June, 2007
June 29th, 2007 | Digg This
Tony sent this in to us, beware of spoilers,
Just saw them wrap up shooting in the Old Town neighborhood in Chicago. Production trailers were everywhere! They filmed scenes earlier today at a bar called “Twin Anchors” and then just filmed another scene up the street involving a Mercedes E-Class. There was an older lady sitting the driver’s seat (in front of a nice brownstone) and it appeared that the car had been hit/partially blown up. The coolest part was that there were playing cards EVERYWHERE! Didn’t see any significant actors but I did see Nolan, who was dressed nicely as usual.
We should have some pictures coming soon.
June 29th, 2007 | Digg This
Christian Bale has been talking to MTV about The Dark Knight. Speaking about Heath’s portrayal of the Joker, Bale confirms that this incarnation will be darker and grounded by reality,
“I think I should let Heath give you the answer on all this, certainly I think that we dig a little more than the other movies did. [...] we try to ground them in somewhat more reality than the other movies.”
Check out MTV’s Batpod video here (only accessible from US).
June 28th, 2007 | Digg This
This time we get to see the dashing GCPD police officers. This first image is from TitanVisuals
Jeanne M. Grunhard has also snapped a great shot of the Gotham City PD,
(Copyright J.Grunhard, reproduced with permission)
Kyle Marks also has some interesting set pictures, click the link to see a gallery of 24:
Via SuperHeroHype:
June 28th, 2007 | Digg This
Variety are reporting that Melinda McGraw (CBS’ “Center of the Universe”) and Nathan Gamble (”Babel”) have joined the cast of The Dark Knight playing the wife and son of Jim Gordon respectively.
ABC Local are running a rather uneventful video from The Dark Knight set in Chicago, complete with overhead flying helicopter.
SuperHeroHype has another spoiler filled set report.
June 27th, 2007 | Digg This
At the Rescue Dawn press event SuperHeroHype were there to quiz and talk to Christian Bale about The Dark Knight. He had this to say about filming the sequel:
“People aren’t questioning, ‘Are they going to do it or not?’ [Referring to success of Batman franchise after the Batman and Robin atrocity] There’s been an acceptance of, ‘Yes, these guys know what they’re doing’ and also, because we got so familiar with each other… it’s now the third movie that I have made with Chris (Nolan) and Michael Caine. I’ve gotten to know everybody. We all know how we all work. It’s like my 5th movie with the D.P. It just flies along because there’s no question in trying to sort of work each other out at all. We all know how we like to do it, and there’s a nice shorthand between us all in terms of communication.”
And when asked about out-doing Batman Begins and the pressures of building on such a successful film,
“If we’re just doing the same, then what’s the point? There are people who should demand that. [...] That would be the death knell, wouldn’t it? If we all got complacent, just said, ‘Oh, we just have to bang out the same thing we did before.’ Sure, we use the strengths, and we’re not going to discard the things that worked, but we’ve got to move forward as well.”
SuperHeroHype are also running a new spoilerific report on some filming in Chicago.
And for fun, here’s Heath and Bale having dinner together:
