Batman
Occupies Wall Street: ‘Dark Knight’ Films Fight Scene
Downtown
Gotham
Police in shootout with bad guys in Finance District
BY Jonathan Lemire & Kim Stack
NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS
The
latest Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" was filming at
Wall Street & Williams Street in New York City on
Saturday.
Mathew
Modine strikes a pose in his costume on set.
Violence descended on Wall Street Saturday - but,
thankfully, Batman was there to save the day.
Shots rang out at the corner of Wall and William Sts. -
just blocks from the Zuccotti Park protests — but the
gunfire was just part of the filming of “The Dark Knight
Rises,” the latest film starring the Caped Crusader.
The movie, which is set to be released next summer, set up
shop downtown and filmed a spectacular action scene.
Gotham City cops and a group of rebels clashed on the
street, exchanging fake gunfire at the behest of an
assistant director.
"Disperse, disperse now or you will be fired upon," the
assistant shouted, as “Dark Knight” director Christopher
Nolan looked on.
Fake snow and thick smoke choked the air as the Gotham cops
tried to fight off the ragamuffin mob. Several of the cops
fell over during the fight, apparently wounded or killed.
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More than 1,000 extras clogged the Financial District’s
streets, many of them dressed in grungy attire that would
not have looked out of place among the Occupy Wall Street
protestors.
The scene was filmed over and over in front of scores of
onlookers eager to catch a glimpse of the action and “Dark
Knight” star Christian Bale, who was due on set late in the
day.
“The Dark Knight Rises,” the third Batman movie helmed by
Nolan, has been filming downtown for several days and is
expected to shoot in the city for another two weeks,
according to an official at the Mayor's Office of Film,
Theater and Broadcasting.
Signs have billed the production as “Magnus Rex” in a
feeble effort to keep the shooting a secret, but the
presence of three camouflaged Batmobile-style tanks
provided a clue as to which blockbuster was being filmed.
Signs
were posted in the area warning residents that fake gunfire
was being used in the scene. The shots are much quieter
than real gunfire, according to the official from the
mayor’s office.
The movie, which also stars Anne Hathaway, Joseph
Gordon—Levitt and Tom Hardy, has also filmed in Pittsburgh
and Newark.
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