Filming on
The Dark Knight Rises officially kicked off in Jodhpur, India today and wouldn't ya know it, already there's a possible
huge set snapped spoiler making the rounds! Posted on
Gautam Valluri's twitter feed a little earlier was an image that if real could only be Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus Pit - the green colour used so post-production CGI could change it into a spectacular special effect, presumably. I'm sure many of our readers will be surprised that director
Chris Nolan, an advocate of realism with his Batman movies to date has seemingly gone down the supernatural route with the Lazarus Pit (again if this photo is real) but the hints were there with
Batman Begins if you look closely and HELL, let's not forget he made
The Prestige! That movie toyed with what is real and what isn't, blending the two together in a movie full of mystical wonder. Let's not forget
David Bowie's Tesla made a duplicating electrical cloning device that I'm pretty certain he never really invented - so Nolan has been known to go a little sci-fi-y. More on this after the jump... Members of
The Dark Knight Community have also spotted
Josh Pence on the set who we already know has
officially been cast as a young Ra's in the movie for some flashbacks, which clearly is what is being filmed here. Man, I wonder what they are building towards? Will Ra's tell Batman he has found a way to bring people back to life, his appearance in the film being the proof to Bruce Wayne that people can be brought back from the dead? For someone who avengers the childhood death of his parents everyday of his life, that's a powerful weapon for Ra's to use against Bruce Wayne. Lots to think about... but isn't it exciting? Though I should note that
Christian Bale is not in India for the beginning of the shoot as erroneously reported earlier. The Dark Knight Rises began filming today which will last the majority of 2011 - for a release July 20, 2012.