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No more Batman: next 'Dark Knight' ditches Chicago
04/06/2011 10:00 PM
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After filming huge parts of the two most recent blockbuster Batman movies in Chicago, Warner Bros. is skipping town for the last movie in the trilogy — for Pittsburgh.
The Chicago Tribune reports that director Christopher Nolan’s next film, The Dark Knight Rises, will leave despite Chicago’s more favorable tax incentives.
Nolan’s first two films in the series, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, filmed scenes atop Chicago skyscrapers, chases on Lower Wacker Drive, and famously flipped a truck on LaSalle Street.
It’s hard to imagine Nolan’s Gotham without those iconic angles, and the cash Chicago’s missing out on is notable. The Chicago Film Office’s Richard Moskal said the first two movies combined brought more than $50 million into Chicago’s economy.
But there could be a steel — er, silver — lining. Another super-film Nolan’s working on with Warner Bros, Superman: Man of Steel, is rumored to be shooting in Chicago around the same time, heroically replacing the lost bat-revenue.