Will Animal Rights Activists Try to Disrupt Batman Shoot?
Director Christopher Nolan’s decision to film some Arkham Asylum scenes for the Batman Begins film at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill has led some British newspapers to speculate that animal rights activists might try to disrupt the filming.
A group called the Mill Hill Anti-Vivisection Alliance has protested the facility in the past and The Edgware & Mill Hill Times quoted animal rights activist and MHAVA member Pam Kinnunen as saying,
It’s extremely sad that this has to go ahead. I believe this institute is all about cruelty to animals. It’s an awful shame that this is the location that has been chosen to shoot the Batman film.
Warner Brothers was apparently fearful enough of the possibility that it had the NIMR facility sign a confidentiality agreement. The Mill Hill facility conducts research into communicable diseases, including malaria and tuberculosis.
(On the other hand, animal rights activist probably can’t do half the damage to Batman that George Clooney did in “Batman & Robin”).
Sources:
Animal rights activists line up against Batman. Edgware & Mill Hill Times, April 21, 2004.
Tags: Great Britain, Mill Hill Anti-Vivisection Alliance, Pam Kinnunen