Monday, October 31, 2011

'Batman: The Dark Knight Rises' begins filming in New York, photos show gridlock in real-life Gotham City


 Movie workers lifted up this flying bat mobile in the Financial District to shoot a scene for the Batman movie on Sunday.
John Taggart for New York Daily News
'Dark Knight Rises' crew members lifted up what is allegedly a flying bat mobile in the Financial District to shoot a scene for the Batman movie on Sunday.
A little freezing weather and gridlock won't stop Batman from occupying Wall Street.
Filming for the last installment of Christopher Nolan's "Batman" trilogy kicked off this weekend, bringing a swarm of more than 1,000 actors and extras to Gotham City and drawing gawkers and fans alike to the southern tip of Manhattan.
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Where's the emergency? Police trucks for the film took over downtown Manhattan. (Lauren Johnston/New York Daily News)
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Cop cars bearing Gotham Police Department emblems roamed the streets. (Lauren Johnston/New York Daily News)
The project, masked under code name "Magnus Rex," was hardly a secret Sunday as a menacing Batmobile structure hung suspended in the air by numerous cables at the intersection of Broad and Water Streets just outside of the Daily News offices.
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Bystanders gawk at the large prop as it hangs suspended in the air by multiple cables. (Michael Dabin/New York Daily News)
"Dark Knight Rises" is scheduled to film on Wall Street in the coming days, though sources have confirmed that the Occupy Wall Street protesters will not be involved in the film, as had been speculated earlier.
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Filming of the new 'Batman' movie in lower Manhattan came complete with fake Gotham police badges. (Lauren Johnston/New York Daily News)
Rumors were initially swirling that Nolan planned to incorporate the protesters in the film, though it wouldn't necessarily mean that they would be integrated into the storyline.
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License plates with a fake Gotham imprint were also spotted around town. (Lauren Johnston/New York Daily News)
City Hall has also been rented for filming, and production is set to move on to Newark, New Jersey for a few days of shooting next week.
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One New York Plaza became a real-life backdrop to the film. (Michael Dabin/New York Daily News)
The much-anticipated film, which stars a who's who roster of names including Christian BaleJoseph Gordon-LevittAnne Hathaway and Marion Cotillard, is set to relase in July 2012.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/batman-dark-knight-rises-begins-filming-york-photos-show-gridlock-real-life-gotham-city-article-1.969303#ixzz1cLjAXywo

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