\n After months of speculation and test shoots, crews are using using the iconic landmark for the Hollywood movie.\n<\/p>\n
\n Principal photography was confirmed to have begun by director Matt Reeves on social media.\n<\/p>\n
\n The crossing closed on Friday for the production unit to set up equipment to capture the return of the Caped Crusader.\n<\/p>\n
\n Production crews will be on the bridge until Sunday (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n Fans hoping for a glimpse of the actors will be disappointed as the bridge has been fenced off and all access points are guarded by security staff.\n<\/p>\n
\n Support vehicles are lined up on the approach to the crossing.\n<\/p>\n
\n One West Bank resident said: \u201cWe\u2019re so used to the sound of traffic, it seems eerie that it is so quiet.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Fans hoping for a glimpse of the actors will be disappointed as the bridge has been fenced off (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n The bridge, Queensway and specific footpaths are closed for filming until 7pm on Sunday July 26.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Runcorn footpath leading to the bridge and Widnes Queensway footpath are closed.\n<\/p>\n
\n Vehicles lined up for the shoot (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n Traffic and buses are being diverted across the Mersey Gateway.\n<\/p>\n
\n A shuttle bus for pedestrians and cyclists will run from the Waterloo Road bus stop in West Bank to Runcorn Station bus stop.\n<\/p>\n
\n Support vehicles are lined up on the approach to the crossing (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesman for Halton Council said: \u201cThe council would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused for users of the bridge during this time.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Crews have been seen filming earlier this month in Liverpool city centre and the Mersey tunnels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of speculation and test shoots, crews are using using the iconic landmark for the Hollywood movie.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}