt Reeves' The Batman finally becomes a reality at some point in the next few years.

So, to take a look at this concept art and to hear from Gallagher, simply hit the "View List" button.

"So awhile back I was asked to design the Batmobile for the Titans series," he reveals. "It debuted last episode so the secret’s out and I kept my mouth shut this whole time lol. But seriously, who wouldn’t want to get a call like that? Bucket List! Encore VFX gave me wide open freedom to explore so that’s always a good lane to start in."

"So I set about, as is standard operating procedure with funnel shaped design, with broad strokes on the landscape of the vehicle while embracing all eras, iterations and media variants – real world, toys, animation, comics, features wherever I could find one and narrow the focus going forward."

"But getting the bones right is the only goal after that it’s all window dressing. Then of course toward the end it gets cut and pasted to final form and all stakeholders sign off on the cool ass winner usually a mix of elements from the final four or five. To say the Batmobile since May 1939 has been designed to death is no understatement."

"So, a core design that honours the traditions of the past and design legacy while also being forward looking, contemporary and distinctively Titans," the artist continues. "I think fans of the show will appreciate the nods to some subtle final colour choices, profile and form language to a couple classics in the ’66 and the ’89."

"I worked through over thirty complete ideations and a couple dozen abandoned relics borrowing inspirations from our shared real world automative history and full spectrum media. Here’s just a few of many explorations that got the dialogue started."

"The final you’ll just have to watch the show and see how the army of geniuses who took up the cause after me did with it," he concludes, hinting that the vehicle will be shown in its entirety at some point in the DC TV series. What do you guys think of these designs? Share your thoughts in the comments section and stay tuned for updates.

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knocturnalzen10 - 11/20/2018, 11:36 AM

1 pic is lovely reminds me of beyond one without wheels

QuakerDaddy - 11/20/2018, 2:58 PM

@knocturnalzen10 - Do you guys think Josh jacks off to concept art pictures?

JstaKIDfrmBKLYN - 11/20/2018, 11:45 AM

THIS!!! Perfect real life replica of the classic batmobile fro Batman: The Animated Series.

Battabing - 11/20/2018, 11:47 AM

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GhostDog - 11/20/2018, 11:49 AM

All of this, no offense to the artist, is literally fan art you can find anywhere on the internet. Ive seen evry one of these concepts online. My man could've saved himself some time and energy, and just input "batmobile" into the DeviantArt search bar and called it a day lol

Nebula - 11/20/2018, 11:50 AM

I swear I had a toy of each of these when I was younger.

Doomsday8888 - 11/20/2018, 11:52 AM

I dig em. :3

aflynn - 11/20/2018, 12:08 PM

bcom - 11/20/2018, 12:32 PM

I quite like this one...

Nightwing1015 - 11/20/2018, 12:33 PM

I can't believe Titans has the budget to design and build a brand new Batmobile. When would you need the Batmobile in the series anyway? It's not a Batman show. Or re-use one of the old Batmobiles and put the budget into something else.

Asturgis - 11/20/2018, 1:06 PM

@Nightwing1015 - It could be just a CGI shot like last episode in the safe house. A bigger scene, of course, maybe a trip to the cave with the car rotating in the middle and a close-up, something like that, I doubt there's gonna be an actual scene, unless they bought a Lambo, a Pagani, a Saleen or a supercar like that, and tuned it.

Himura - 11/20/2018, 1:58 PM

@Nightwing1015 - ....have you even watched the show? Its basically a Robin show. Which means there's gonna be a lot of Batman stuff.

Nightwing1015 - 11/20/2018, 2:43 PM

@Himura - Have you even watched the show? Batman's blocked Robin out of all Batcaves/safehouses. So there's no reason there would be much Batman stuff. Expect maybe in flashbacks or something. But if Titans can't show Batman, their use of flashbacks would be pretty limited.

rocketeuropa - 11/20/2018, 12:36 PM

The first and last art is just a thinly-disguised early 80s Lamborghini.

bkmeijer2 - 11/20/2018, 12:48 PM

I think all of them look pretty cool. Wonder what the final result'll look like

Asturgis - 11/20/2018, 1:02 PM

@MalseMarcel - We've already seen one in the background in the safe house last episode. See post above.

bkmeijer2 - 11/20/2018, 1:12 PM

@Asturgis - Yeah that's true, but I really wanna see it in action. That's what I mean

Asturgis - 11/20/2018, 1:01 PM

Holy [frick]balls and lemonade, those last 2 Titans episodes kicked it up 300%. I legit can't imagine a better actor to portray Robin now. Guy's amazing. Everyone is starting to be really likable, the story is progressing, good music (to my shitty tastes), fighting is on point, a few nods here and there for fan service, no teen emo drama BS… It's fast becoming one of my favorite shows. Not quite Netflix level, but not that far either. Even Kory who was a bit of a cold fish is starting to open up and be really cool. Rachel is cute, Gar is likable and funny…

And speaking of Batmobile, anyone watched the last episode? There's like a 1.5 second shot of a futuristic Batmobile made of liquid metal or something, very Tron like, I wasn't expecting it and I nearly fell off my chair. You can barely see it but it looks better than all those concept sketches combined. Batman meets Tron.

DBLACK - 11/20/2018, 1:09 PM

If used for racing from A to B then maybe some of those sleek designs might be ideal, but if the vehicle is intended for stunts and jumps, back to the drawing board I say.

Nice art though.

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