{"id":336179,"date":"2025-08-11T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336179\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:38:12","slug":"waiting-for-spider-man-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336179\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Spider-Man in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s focking Spider-Man,\u201d isn\u2019t something you would expect to hear in Glasgow<\/a>. Even more rarely is it accurate. Yet, this August, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening. The actual Spider-Man has been filmed<\/a> swinging his way, building by building, through the city to a backdrop of military vehicles and police cars. It\u2019s gotten the locals very excited.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the fourth instalment in Tom Holland<\/a>‘s Spider-Man series. The film sees Holland back as our spidery superhero for the first time since 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. At this point in time, Spidey appears to be living alone in New York City as Peter Parker \u2013 at least until the city comes under some great threat \u2013 but the nature of said threat is under wraps, as you might expect. The film is slated for a summer 2026 release.<\/p>\n

Filming is happening in Glasgow for a few reasons. There\u2019s the handy combination of being much cheaper to film in than actual New York City<\/a>, having a grid system like Manhattan\u2019s and being a bit of an architectural chameleon \u2013 if you want a backdrop of Art Nouveau, it\u2019s nae bother. Prime Victorian streets? Also fine. Hell, they can even give you Gothic and Medieval.<\/p>\n

Slap a green and white \u201cFranklin St\u201d sign over Bothwell Street, plonk down a hot dog vendor, protrude the stars and stripes from large white and gold masts, and you have a convincing de facto lower Manhattan. In Bothwell Street\u2019s case, which is a key location for filming, there\u2019s even a real-life Starbucks. It\u2019s a dream for Marvel<\/a>, and the rest of Hollywood, which is why increasingly you\u2019ll find them filming in the city. But how do the locals feel?<\/p>\n

(Photo by Andrew Milligan\/PA Images via Getty Images)Andrew Milligan – PA Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s making work more difficult, both slower and more complicated,” says Asifa, who has been a taxi driver in the city for five years. \u201cBut it\u2019s good fun for the city, and exciting that we\u2019re increasingly part of these huge movies.\u201d As she navigates the closed-off area to drop me near the action, a pretty irate delivery driver behind us slams his horn.<\/p>\n

On the scene, things are happier. It\u2019s an early August morning, and people are either enjoying the dry skies on their way to work or getting ready for a day of shopping. Some mill around for a few minutes enjoying the set, and then they get on with their day. But others are here specifically for the filming, even travelling in from nearby towns \u2013 children in Spider-Man costumes, keen adults in Marvel-branded t-shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s focking Spider-Man,\u201d isn\u2019t something you would expect to hear in Glasgow. Even more rarely is it accurate.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,2766,3063,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-glasgow","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115011119057241704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}