Holy Bat-Update! Set Reports Galore
Reports from the set of Batman Begins are pouring in and there's news of the film from Wizard-World in Chicago.
Warning: Spoilers
Batman Begins is filming in Chicago and there are many online set reports from the film.
Here's a sampling:- Writer David Goyer mentions a bit about the film right here.
- Goyer and director Chris Nolan brought new clips to Wizard World Chicago last weekend. Descriptions of the footage can be found here, here and here.
- Highlights of the footage include: A look at the genesis of Batman's costume; Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne and Morgan Freeman's Lucius Fox driving a khaki/camouflage-colored version of the prototype vehicle that will become the Batmobile. Wayne grins and asks, "Does it come in back?"; Bruce's fighting training; a brief shot of the Scarecrow in his mask; Batman, on fire, falling from three stories or so in the air; a thug saying, "Where are you?" and the camera pulls away to show an upside-down Batman behind him, saying "Here."
- More info on the Wizard World footage can be found here.
- A shot of Bale and co-star Gary Oldman (Jim Gordon) from U.S. Weekly appears below this article.
- A Superhero Hype scooper writes: "Well, it's about 11:20pm and I just got back from the filming at the Amstutz in Waukegan. They shot a pretty cool chase scene involving the tumbler weaving in and out of traffic with a helicopter's spotlight chasing it. Since I was only there for half an hour, that was really the only action I saw. The copter had 'POLICE' written on it and kept going back and forth down the empty highway and around the area while shining the spotlight all over the place. The area around the highway is pretty much all industrial with a Metra train station. There was train parked at the station with all of it's interior lights on and it was there the whole time."
- Another source added: "Went Downtown again last night just after dark. A scene was being shot over the Chicago River at the Columbus Avenue Bridge involving a Gotham Police helicopter. The helicopter came down extremely low, moving from one point to another and spotlighting the bridge. It appeared to be searching for something. There was a car sitting in the southbound lane that started to creep forward slowly. All of a sudden, a dark vehicle streaked across the bridge in the northbound lane. We had been restricted to viewing from the Michigan Avenue bridge so we were pretty far off, but I was watching with binoculars and am pretty certain that it was the Batmobile. Of course it was...what else would it be?!"
- GameCube Europe wrote about the upcoming game based on the film here.
- Footage from one of the chases can be found here and here.
- The Daily Southtown has an article about filming here.
- New pictures of the Tumbler being chased by police cars can be found here.
- And more set reports -- here, here, here, here, here, and here.
