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.

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).

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:

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.

Speak­ing at the Hol­ly­wood and Game sum­mit keynote, Thomas Tull (Leg­endary Pic­tures Chair­man) pro­vided some rest-bite, ensur­ing us that the movie will be dealt with as nec­es­sary. He begins,

“We’re doing World of War­craft, and mak­ing it into a movie. I have very strong feel­ings — from the movie side — that mak­ing movies based on games just because they sold well is a really bad idea. There’ve been some like that that weren’t up to snuff just out of the gate. It doesn’t mat­ter to us if it’s based on a graphic novel like [Frank Miller’s] 300, or a TV show – if there’s a great uni­verse and story, that’s what’s inter­est­ing to us.”

In the fol­low­ing  Ques­tion and Answer ses­sion Tull stated that Leg­endary and Bliz­zard are work­ing very closely together to get the sto­ry­line per­fect by pin­point­ing what makes up the essence of the War­craft universe:

“I think some of the stuff that makes a game trans­late well into a movie is a good story. If there’s a lore, if there’s a road and story and a world that’s been cre­ated, and char­ac­ters that are inter­est­ing in a way that’s more than just point and shoot. You have to look at it and not make a nov­elty out of it. Not just look at sales records. Bliz­zard plays a very impor­tant role in this process. If you’ve cre­ated a game, be it Halo, Gears Of War, or War­craft [each being trans­formed into a movie] — you came up with some­thing that’s com­pelling enough to res­onate with a huge num­ber of peo­ple. There has to be a trust, and you have to at some point hand over the baton to peo­ple who know how to make films.”

“We are work­ing very closely with the design­ers and writ­ers, and they’re very involved. I think on the big­ger [films] you have to have that. They’re sit­ting right there at the table with us as we develop the story and the script, and I think we’re nail­ing the story and what’s com­pelling about it.”

Via Gama­su­tra where you can find more news from the Hol­ly­wood and Game summit.

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:

Sin­ga­porean actor Ng Chin Han, well known in his local arts scene but rel­a­tively unknown else­where, has got his first big break in The Dark Knight, so Chan­nel News Asia reports.

He had this to say about the inter­view process:
“The scripts that they let you read for the audi­tions are not the scripts for the exact film movie because everything’s so top secret. You get scripts that are printed on spe­cial paper that can­not be pho­to­copied, there are invis­i­ble water­marks, all kinds of things. You feel like a spy in a James Bond movie when you are look­ing at these scripts.” 

The char­ac­ter that Ng Chin Han will be play­ing has not been announced.

One par­tic­u­lar video has been doing the rounds as of late, this is the very well FAN pro­duced trailer by the infa­mous WormyT. This means it is FAKE, just to make that clear. The news head­line and Joker footage has been edited painstak­ingly frame by frame.