The Dark Knight Rises: Locations

I came across some casting information today that was curious. It was nothing about who’s going to play what, but WHERE its going to be played.

An agent friend of mine released this today on facebook:

Feature Film – The Dark Knight Rises, Starring: Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, and Gary Oldman. Casting is currently underway. Get your agent/manager to pitch ya ASAP, as there are tons of featured roles. With filming locations in Bucharest, Romania; Bedfordshire, England; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; New Orleans, LA; and of course some WB Studio work as well.

First of all- I working on verifying this.

If you were to base a Dark Knight screenplay solely on where it is set- what would these Cities tell you? There is a vast expanse of the world represented here- does the Bedfordshire, England mean we’re going to see some Alfred backstory? Does Bucharest just mean that Chicago didn’t have the right alleyway to represent Gotham properly in some scene?

What do you think?