Question: is there a gotham city in real life

title: Gotham City
text: When Joel Schumacher took over directing the Batman film series from Tim Burton , Barbara Ling handled the production design for both of Schumacher 's films Batman Forever ( 1995 ) and 1997 's Batman & Robin Ling 's vision of Gotham City was a luminous and outlandish evocation of Modern expressionism and Constructivism . Its futuristic - like concepts ( to a certain extent , akin to the 1982 film Blade Runner ) appeared to be sort of a cross between Manhattan and the `` Neo-Tokyo '' of Akira . Ling admitted her influences for the Gotham City design came from `` neon - ridden Tokyo and the Machine Age . Gotham is like a World 's Fair on ecstasy . '' When Batman is pursuing Two - Face in Batman Forever , the chase ends at Lady Gotham , the fictional equivalent of the Statue of Liberty . During Mr. Freeze 's attempt to freeze Gotham in the film Batman & Robin , the targeting screen for his giant laser locates it somewhere on the New England shoreline , possibly as far north as Maine . The soundtrack for Batman & Robin features a song named after the city and sung by R. Kelly , later included on international editions of his 1998 double album R . The