… and there is no bet­ter way to mark it than with a dented, busted up Lam­borgh­ini. A Mur­cielago (which trans­lates to Bat) to be precise.

Pic­tures thanks to rory_bat; he is now head­ing back to the East Coast, whilst Batman’s film­ing sched­ule takes them to Eng­land. Film­ing is set to con­tinue until November.

Want to know how that car ended up in the mess it did? Read the rest of this entry »

Super­Hero­Hype recently sat down with Mor­gan Free­man to talk Dark Knight (and Wanted):

CS/SHH!: What were your expe­ri­ences like work­ing on the Bat­man sequel?
Free­man: The sequel. Alec Guin­ness remarked one time that he made more money on those two [Star Wars] movies that he was just fea­tured in than he’d made in his whole career and had lit­tle or noth­ing to do. That’s what it’s like.

CS/SHH!: Have you fin­ished your part?
Free­man: I haven’t fin­ished. I’ve got one more day. I travel all the way to Hong Kong to do it.

Whilst at the other end of the inter­net spec­trum Aint it Cool’s Capone met Chris­t­ian Bale. It’s an inter­est­ing read with this lit­tle detail com­ing at the end of it,

Q: Are you almost done film­ing [DARK KNIGHT]? How much longer are you going to be work­ing on it?
B: No, we’re going until Novem­ber. It’s a seven-month shoot.

After the big explo­sion, lit­tle else can impress us now, how­ever film­ing con­tin­ued for at least one more day in Chicago, with Bruce Wayne’s Lam­borgh­ini being spot­ted kit­ted up and dri­ving around. Two sets of pic­tures are out there, the first comes via draperyfalls,

Sec­ondly, chgo­jobs had this pull right out in front of him:

He car­ried on to fol­low the action and cap­tured this video:

Also, CNN have a new explo­sive video.

Lots of footage and reports from the scene, I thought I would pro­vide a sec­ond post with some alter­nate angles and stun­ning photography.

Firstly, City Eyes has cap­tured some beau­ti­ful shots of the explosion:

Check out more of his pho­tog­ra­phy at either his blog or his flickr gallery. (Pre demo­li­tion pic­tures)

And here is another video from the ground:

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,