By Larry Yepez Jr.
Occupy Wall Street protestors hoping to be immortalized in Chris Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight Rises’ might be disappointed when they find out that Batman will NOT be joining their cause.

Ever since Nolan’s finale to the Batman trilogy stopped shooting on location in Pittsburgh, the buzz on The Dark Knight Rises has been very quiet in anticipation to the supposed shoot in where Batman was gonna crash the Occupy Wall Street manifestation.
Well that silence is going to end very soon, as Nolan and his production team are setting up shop in streets of New York City for a two-week shoot. However, the dedicated protesters of Occupy Wall Street will NOT be getting their five minutes of fame in TDKR. A Warner Bros. rep said that there are no plans to shoot in Zuccotti Park, the home base for the OWS movement. After an open casting call for NYC extras for the project hit the web, rumors swirled that the project could be filming very close to, if not directly inZuccotti Park.
The rumor was that Nolan would use the OWS protests as a backdrop for scenes of Gotham City in the midst of chaos, but this will in fact NOT be the case. Even though all the leaked set photos and videos from Dark Knight Rises have painted a story where Gotham finds itself under the assault of the bad guys, with the good citizens on the streets in protest of the crime and corruption that has seized their city; scenes of the mob crowding the streets would have been well represented by the Wall Street protests and would’ve been a delicious slice of irony, to throw at the current situation we are living, but unfortunately this won't be so.
The eagerly-anticipated film - which has gone under the code name Magnus Rex is listed as a current production by The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Film Theatre & Broadcasting — and had been scheduled to shoot in NYC months before the OWS uprising began.
So, while OWS and its Zuccotti Park residents may not be immortalized in the comic book follow-up, there’s still plenty of interest elsewhere in catching the social, financial and political movement on film. MTVannounced yesterday that they will air an episode of their documentary series True Life featuring three young people involved in Occupy Wall Street in New York City.
What do you think? Should Nolan have used the OWS Protest as part of the backdrop of TDKR?

Occupy Wall Street protestors hoping to be immortalized in Chris Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight Rises’ might be disappointed when they find out that Batman will NOT be joining their cause.

Ever since Christopher Nolan’s finale to the Batman trilogy stopped shooting on location in Pittsburgh, the buzz on The Dark Knight Rises has been very quiet in anticipation to the supposed shoot in where Batman was gonna crash the Occupy Wall Street Manifestation.

Well that silence is going to end very soon, as Nolan and his production team are setting up shop in streets of New York City for a two-week shoot. However, the dedicated protesters of Occupy Wall Street will NOT be getting their five minutes of fame in TDKR. A Warner Bros. rep said that there are no plans to shoot in Zuccotti Park, the home base for the OWS movement. After an open casting call for NYC extras for the project hit the web, rumors swirled that the project could be filming very close to, if not directly in, Zuccotti Park.

The rumor was that Nolan would use the OWS protests as a backdrop for scenes of Gotham City in the midst of chaos, but this will in fact NOT be the case. Even though all the leaked set photos and videos from Dark Knight Rises have painted a story where Gotham finds itself under the assault of the bad guys, with the good citizens on the streets in protest of the crime and corruption that has seized their city; scenes of the mob crowding the streets would have been well represented by the Wall Street protests and would’ve been a delicious slice of irony, to throw at the current situation we are living, but unfortunately this won't be so.

The eagerly-anticipated film - which has gone under the code name Magnus Rex is listed as a current production by The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Film Theatre & Broadcasting — and had been scheduled to shoot in NYC months before the OWS uprising began.


So, while OWS and its Zuccotti Park residents may not be immortalized in the comic book follow-up, there’s still plenty of interest elsewhere in catching the social, financial and political movement on film. MTV announced yesterday that they will air an episode of their documentary series True Life featuring three young people involved in Occupy Wall Street in New York City.