Batman Won't Join The Occupy Wall Street Cause In NYC

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 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. Scenes of the mob crowding the streets would have been well represented by the Wall Street protests but unfortunately this won't be the case.

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.

What do you think? Should Nolan have used the OWS Protest as part of the backdrop of TDKR?