Well, I had to take a brief time out from the internet this past week, meaning the site didn’t have its regular 2 posts-a-day update. Sorry about that folks. But it is now time to get back to business.
A little late, Hollywood Chicago had the week’s street closure schedule (and hence filming schedule?). What still may be relevant is this information:
On Sunday, July 15
Upper Wacker (from Van Buren to Adams) 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Jackson (from Canal to Franklin) 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Lower Wacker (from Harrison to Michigan) from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.
SuperHeroHype continues to wade in with more and more scooper set reports, here’s their latest stock:
First Report:
Hey guys, I live in the suburbs outside of Chicago and I decided to check out the filming last night due to that awesome detailed scoop. Anyway, I made it downtown and found TDK filming. I came away with some really exciting information, but was not allowed to take any pictures. They were filming a chase scene involving garbage trucks and GPD, but more interestingly apparently they’ve been working on this chase scene for about 25 days and are saying that it will outdo the 15 minute highway scene in the Matrix Reloaded. Well, that’s all I got last night, I’m going back tonight to because they are apparently blowing up a fire truck and/or dumping a car in the river. I’ll try harder to get pictures this time.
Second Report:
They seem to have a whole set up over by the WGN studios on Addison. As I walked out of the building I saw a ton of white semi trailers with RFK all over them. I also managed to get a photo of the Batpod stored in a little white trailer with a white pick up on the front. I think they had some set building in a wharehouse nearby too. There was lots of guys building some big wooden sections. I also saw a guy riding a red and white scooter that was almost child sized.
They also posted some of The Dark Knight’s tie-ins, including an animé style feature set between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, a video game, lots of new products and comic book adaptation of the film by DC comics.
In other news, Christian Bale appeared on Charlie Rose, to promote Rescue Dawn:
It’s now the question of the burden and toll of what he’s doing, the question can this be a finite endeavour. Is this something that has an end? Can he quit and have an ordinary life? The kind of manic intensity someone has to have to maintain the passion and the anger that they felt as a child, takes an effort after awhile, to keep doing that. At some point, you have to exorcise your demons. That’s what I love about Batman. There’s so much that is about character. — Newsday