Dark Knight Rises Begins Filming, Two New Biopics, Development Arrested

The Dark Knight Rises started filming this week in the latest Gotham City stand-in: Pittsburgh, Pa. “When you're making a large-scale action film that has to showcase the vitality and size of a large American city," director Christopher Nolan told The Pittsburgh Business Times, "it also involves a certain amount of disruption to that city in order to make the action credible on screen.” The film will pay homage to some Steel City landmarks with a Heinz Field crowd scene at a football game, where mass destruction will likely take place. -Summit has acquired the rights to the story of Jose Vigoa, whose biography title explains it all: Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five »

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