They are filming the upcoming Batman movie near my perch. Instead of calling it Batman, the movie is listed as "Rory's First Kiss"...and were one to believe that title in fact had anything to do with the movie, said kiss seems to involve lots of cars all banged up and some random Gotham City street signs and police cars strewn about Randolph and Franklin. Whatever scene they are filming seems to be taking place in a parking ramp. Interesting if you're into that sort of thing. I think I can offiically say I'm a dyed in the wool city dweller because the prospect of a huge movie filming right by my house actually creates more headaches and annoyance than excitement. Nevertheless, I may roll out on the bike later tonight and see if I can't get a glimpse of the Joker or Batman milling around (note: movies are usually filmed very late in the night to minimize disturbances from ambient traffic and to take full advantage of the lighting...unless of course the scene takes place during the day, and even then its subjective).
Ideas for crashing the set of batman:
1. Fake an accident on the John Deere bike through the middle of the scene
2. Get in my wetsuit, put a skimask on and pretend to be Venom and accost any and all actor-ish looking people
3. Get a big lantern flashlight and make a bat symbol out of it and point it at people
4. Get in the car and play the batman theme song from the 60's VERY loudly throughout (man if we had the Spokeeasy bus this would rule)
5. Mill around outside and yell "Biff!" "Bang!" "POP!" "ZAAP!"
6. Dress drew up in a tuxedo, monacle and give him a cigarette holder, I'll put on white cover-alls and a bald cap, and Megan can put on a leotard with cards on it...and we'll show up and see if we can't get on the set as the Penguin, Egghead and Harley Quinn
WARNING TO CO-WORKERS: As an homage to the late great Vincent Price, I shall spend a day using egg puns (Egg-actly! Egg-cellent!). You won't know when or where, but soon....
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any chance of you maybe getting and posting pics from said movie set?
Posted by Mike F. | June 25, 2007 8:41 AM
Posted on June 25, 2007 08:41
Well my camera's screen is on the mend so that's why I didn't have the camera before. But I'm keeping it around in case I do see something cool (eg a Gotham City police car or something).
It also bears mentioning that the Batman crew works from 7pm to 6am. From what I've seen and been told (by the bartender @ Monks Pub which was blocked off for a chase scene), they typically don't film any real exterior shots until 2-3am. Prior to that, all you really get are the internal scenes, lighting the set (hence all the cool lit up buildings). From the sound of it, it is pretty rare that anything worth seeing would be in plain site until long after I've clocked out for the night.
But I'll keep an eye out!
Posted by Dave McAnally | June 25, 2007 1:18 PM
Posted on June 25, 2007 13:18