And another ver­sion here. Filmed from the Air­Fox heli­copter. The Chicago Tri­bune has a video from an alter­na­tive angle, this time with sound.

…wait­ing for the demolition:

MyFox­Chicago

Dis­cuss the feed and explo­sion in this topic. This topic will have all the lat­est up to date details and screen­shots about the chop­per and building’s status.

You can­not beat this angle. As this is live you may tune in to see the chop­per sit­ting still at it’s heli­port whilst it refu­els, etc: this is a nice lake shot. How­ever it has been encir­cling the build­ing to be demol­ished with some nice zoom­ing in and out which has revealed some prac­tice evac­u­a­tion scenes. As per usual, this live feed will obvi­ously con­tain spoilers.

EDIT: Live Feed now removed.

Hol­ly­wood Chicago have posted the lat­est time frame they have for the implosion:

Wednes­day, Aug. 29 or Thurs­day, Aug. 30 if Wednes­day is rained out. The time is “crit­i­cal for the cam­eras to get the best light­ing on the scene,” my source says. It is now sched­uled to be between 11:50 a.m. and 12:55 p.m. on Wednes­day or on Thurs­day if Wednes­day isn’t the day. My source says “heavy traf­fic due to street clo­sures” should be expected.

Rory_bat has returned from this week­ends Dark Knight film­ing fiasco and with him he has brought treats aplenty. We have 44 shots includ­ing close up pho­tog­ra­phy of Gary Old­man being directed, the memo­r­ial podium, gun­men on the roof, Gotham PD sleep­ing on the job and a horse’s backside.

In full motion video we have a scene cap­tured from the memo­r­ial ser­vice, it’s con­tents can be con­sid­ered a spoiler,

We also have a video that shows Gary Old­man prepar­ing for a scene on The Dark Knight set,

We’re back again, this time with an entirely dif­fer­ent stunt but once again involv­ing a heli­copter and a large build­ing. This comes via chgo­jobs.

Spec­tac­u­lar stunt for the Bat­man Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. The scene involves two heli­copters hov­er­ing next to the tower and five stunt­men that come fly­ing off the build­ing. This was filmed at a high rise under con­struc­tion near Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive.

At the start not a lot hap­pens, it all kicks off at about 40 sec­onds in:

I think this is the 8th post in two days: it’s all go at the moment. Any­way, MyFox­Chicago are back with another behind the scenes stunt video exclu­sive, this time it includes peo­ple being dan­gled from a helicopter.

Check it out here.

First up, Knightwing10-43 has kindly sent us a set of images from Sunday’s Dark Knight shoot­ing sched­ule along with a tasty video,

Here are pic­tures of film­ing today (8/26/07) which include Christo­pher Nolan with Gary Old­man in a Ford Excur­sion on a trailer under the “L” tracks on Wells Street, a video of the SUV with them film­ing, the stage used in the memo­r­ial (empty unfor­tu­nately), and a GTA sign (Gotham Tran­sit Authority).

Sec­ondly, thanks to Mel­rose Park Patti, we have some high qual­ity pic­tures from the Memo­r­ial service:

After the break check out a fas­ci­nat­ing gallery of the Chicago Brach’s build­ing donned up as a par­tic­u­larly impor­tant struc­ture. Find­ing out what this building’s pur­pose is will be a major spoiler, so find the pic­tures after the break.

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