Memories of Adam West and Cesar Romero s Sixties hi-jinks are banished completely as the mood shifts from dark to downright grim.
![]() Its the venerable Criterion, 224 Piccadilly, W1, on the south side of Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London s West End. Its since reopened as Savini At Criterion, an offshoot of one of Milans most famous restaurants. The restaurant is also featured on-screen in Ridley Scott s A Good Year, with Russell Crowe, and in 2010 thriller London Boulevard, with Colin Farrell. The theatre is naturally the legendary Chicago Theatre, 175 North State Street. After briefly closing in 2006, its reopened with a smart revamp and an expanded menu. The lobby was surrounded by green screens so that views over the city could be digitally added later. The Dark Knight now looks down from the severe black slab of Willis Tower, 233 South Wacker Drive better known by its former name of Sears Tower occupying the block surrounded by Franklin Street and Wacker Drive, Adams Street and Jackson Boulevard. The tower moved from Gotham City to Metropolis to supply the interior of the Daily Planet office in Man Of Steel, but was back in Chicago in time to provide a safe mooring for the alien craft in Transformers: Age Of Extinction. The Farmiloe is also used in The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan s Inception and in David Cronenberg s Eastern Promises. While its sister station, Bankside, has found enormous success as the Tate Modern gallery, the previously more famous Battersea stands an empty shell though thats allowed it to be a frequent film location seen in Richard III, 1984 and more recently, Guy Ritchie s Rocknrolla and Terry Gilliam s The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus. Emergency services were flooded with panicked calls reporting a terrorist attack on the beloved landmark. If youve seen its demolition on YouTube, youll know that its no longer there. Several blocks of Lake Street, which runs east-west a block south of West Wacker Drive, from Upper Wacker Drive to State Street, were closed down for the scene. Check out the scars left on the bar top after repeated takes for the scene what on earth was cut from the final film. This 3,000 foot pier, built in 1916 when Lake Michigan was used for commercial shipping, fell into decline, until major renovations in 1976. The pier entrance is on Streeter Drive at 600 East Grand Avenue near lake Shore Drive just north of the Chicago River. It previously featured as an Atlantic City location in Martin Scorsese s The Color of Money and more recently in Divergent. ![]()
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