Batwing Miniature Used For BATMAN FOREVER

Batwing Miniature Used For BATMAN FOREVER

The team of artists at the Academy Award-winning special effects company McCune Design constructed miniatures of the Bat Cave, Batwing, Caped Crusader and Arkham Asylum for Joel Schumacher's 1995 film Batman Forever. Come see some of their work.

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By nailbiter111 - Dec 26, 2014 10:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Batman Forever (1995)
Source: McCune Design

In Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever, miniatures of the Batwing and Batman (Val Kilmer) were required for the scenes leading up to confrontation at Claw Island. That is where Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and the Riddler (Jim Carrey) have taken Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman). In the video below, you can watch as The Batwing zooms through the Bat Cave and emerges in the Gotham City sky. Batman's plane is later shot down by The Riddler and then becomes a mini-submarine.

The McCune Design team created a 1/6th scale cave interior, and a highly detailed Bat Plane that hung and launched from the cave ceiling. In addition, extensive labyrinths of tunnels were built for high-speed P.O.V. views from the plane as it exited the Bat Cave. Other scenes required the creation The Arkham Asylum exterior and a highly detailed Gotham Alley. When the alley dead ends, The Bat Mobile raced up a vertical wall. - McCune Design

Riddle me this, riddle me that, you'll adventure on the wings of bat! Brace for excitement as Val Kilmer (Batman), Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face), Jim Carrey (the Riddler), Nicole Kidman (Dr. Chase Meridian) and Chris O'Donnell (Robin) star in the third spectacular film in Warner Bros.' Batman series. Joel Schumacher (The Client) directs and Tim Burton co-produces this thrill-ride of a movie that thunders along on Batmobile, Batwing, Batboat, Batsub and bold heroics. Hang on!

Actors: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Joel Schumacher
Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Bob Kane, Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler
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alamborn19
alamborn19 - 12/26/2014, 10:18 PM
@nailbiter111 I'm suprised with all the schmucks on this site being banned for stuff dem' Bat-Nipples otta raise an eyebrow...
SmellofDuty
SmellofDuty - 12/26/2014, 10:26 PM
But still, pretty cool. I couldn't have the patience for that detail.
Cayo
Cayo - 12/26/2014, 10:34 PM
My favorite Batwing will always be from the one in BTAS.
First time seeing it was in Batman: Subzero. Talk about childhood memories.
BatmanHeisenberg
BatmanHeisenberg - 12/26/2014, 11:00 PM
[frick]ing disgusting movie.
konoyaro
konoyaro - 12/26/2014, 11:41 PM
anything on batmans schumacher movies,ANYTHING WAS GOOD.
terrible designs
horrible scripts
silly atmosphere
almost destroyed Clooney acting career,actually destroyed Odonnells career.
man it was a crazy time...
cant believe i actually watched that in the theater twice when i was a kid,that how much i was desperate for a CBM fix.
konoyaro
konoyaro - 12/26/2014, 11:42 PM
thank to the gods things changed!
robometrallador
robometrallador - 12/26/2014, 11:51 PM
ass kicker vehicles, as a kid i loved this movie. When the trailer came out i flipped out. The joel schumacher movies get too much hate, they were awesome as a kid. whoever hates them was simply born after the 1991 and checked them out in nostalgia critic.
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 12/27/2014, 12:52 AM
The cinematography was extravagant in Batman Forever, and was rightfully recognized for it. The score and set design was superb too, I'll give it that. And I can't help but enjoy Carrey in the film, even though he was more like Joker 2.0 rather than the Riddler.
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 12/27/2014, 12:54 AM
Imagine what Schumacher could have done had WB let him adapt Year One like he originally wanted to.
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 12/27/2014, 12:56 AM
It'd be interest and something worth checking for myself, at least.
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 12/27/2014, 1:16 AM
That cowl is the sickest. Maybe not all the extra lines, but the general structure is the best I've seen in the movies. Kilmer looks like BATMAN from the 70s comics.

Fritzthecat
Fritzthecat - 12/27/2014, 3:38 AM
Does anyone else think the head is oversized on that Val-Bat figure?
grif
grif - 12/27/2014, 5:00 AM
back when this stuff was still a craft. not as much cgi
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 12/27/2014, 5:40 AM
I prefer "the bat" over that thing.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 12/27/2014, 5:54 AM
Very impressive. Almost makes me want to watch the movie again. ALMOST.
pepe
pepe - 12/27/2014, 6:13 AM
Nice.... Dat flick thow
jaewest215
jaewest215 - 12/27/2014, 6:57 AM
I liked this movie because it was different from the two previous ones. I took this movie for what it was.
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 12/27/2014, 9:07 AM
Val Kilmer=Best Batman on screen. Come at me bros.
GrayFox1025
GrayFox1025 - 12/27/2014, 9:14 AM
I remember getting the toy of the Batwing that transformed into the Batboat for Christmas one year. Ah the memories.
TheBatfleck1
TheBatfleck1 - 12/27/2014, 9:19 AM
@Batmaniac No that title belongs to Batman & Robin or Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. To me Batman Forever is the 3rd best Batman film behind only 1) Batman Begins and 2) The Dark Knight.
TheBatfleck1
TheBatfleck1 - 12/27/2014, 9:22 AM
@MightyZeus That Batwing looks more like a bat than "The Bat" did. Which looked absolutely nothing like a bat at all.
MisterBatfleck
MisterBatfleck - 12/27/2014, 9:32 AM
The Batman and Superman films are parallel to each other not that you think of it:

Batman 1/Superman 1: Both were huge critically and commercially

Batman Returns/ Superman 2: Both were good and made equally or close to the original's amount but for some reason the director's got canned after this.

Batman Forever/Superman 3: Good movies, not great and they made a modest profit.

Batman and Robin/Superman 4: Utter shit.
Bodwulf
Bodwulf - 12/27/2014, 9:46 AM
Still could use that design and it would look great.
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 12/27/2014, 10:46 AM
@v8er
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 12/27/2014, 10:59 AM
imkennypowers
imkennypowers - 12/27/2014, 10:59 AM
@GrayFox1025
Kozmik
Kozmik - 12/27/2014, 6:38 PM
As much crap as Joel Schumacher gets for Batman Forever it had great production design, particularly the various Bat-vehicles. If only he invested as much care in getting a script worth filming, getting rid of the overt homoeroticism and garish color schemes.
thatcoldblackcloud
thatcoldblackcloud - 12/27/2014, 7:23 PM
These Schumacher films are absolute garbage, but I totally love them because they were part of my childhood (back when I didn't take films seriously at all and just enjoyed them for what they were)---- I will watch these 100 times over gladly.
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