We’ve got some images of Batman (Christian Bale) and Bane (Tom Hardy) rehearsing a fight scene for The Dark Knight Rises. You can see director Christopher Nolan in one pic. Then when the snow starts to fall, it would appear that the cameras are rolling and they’re shooting the scene.  I don’t think they give too much away.

I find it amusing that they’ve got falling snow and the streets have little piles of it and yet there are green plants in the shot. I can only assume they’ll take those out in post. One of the local tv news stations reported that residents of a neighborhood where filming took place were asked to remove the flowers from their yards. I’m sure they were compensated for the loss of plant life.

Hardy, who plays the genetically enhanced super-villain Bane, had this to say to Total Film with reference to the mask his character wears:  “Any time you put something over your face, you’re going to adopt a personality and a physicality that has nothing to do with acting. It allows a performance to be free.”
Filming in and around Pittsburgh continues until the end of August. In the meantime it’s bringing much needed revenue to and creating jobs for the local economy. Helping to keep economically hard-hit areas afloat is reason enough to see The Dark Knight Rises when it comes out in July 2012, although Christian Bale and Tom Hardy certainly sweeten the deal.