Speeding blue and white Gotham City Police cars, water explosions and trailers were sighted on campus last week as filming for “The Dark Knight Rises” took place, transforming EC’s parking lot into a Hollywood movie scenes.

Christopher Nolan is directing the film and stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Joining the cast as Catwoman is Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Tom Hardy as Bane, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, Michael Caine as Alfred, Liam Neeson as Ra’s al Ghul, and Josh Pence as a younger Ra’s.

The movie, which began filming toward the end of August and finished early September, closed off the old two-level parking structure to make way for the production team to set up its props.

Students like Imran Yusus, film major, were excited to see the crew and took time from classes in hopes of getting a glimpse of the movies director.

“Nolan is one of the best directors in the world,” Yusus said.

A notice of filming was distributed to neighbors around the community as well as being posted in front of the filming siteand around the site as well.

According to the notice, the description of the scene being filmed was of an explosion, containing sparks and atmospheric smoke effects along with propane poppers.

“I didn’t know it was shooting here,” Edwin Qurioz, undecided major 17, said.

”I’ll definitely check it out, when it gets realeased,” he said.