The world’s first Warner Bros. themed hotel has opened in Abu Dhabi, and early visitors have discovered something huge: Robert Pattinson’s Batmobile, from the upcoming Matt Reeves-directed The Batman, is on display, months before the movie debuts.
Batman fans have been eager to get a look at the Batmobile for years since the movie was first announced, only catching a quick glimpse of it in the movie’s trailer and in leaked production videos, so the fact that it has shown up in the UAE, allowing visitors to see every facet of the car before the rest of the world does, is a pretty shocking development.
Take a look at the car here, spotted by one of the early visitors:
The Batmobile looks nothing like the recent Zack Snyder or Christopher Nolan Batmobiles that looked more equipped for the battlefield than the paved streets of Gotham, nor does it look anything like the Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batmobiles that looked much more cartoonish, in line with the comic book designs we’d seen for years.
Matt Reeves spoke about the design for the Batmobile at DC FanDome recently.
“One of the things you have to do is you have to design a bat suit, you have to design a Batmobile you have to have a Batcave you have to have that like all of the things that he’s going to have. And so, you know, for me that’s been one of the exciting things and that happened even before we were quite done with the last iteration of the script you know we don’t, we’ve already gone through passes and it was quite clear what the vision of the world was being while I’m writing,” says Reeves.
“I’d say we spent easily, a year to do the bat suit and then to get into the Batmobile and that of course, that part’s a dream, I mean you know you start the idea of getting to do your own version of the Batmobile is like you just kind of like that. That’s the incredible candy, right? Like the telling of the story is the hard work and trying to make sure that you’re doing the right thing, and then when you get to dive into the idea of this car that again feels connected to this version of the character a grounded version of the character, this is something that he built and to try and look at those kinds of rough seams and imagine how that works. It’s a, it’s been incredible sort of gift to be able to do that,” he continued.
If you want to get a look yourself, or take a picture with the Batmobile before The Batman hits theaters across the world, rush down to The WB Hotel in Abu Dhabi before all your friends get down there—you’re not going to want to miss this.
