Firstly, here are the excerpts from
Chicago Business' report on the news that Zack Snyder's
Superman: The Man of Steel is set to film the Smallville based scenes there, and possibly more.
Superman is coming to Chicago this summer, a huge boost for the city's hopes to be a moviemaking superpower. Filming of Warner Bros. Pictures' next Superman movie will take place in the Chicago area over two or three months starting in August, industry sources tell Crain's, with production centered in far west suburban Plano.
"It would be a tremendous windfall for us," says Richard Moskal, director of the Chicago Film Office. He can't confirm Warner Bros.' plans but says such a film "showcases a city well to audiences and draws the attention of other producers."
While the plot and other details of 'Superman: Man of Steel' have been kept super-secret, the first in a refreshed series would logically focus on Superman's early years in the Kansas town of Smallville, which would explain semi-rural Plano as the setting for much of the filming.
Even more interesting though, was what the site says about
The Dark Knight Rises. While we already know that it's likely Christopher Nolan will not be shooting the movies Gotham set scenes in Chicago, it looks like the film might have an even more international feel than we first thought.
Filming 'The Dark Knight Rises' here is "not looking likely," Mr. Moskal says. "The story line is evolving beyond Gotham City. But from Warner Bros.' perspective, and Chris Nolan himself told me, they were thrilled with how things went here in Chicago."
Evolving beyond Gotham? The character of Batman is of course best known for his relationship with the fictional DC city, so I find it hard to imagine it not being the focus in
The Dark Knight Rises. However, a few other locations (New Orleans for example) have already been rumored to be filling in as the city this time around so I doubt we have too much to worry about! Be sure to speculate and share your thoughts in the usual place!