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.