This is interesting – The Los Angeles Times has learned that filming for Warner Brothers’ The Dark Knight Rises is scheduled to hit New York City in the coming weeks, and they’re considering filming at the Occupy Wall Street movement.

From the report:

But the Christian Bale-led production is now set to make a trip to New York and could be heading to a fraught locale: the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Under its code name “Magnus Rex,” the Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures production will arrive in the nation’s biggest city for 14 days starting Oct. 29, according to a casting notice recently issued by producers. And, according to a person briefed on actors’ schedules who requested anonymity because production details were being kept confidential, cast members have been told the shoot could include scenes shot at the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Occupy Wall Street is of course the movement that began in Lower Manhattan and has since spread to other cities, including downtown Los Angeles. It marked its 30th day on Monday and in New York has gathered supporters at Zuccotti Park downtown as well as in locations in Midtown Manhattan and elsewhere in the city. It seeks to bring attention to banking deregulation, Wall Street bonuses and other practices that supporters say threaten the prospects of the working- and middle class.

The Times goes on to suggest that if they were to use Occupy Wall Street as a backdrop, it would be for a portion of the story which already exists in the script (they don’t believe Nolan would add something just before filming).