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Wide of hall2. MS Morgan Freeman walking up to stage 3. MS Christian Bale walking up to stage 4. WS press conference5. Midshot of Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman 6. CA journalists7. SOUNDBITE...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eHong Kong, 8 November 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of hall\u003cbr/\u003e2. MS Morgan Freeman walking up to stage \u003cbr/\u003e3. MS Christian Bale walking up to stage \u003cbr/\u003e4. WS press conference\u003cbr/\u003e5. Midshot of Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman \u003cbr/\u003e6. CA journalists\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Bale, actor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I actually was here twenty years ago when I was thirteen years old on my way to Shanghai. We stopped overnight and I was kind of in a jetlag stupor but I do remember walking around the streets and seeing a lot of neon lights and enjoying that, and thinking I wanted to come back here again. And I arrived last night and me and my wife were walking around, in a jetlagged stupor again and we saw a lot of neon lights. I can't remember where I really went to. So it was kind of d�j� vu. And I look forward to climbing to the top of your highest buildings and jumping off them as Batman later in the day.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Long shot of the press\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English), Morgan Freeman, actor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes this is my very first trip to Hong Kong. Like everybody I suppose I've been reading a lot about Hong Kong over many years and seen movies that originated here. So I have some familiarities with the city but now I will have a lot more.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. WS press conference\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Bale, actor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As Batman, I get the fortunate thing of being able to have the most wonderful views of most of the cities we're in. You know in Chicago I got to be on the top of Sears Tower and see it from that point of view which is something not many people get to do. And I believe we'll be on the top of IFC building later today as well. So I think those are quite good heady experiences. Other than that, you know I got given the list of the least eight things you must do in Hong Kong before you leave. And I'll try and do those when I'm not working.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan across cast and crew posing for photographs\u003cbr/\u003e13. MS director Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale \u003cbr/\u003e15. WS cast and crew posing for photographs\u003cbr/\u003e16. MS Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman \u003cbr/\u003e17. WS Christian Bale heading towards filming location in media scrum       \u003cbr/\u003e18. MS Morgan Freeman heading towards filming location in media scrum \u003cbr/\u003e19. WS street being cordoned off\u003cbr/\u003e20. WS overpass (filming location)\u003cbr/\u003e21. MS Christian Bale on-set\u003cbr/\u003e22. MS catering van\u003cbr/\u003e23. WS Morgan Freeman and Christian Bale on set\u003cbr/\u003e24. MS Christopher Nolan, director on-set\u003cbr/\u003e25. WS Morgan Freeman on-set\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Venice, Italy. 8 September 2007\u003cbr/\u003e26. B-roll Heath Ledger at Venice Film Festival\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eVenice, Italy. 5 September 2007\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (English) Heath Ledger - on filming 'The Dark Knight' and playing The Joker:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's just been stupid amounts of fun and he (The Joker) is incredibly dark, very nasty - he's a psychopath, sociopath, mass murdering clown. It's really coming together and the movie looks amazing. It's a lot darker than the first one and I think a lot bigger too. The actors, I don't know, are phenomenal. Working with Gary Oldman was a dream for me, and Michael Caine and Christian Bale - who, even in a batsuit, manages to give these amazing performances.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment File\u003cbr/\u003eVenice, Italy. 8 September 2007\u003cbr/\u003e28. B-roll Heath Ledger at Venice Film Festival\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eVenice, Italy. 5 September 2007\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (English) Heath Ledger - on cast:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And of course Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman - you know it's just stupid. It's an incredible cast and I'm pleasantly surprised so I'd say you probably will be too.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment file\u003cbr/\u003eCannes, May 2006\u003cbr/\u003e28. MS Maggie Gyllenhaal\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 16 May 2007\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (English) Maggie Gyllenhaal - on why she joined 'The Dark Knight'\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everybody knows that Chris Nolan is an incredible director and if you look at the cast of who is in it - Christian Bale and Aaron Eckhart and Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman. That's the obvious thing to say and that is true.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 15th January 2003, New York\u003cbr/\u003e30. Tilt down Maggie Gyllenhaal\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 7th August 2006, New York\u003cbr/\u003e31. Zoom in Maggie Gyllenhaal being interviewed\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: London, 16 May 2007\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (English) Maggie Gyllenhaal - on filming:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I guess what I take issue with, with a lot of action movies or teen movies is they're not about anything often and it doesn't seem like actors are really allowed to do what they do in those movies. But every bit of my experience so far on this movie has been so great and so much like working on any of the other movies that have interested me in my life. And I do think it's going to be really awesome to fly through the air enveloped by Batman.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Park City, Utah. January 2006\u003cbr/\u003e30. B-roll Maggie Gyllenhaal\u003cbr/\u003eBatman will for the first time leave his crime-riddled Gotham City, taking on the bad guys amid the dazzling skyscrapers of Hong Kong in the next instalment of the superhero series slated to hit the big screen next summer.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Dark Knight,\" which sees actor Christian Bale reprise his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman, will for the first time see the superhero travel outside the fictional world of Gotham City to take on his enemies.\u003cbr/\u003eNolan said he wanted to expand the original story line and thought Hong Kong could provide the right amount of contrast and intrigue.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring a press conference on Friday morning, Morgan Freeman who stars in the film as Lucius Fox, and Nolan refused revealed plans to scale some of Hong Kong's tallest buildings, including the 90-storey International Finance Centre, where the cast are also staying in the five-star Four Seasons.\u003cbr/\u003e\"You know in Chicago I got to be on the top of Sears Tower and see it from that point of view which is something not many people get to do. And I believe we'll be on the top of IFC building later today as well. So I think those are quite good heady experiences,\" Bale said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The Dark Knight\" casts Heath Ledger as \"The Joker,\" Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachael Dawes and Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth.\u003cbr/\u003eLedger said playing The Joker has \"just been stupid amounts of fun.\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"The Joker is incredibly dark, very nasty - he's a psychopath, sociopath, mass murdering clown. It's really coming together and the movie looks amazing. It's a lot darker than the first one and I think a lot bigger too,\" Ledger said praising his fellow cast members:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And of course Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman - you know it's just stupid. It's an incredible cast and I'm pleasantly surprised so I'd say you probably will be too,\" he noted. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen AP spoke to Gyllenhaal in London earlier this year.  Gyllenhaal couldn't say enough about director Christopher Nolan, whom she cited as the reason for joining the cast.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everybody knows that Chris Nolan is an incredible director,\" she said. \u003cbr/\u003eThe actress said she often takes \"issue\" with action films because they're \"not about anything often and it doesn't seem like actors are really allowed to do what they do in those movies.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut \"The Dark Knight\" escapes that criticism.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Every bit of my experience so far on this movie has been so great and so much like working on any of the other movies that have interested me in my life. And I do think it's going to be really awesome to fly through the air enveloped by Batman,\" she said. \u003cbr/\u003eShooting for the film started in Hong Kong on Thursday and is expected to last a few days.\u003cbr/\u003eThe caped crusader will escape the famed pollution of Hong Kong's harbour after a scene was cut from the latest movie \"The Dark Knight\" in which he was to have leapt out of a plane into the murky green water.\u003cbr/\u003eDirector Christopher Nolan said the scene was axed due to a script change, and that it had nothing to do with the health risk posed by the harbour's filthy water, as had been widely reported in Hong Kong media.\u003cbr/\u003eAir and water pollution, however, have tarnished the city's international image. \u003cbr/\u003eThick haze frequently blankets the city's skyline, and the harbour has long been polluted by industrial and residential sewage.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Dark Knight\" and is set to release next summer by Warner Bros. 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