Editing Gotham City (section)

====The ''Dark Knight'' trilogy====
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Director [[Christopher Nolan]] has stated that [[Chicago]] inspired his portrayal of Gotham, and the majority of both ''[[Batman Begins]]'' (2005) and ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' (2008) were filmed there.<ref name=Today/> However, Nolan's Gotham City was deliberately set in New Jersey to honor Gotham's location in the comic books.<ref name=Distractify>{{cite web |url= https://www.distractify.com/p/the-batman-filming-locations |title= These Are the Cities Standing in for Gotham in 'The Batman' |website= Distractify |date= March 4, 2022 |access-date= March 6, 2022 |archive-date= March 6, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220306213912/https://www.distractify.com/p/the-batman-filming-locations |url-status= live }}</ref>

For ''[[Batman Begins]]'', Nolan desired that Gotham appear as a large, modern city that nonetheless reflects a variety of architectural styles and periods, as well as different socioeconomic strata. The production's approach depicted Gotham as an exaggeration of New York City, with elements taken from Chicago, the elevated freeways and monorails of [[Tokyo]],<ref name=IGNInterview>{{cite web | first=Jeff | last=Otto | url=http://movies.ign.com/articles/622/622719p1.html | title=Interview: Christopher Nolan | website=IGN | date=June 5, 2006 | access-date=November 6, 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331134903/http://movies.ign.com/articles/622/622719p1.html | archive-date=March 31, 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and the "[[Kowloon Walled City|walled city of Kalhoon]]"{{sic}} in [[Hong Kong]], which was the basis for the slum in the film known as The Narrows.<ref name=WorldwideBBegins/><ref name=IGNInterview/>

In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', more Chicago and New York influences were observed. On filming in Chicago, James McAllister, key location manager stated, "visually it's that look like you would see in the comic books". Nolan also stated "there's all these different boroughs, with rivers to interconnect. I think it's hard to get away from that, because Gotham is based on New York."<ref name=Today/>

For ''[[The Dark Knight Rises]]'' (2012), the production utilized [[Pittsburgh]], [[Los Angeles]], [[New York City]], [[Newark, New Jersey]], [[London]], [[Glasgow]], and [[Toronto]] for shots of Gotham City.<ref name=Reelz/><ref name=PittPostGazette/><ref name=MTV/><ref name=NJ.com1/><ref name=NewYorkPost/><ref name=NJ.com2/>