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Polluted sea scares Batman away

He has locked horns with Gotham City’s darkest criminals, but now Batman has crumbled in the face of an even deadlier foe: the polluted water of Hong Kong.

The Dark Knight, a sequel to the 2005 movie Batman Begins, is filming in Hong Kong. But a scene where the caped crusader jumps out of a Hercules C130 cargo plane into the sea between Hong Kong island and Kowloon has apparently been scrapped after the water was found to contain such high levels of life-threatening bacteria that the actor, Christian Bale, would have been at risk of catching much more than a cold.

“The plan was for Batman to be seen jumping into the water and then climbing up on to a pier. But when they checked a water sample, they found all sorts of things, so it was cancelled,” the South China Morning Post quoted a production team source as saying. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2007

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