To The Batmobile, Edge!

10 Feb 2004
Edge in Gotham City to perform theme song for new series of 'The Batman'.

'The Batman will feature the most complex and intriguing character in comicbook history in action-packed super-heroic adventures, melding the renownedcharacter's extraordinary physical prowess and super-sleuthing skills with anew range of experimental Bat-gadgets and amped-up Batmobiles.' (It sayshere.)

The theme song for the new show, which hits screens this autumn, will beperformed by the Edge. This is not the first U2 brush with the Dark Knight.According to Warner Bros, 'The new series picks up Batman's story in yearthree: in his mid-twenties, just finding his way as protector, defender andCaped Crusader, while balancing his public persona as billionaire bachelorBruce Wayne. Living in Gotham, a metropolis where shadows run long anddeep, beneath elevated train tracks and within a 150-year-old drainagesystem, this younger Batman will confront updated takes of familiar foes --meeting each member of his classic Rogue's Gallery for the first time. Fromthe likes of Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Riddler and Man-Bat,among others, the war on crime jumps to the next level with a new arsenal atthe Dark Knight's disposal, all operated and linked by an advancedremote-controlled invention he dubs the "Bat-Wave."

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