Will The Dark Knight Rises "Occupy Wall Street"?

Will The Dark Knight Rises "Occupy Wall Street"?

Word is that when Christopher Nolan moves production on his Batman threequel to New York at the end of the month he will be incorporating the Wall Street protests into the movie! Click for the details..

By MarkCassidy - Oct 18, 2011 04:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Batman
Source: LA Times

Occupy Wall Street is a movement that began 30 days ago in Lower Manhattan and has spread to many other cities. Hell it's spread to Ireland! If I want to go buy comics I currently have to navigate past "Occupy Dame Street". Anyway, the movement seeks to bring attention to banking deregulation, Wall Street bonuses and other practices that supporters say threaten the prospects of the working- and middle class. And director Christopher Nolan may be using this as a backdrop for scenes in TDKR.



From The LA Times..

Under its code name "Magnus Rex," the Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures production will arrive in the nation's biggest city for 14 days starting Oct. 29, according to a casting notice recently issued by producers. And, according to a person briefed on actors’ schedules who requested anonymity because production details were being kept confidential, cast members have been told the shoot could include scenes shot at the Occupy Wall Street protests.

.. While the person who’d been told of the plans said the protests could figure into the production, they said that doesn't mean they will be included in the storyline.


Basically should Nolan film there he wouldn't alter the script, but simply use the protest as a backdrop for something that already exists in the story. Details on what exactly is being shot in New York remains a mystery, of course. But according to the casting call, "interested actors should have "military and/or law enforcement training/experience, weapons training, and/or martial arts training."




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Dynamo
Dynamo - 10/18/2011, 4:57 AM
We did hear a rumour about there being a scene involving wall street a while back.
ComicBuzz
ComicBuzz - 10/18/2011, 5:01 AM
Yea this news was around a few days ago - would be interesting to see if they use the protests to their own ends or if they acknowledge the protest for what it is.
Dynamo
Dynamo - 10/18/2011, 5:04 AM
@kevberg
How is it golrification if they're in the movie?
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 10/18/2011, 5:06 AM
I'm not American so I have no vested interest in these protests but from what I can see they are just people that have had enough and are trying to bring about change for the better. Not "loons". I say more power to em and i hope they can make a difference. Occupy Dame St is growing too..but I'm too cold to go stand with em:)
Dynamo
Dynamo - 10/18/2011, 5:10 AM
@kevberg
I'm not sure what the protests are about, but if he is going to use them I'd doubt it'd be more than just a bunch of people standing in for wideshots for a prostest in Gotham.
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:14 AM
@kevberg ... you should do you're homework. the large investment banks and mortgage lenders put this economy in a tailspin. obama didn't cause it. in fact, he probably staved off a depression. do your research before you begin spouting your right wing crap. it takes at least 5 years to come out of a recession, let alone a near-depression.

it's irrelevant to the movie business anyway.
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:15 AM
and obama didn't give the bailouts. Bush did. i realize facts aren't your strong suit but sheesh.
ZombieOverEasy
ZombieOverEasy - 10/18/2011, 5:20 AM
I stood with some of those "Loons" about a week ago in Dayton, Ohio. I've never felt so American, it's moving to know that you're standing up for something and I think it's a disgrace to call them "Loons". You may disagree with what they're standing for, but standing up for what you believe in is what this country is about, if it makes you a "Loon", then I call me crazy. I hope Nolan "glorifies" the shit out of the protesters and I hope it ruins the film for you kevsperg.
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:20 AM
what's really twisted is that history shows quite clearly and unequivocally that greater regulation could have prevented this and the republicans are blocking any attempts to ratchet up regulation to prevent this from happening again.

it's not that corporations are bad, they just by their nature don't worry about things like systemic risk or national interest --they have to answer to their shareholders and worry about profit only. again, that's just their nature, it's not a good or evil thing. but the teabagger (sorry tea, here it is a negative word) fruitcakes will continue to vote against their interests, as they get poorer and poorer as a result of pro-corporate policies, and their kids medical and college costs keep going up and up and up.
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:23 AM
kevberg -- excuse me officer, i may have been speeding, but why didn't you pull over the 5 cars ahead of me that were speeding? why the selectivism (sic)?

police officer -- and this means you didn't something wrong because what exactly?

metaphors, they are used to help you understand something.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 10/18/2011, 5:23 AM
Underworld, it HAS reached my city. As I said I am planning on going to stand with em when the weather gets a bit nicer..;)
ZombieOverEasy
ZombieOverEasy - 10/18/2011, 5:27 AM
@kevberg You obviously don't have an understanding of basic economics. George Clooney and LeBron James don't effect how our economy works.

