BAT CAR!

THE NEW BATMOBILE MIGHT LOOK ROUGH AND READY, BUT IT IS THE HANDIWORK OF A TEAM OF EXPERT BUILDERS.

BY ZACK KLAPMAN

ALTHOUGH WE LIVE in uncertain times, life has never been easier. Tap your phone a few times and a hamburger or a car can arrive at your door. Open your favorite streaming service and a buffet of fresh movies appears as if conjured by Harry Potter himself. But computers don’t make those burgers, cars, or movies. People do. They still write scripts, aim cameras, build sets, rewrite scenes, pull out hairs, and create props. In the case of The Bat-man, the latest film in a media franchise that began as a comic in 1939, that prop is a car. The car. The Batmobile. The Batmobile is an iconic character with a shape that changes with each director. Adam West drove an open-air Barris creation; Michael Keaton, a turbine-powered slipstream that could double…

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