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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We’ve recently been drawn to this impres­sive post at the Super­Hero­Hype forums by ChicageauxTiger:

This was the gen­eral scene of the shoot:

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A few weeks ago we reported about an upcom­ing and expen­sive action event — the implo­sion of Brach Candy fac­tory site. The ever reli­able Hol­ly­wood Chicago are back with more juicy gos­sip con­cern­ing the nature of the event and most impor­tantly — a date.

The new date is Thurs­day, Aug. 30. It is sched­uled to hap­pen between 10:30 a.m. and noon.

This will be two build­ings. The larger build­ing is to be filled with flam­ma­ble liq­uids and the sec­ond smaller, four-story build­ing will be imploded. This is the last big stunt for the film to be shot.

And to relay the appended infor­ma­tion, the address of this site is 401 N. Cicero Ave. in Chicago::

HC’s lat­est post also dis­closes the nature of this build­ing. See­ing the pic­ture will reveal the spoiler, fol­low this dan­ger­ous link to con­tinue.

This shoot­ing event was a big occa­sion, and as expected, a lot of peo­ple were there to take pic­tures. Yippee. One of the best col­lec­tions of pic­tures of The Dark Knight Memo­r­ial ser­vice comes from flickr user kedziers in his Gotham City set.

Here are a few select and super high res­o­lu­tion (2mb each) pic­tures pro­vided under the Cre­ative Com­mons license that I have picked out, fol­lowed by the tra­di­tional flickr slide-show gallery:

Our sec­ond set comes from tiffanyjbt. Here we can see Chris­t­ian Bale, as Bruce Wayne, rid­ing a Ducati:

A third col­lec­tion comes from nailtechnician’s efforts:

You can find even more here and we’ll prob­a­bly keep updat­ing this post with more and more links as they come in.

Let’s get some old videos in here too whilst I am at it — these show the street level fire and a heli­copter fly-by:

First up, Lon­nie set in this nice lit­tle spoiler-filled report from August 25th:

Patti later wrote to con­firm this and give a few more inter­est­ing details:

As per usual, run the mouse over the area above to view the spoilers.