A brief history of the Batmobile on the screen After the photos revealed by Matt Reeves, here's how one of the icons of pop culture has changed over the years

Batman is one of pop culture's most iconic characters. Since his first appearance, on Detective Comics #27 in 1939, the Caped Crusader has been played by eleven actors, has appeared in sixteen films, fifteen TV shows, twelve video games, six novels and one musical. Alongside him, there has always been a whole universe of characters, places and gadgets of which the Batmobile is perhaps one of the most iconic. The Batmobile has received as many updates as its driver and, among comics, video games, cartoons and movies, there are many versions ranging from elegant to futuristic to military. But yesterday, when director Matt Reeves posted three shots of what will appear in the next The Batman, the online reactions were more than positive. The new Batmobile is in fact very realistic, made from one of the most iconic muscle-cars in the history of cinema, the 1969 Dodge Charger, obviously in an all-black armored version, and constitutes a decisive variation from almost all those that the year before. 

After the failure of the new reboot, the director of the upcoming The Batman, Matt Reeves clearly opted for a muscle car aesthetic and chose a '69 Dodge Charger – an iconic model and symbol of the carsploitation genre appeared in movies like Bullitt, Christine, Vanishing Point, The Fast & The Furious and Death Proof. And many of the online reactions to the photos revealed by the same director have already begun to praise the choice of a more realistic and more relatable car for the audience. As Ben Walke said in his commentary, this is "a Batmobile I can get behind".