by mtuandrew
markhb wrote:Looking at the slideshow in the DFP article, I just had a terrific idea. I'm not sure how many here are aware of this, but the sequel to Man of Steel, the recent Superman movie, is also going to include Batman. They've already essentially announced that in this film, the part of Metropolis will be played by Chicago, and the role of Gotham City will be played by Detroit (it's also doing most of its sound-stage photography in the Wolverine State as well). My thought was this: imagine that there's a scene set in the train station in Gotham, and, of course, they use MCS as the set. The kicker is, imagine that MCS, in its current, crumbling, graffiti-covered condition, is the actual working Gotham train station. (IOW, picture it as if all that was done to MCS was to sweep up the floor and turn on some lights, and they then immediately reopened for Amtrak service.) Granted, it's not exactly promoting Detroit, but it seems like a decent establishing shot for a moodily-built city whose only bright spot is a billionaire who leaps from rooftops while dressed as a bat. (Disclaimer: author has been a hardcore Batman fan since elementary school.)I'm sure we could scrape up a mixed bag of tattered mid-1970s commuter railcars to use for that movie, and a smoky F40PH to lead.