As somebody from the greater Chicagoland area, I’ll reiterate that I’m still rather sore about how Gotham’s been moved from the Windy City to Pittsburgh for DARK KNIGHT RISES' shooting. I can think of few big blockbuster tentpoles (let alone superhero flicks) where the actual location’s felt as crucial to the feel of the movie. DARK OF THE MOON was some consolation (even if they did double the Chi for seemingly every other major American city, too,) but I’ll take some respite in this spy report from IO9 which seems to confirm that the city’s now playing Metropolis, instead. Interestingly enough, as these photos would evidence, the Chicago Board of Trade’s doubling for the Planet after previously pulling duty as Wayne Tower in the first two BATMAN flicks.
== TEASER ==CBM actually has some photos of the players in action in front of the Board of Trade. If you look real close, you can see Henry Cavill, Amy Adams and Laurence Fishburne as Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Perry White respectively. I speculated that the gobs of leaks off THE AVENGERS and DARK KNIGHT RISES sets may have been a result of film productions being far less common in Pitsburg and Cleveland as opposed to Chicago (so security would have less experience curtailing spies.) The fact that these aren’t as right up in the face of the actors might be evidence to support that crackpot theory.
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