The Dark Knight Returns to the Cardington Airship Sheds

Posted on Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 1:54 pm by TeddyBlass

There has been much speculation as to where The Dark Knight Rises will be filming when it starts production in 2011; New Orleans being the major rumor, with some sites even going as far as to “confirm” that to be true. However, not too long ago our pals over at Hero Complex sent out a tweet officially killing that rumor, denouncing it as a “total myth.” With the New Orleans filming theories officially in a casket, we are once again left with the question; Where will The Dark Knight Rises be filming?

The answer seems simple because it is. Christopher Nolan’s last installment in his Batman saga will make its return to the Cardington airship sheds in Bedfordshire, England. Both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight filmed in the enormous hangers there, as did Nolan’s most recent cinematic outing, Inception. According to Variety, Chris and team will be returning to the United Kingdom to finish the Batman story, as well as to take advantage of the tax credits offered there. The airship sheds were home to many vast sets in the series, including ‘the narrows’ and the batcave. Perhaps a new batcave will be one of the new sets built inside the hangers? One can hope.

It’s probably safe to assume that production will also return to Chicago, the real life American city that often doubled for Gotham in Nolan’s films. Filming isn’t said to begin until May of next year, but Variety‘s David S. Cohen sent out a funny tweet last night saying that Nolan told him that his script is due tomorrow (Monday) or else he’s in big trouble! Nolan was no doubt being tongue-in-cheek, but nonetheless I am a tiny bit surprised the script is demanded of him. Now all we need is someone to tell us what is in it! I guess we’ll just have to wait, but I suppose an official announcement from Warner Bros. could crop up in the next month or so. Until then…

Thanks to Shindler2010 in the forums for the tip.

Tags: Bedfordshire, Christopher Nolan, Hero Complex, New Orleans, The Dark Knight Rises
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BatMotor

The Dark Knight Returns?????
Jamie

Cool
http://www.nolanfans.com TeddyBlass

It’s a play on words, silly. If I was saying that was the title of the film, my article title would be very poorly worded.
the special one

Alright, good inside info
Chee

Hahah, nice title.
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samuel

Whenever I’m at England again I must visit there, it seems pretty close to London. Is there a way to enter the sheds themselves? I understand it’s an abandoned RAF air field.
Thanks.
Hannah

This is awesome. I live about ten minutes from there, so I’ll be driving past there a lot more often now.

samuel, it’s about 2 hours from London and I don’t think they’re open to the public, as they’re both still in use. Shed 1 still houses some airships and Shed 2 is leased for films and things.
http://kanjisheik.blogspot.com kanjisheik

Shouldn’t “non-the-less” be spelt as “nonetheless” instead?
Matt

Hannah you are so lucky, I would love to have a big movie like this to have some work done close to where I live. Nice to see that we shouldn’t be too far away from some big TDKR information, and Inception releases in the states Tuesday.
http://nevermindpopfilm.blogspot.com Fitz

Looking forward to production. Can’t wait to see Bale don the cowl again.
JimmyFraska

I’m hoping for the batcave, and hopefully a return to Arkham asylum.
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