Apparently, Batman Doesn’t Need a Boozy, Chain-Smoking Sidekick Who Looks Like Ozzy Osbourne
With its rivers, overlooks, funiculars, architecturally-distinctive ethnic neighborhoods and miniature-megalopolis skyline, Pittsburgh gets routinely tapped to serve as the cinematic stunt-double for other, more expensive locations. So it’s not totally surprising — but still kind of geeky-cool — that Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises will be filming some sequences here. We won’t be subbing for Gotham, but it’s satisfying enough just to be considered sufficiently strange to fit into Nolan’s idiosyncratic visual universe:
Pittsburgh is an old, oft-misrepresented, and deeply weird city. With its streets that twist about and dead-end without warning, the city’s organizing principle is nonsense. You don’t vacation in Pittsburgh unless you have family or friends there, and even then you need every breadcrumb trail at your disposal to navigate in the post-industrial cacophony of ethnicities and aesthetics.
Casting for extras begins tomorrow, but I’m not really enthused about my options:
Casting directors are looking for individuals to play prisoners/thugs, guards, police officers, business men and women and sports fans.
That pretty much limits me to “prisoner/thug” — which is right up my alley, sure. But it’s a popular look in this town, and there’s gonna be a hell of a lot of competition.
Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 06/10/11 at 09:05 PM • Permalink
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