Wednesday, August 3, 2011

It's snowing

Did I tell you they are filming the next Batman Movie- the Dark Knight- in Pittsburgh? Among the locations for the shoot, the building across from here (CMU's Biology department) is being used to stage a giant fight scene outside the Gotham City Courthouse . In mid winter. Even though the rest of us are standing around in shorts and flip-flops, it is snowing on the great columns and the fighters below.

I also got to see the New Batmobile- the Tumbler they are calling it- all three of them.

One of the buildings downtown had a Bat Signal broadcasting from it the other night. It's all very exciting.

Traffic is completely messed up, but mostly people are really excited that this project is being filmed here.

2 comments:

Noel said...

Movie people: "We need a dystopic urban hell hole to film our next gritty crime drama. We've chosen your town."

Pittsburgh: "Yay?"

-N

Sandlin said...

Pittsburgh: "You mean we can sit in traffic wondering if Christian Bale is throwing a fit somewhere nearby? Sold."