Banks effect our economy, Wallstreet effects our economy.

Also it's not JUST college kids or hippies. There are old, young, poor, rich, veterans, moms, dads...There's a little bit of everything at the protests. Not everyone is standing out there for 30 days with no jobs either, you sound incredibly stupid when you keep saying this. People come and go, I went on a day when I didn't have to work and I plan on going to another protest soon as I have the free time and there are many more just like me.

@brewtownpsych No, the bailouts weren't JUST Bush. Obama passed a few too. Just as much his fault as it was Bush's.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 10/18/2011, 5:28 AM
Dublin. They look pretty organized too..

brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:29 AM
the bailout was bush in 2008 during Bush. and several before that. Not sure what you are talking about. in any event, the economy went into a complete tailspin after the bush administration let wall street fail. so the protests are about the financial system causing an economic collapse american people have no control over. money has completely purchased washington in ay event, face it.

And Dodd Frank hasn't been fully implemented yet due to republican obstruction and the other thing you said wasn't true either, dodd frank is about regulating the system so it doesn't happen again, not about bailouts.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 10/18/2011, 5:30 AM
haha. Nah I am actually going in for a while today, I need to buy comics anyway and they are right beside the street. It's nowhere near as big a movement here, maybe 200 people at max.
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:31 AM
actually the key event was when lehman brothers was left to fail on supposed "free market principles", right after that point the markets took a dive. ALL BUSH.

not that it matters really who it is under thought Obama is actually trying to regulate the thing so it doesn't happen again while the Republicans do NOTHING, literally so Obama can be seen as a failure. anyway, i don't think it matters to the protesters who in government is responsible b/c the corporations own the government anyway, that's the real problem.
ZombieOverEasy
ZombieOverEasy - 10/18/2011, 5:32 AM
@kevberg I'm not saying this isn't Obama's fault (although it's far from JUST his fault), just that some of your statements seem really ill-informed.

Seems like you're trying to point to some conspiracy? WTF? YEA...the protesters are the "loons"...

I've got better things to do than have a political debate in the comments section of a comic book movie website.

@tea where's some boobs, man?
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:35 AM
kevber,

fannie and freddie are private corporations by the way. and that just argues for more regulation anyway.

and fannie and freddie weren't the cause, it was the UNREGULATED mortgage-backed securities on the books of the investment banks that because of their unregulated statues, were allowed to carry worthless assets on their books and then when the assets were called on, they were useless, b/c of the bubble.

wow, you will buy any story the republicans put out. the corporations cased the collapse of the world economy and they have you convinced that its your fault! lol!@#!@#!@#!@
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:36 AM
Obama's fault!@#@!#? wtf? the economy tanked way before he took office!!! and it takes at least 5 years to recover, according to any economist. and in any event, the congress passes budgets, NOT THE PRESIDENT. okay, enuff with the ill-informed.
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:38 AM
the problems is clearly de-regulated mortgage backed securities and the massive amounts these banks and financial institutions were clearly encouraged to carry on their books due to the race for massive profits. having these things regulated would have completely averted the problem. just look into it.
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/18/2011, 5:40 AM
lots of "bubbles" happen all the time, the tech bubble, etc. yes there was a bubble in the housing market, but that wasn't the cause. it was the unregulated securities based on the bubble.

even if what you and rush limbaugh say were true, it just argues for more regulation! (and now, the banks were NOT forced to make risky loans. all that happen is that freddie and fannie agreed to take riskly loans. the banks didn't need to make them! duh.
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