10 Insane Storyboards That Were Too Extreme For The Batman Movies

9. H.R. Giger's Batmobile (Batman Forever)

The Concept: Back in the mid-1990s, the genius artist behind the designs of Ridley Scott's Alien, the late Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger, was hired to rustle up some new designs for the Batmobile for Schumacher's Batman Forever. Bats' new ride was shaped like an X, had various retractable elements, mounted gatling guns, and basically looked more like an insect than a car. Why It's Too Extreme: On every artistic level, this is just too out there. For starters, Giger is infamous for his use of genital-related imagery in his designs (Alien is absolutely littered with vaginal references), and this is no exception, what with the Batmobile's protruding, phallic front, which is a major no-no in a movie aimed at children (considerably more so than is true of Tim Burton's darker Batman films). Then there's the sheer wackiness of it, in that it's just too divorced from any previous Batmobile design, and with its organic elements, would probably just be too weird for mainstream audiences to accept, even if the exact same thing was said about Nolan's Tumbler. Still, for all of the dark themes that Batman dances with, these movies don't belong in the realm of David Cronenberg-esque grotesquery.