Christopher Nolan se expresó en los siguientes términos:
"When you're making a large-scale action film that has to showcase the vitality and size of a large American city but also involves a certain amount of disruption to that city in order to make the action credible on screen, there needs to be a lot of cooperation from that city. It's a very beautiful city on a very impressive scale and that hasn't lost its human scale, that is very impressive and very hard to find."
Pittsburgh toma el relevo de Chicago en el "papel" de Gotham City. Os invito a ver el siguiente video resumen de la rueda de prensa en la que también interviene Christian Bale ("We'll try to stay out of your hair as much as possible"):