According to various news sources (and a recent casting call), The Dark Knight Rises is scheduled to film on Wall Street in NYC, just two blocks from the Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park, on Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October 30 and again on Saturday, November 5 and Sunday, November 6.
The bulk of the movie has already been shot in India, the U.K., Pittsburgh, and most recently, Los Angeles, but the few final scenes, which will be completed in NYC and Newark, NJ by November 11, are crucial to the movie and need to go off without a hitch.
Despite the protests, both the city and the movie’s production company, Warner Brothers, have said that they believe everything will go well with the downtown shoot.
“As with any major motion picture, we are working with the studio and relevant city agencies to ensure that the production goes smoothly,” the Mayor’s Office said. “There are thousands of jobs attached to the production, and we are thrilled those jobs and this production are in New York.”
Suzanne Fritz, a Warner Brothers spokeswoman, added, “We are confident, based on our relationship with the city and our months of prep work, that things will go smoothly for everyone involved.”
It will be interesting to see the protestors reaction to the scenes which will be set in “a city besieged by crime and corruption”, filled with “thugs and mercenaries,” as well as police officers, SWAT members and soldiers of course.
Though it’s an unlikely scenario, there are also rumors that the film’s director Christopher Nolan, in a case of if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, might actually use some Zuccotti Park protestors in the movie.
With an omnipresent police presence at Zuccotti Park now, we can’t imagine there will be any trouble once filming begins and security is heightened, we’re guessing they’ll have a bigger problem trying to keep the paparazzi away then they will with any of the protestors.
If you check out The Dark Knight Rises shoot on Wall Street, let us know about it at olv@onlocationvacations.com!
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