No Time to Die

© EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

That market from Bridget Jones, the bridge where James Bond runs. The church from Four Weddings and a Funeral.

They're still there. Exactly as they were. Walk up, look around —and suddenly the city clicks into focus in a way it never did before.

No Time to Die

© EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

I've visited London more times than I can count and thought I knew the city inside out. But since I started visiting filming locations, London became a completely different place.The streets hadn't changed, but suddenly there were stories everywhere — iconic scenes hidden in plain sight, famous locations I'd walked past without noticing. 

A phone box on Great Scotland Yard, a doorway beneath the South Bank Lion, a familiar street from a Bond chase scene. All real. All waiting to be discovered.

MovieWalks changes how you see a city. First visit or fiftieth, you'll spot things you've never noticed.

Here are five locations waiting for you on the MovieWalk London - Westminster.

Take Westminster Bridge. Tourists cross it by the thousands every day, no eyes for the door underneath the South Bank Lion that, in Die Another Day, leads somewhere rather interesting. And if you've seen Spectre, you already know what this bridge looks like at 3am, lit up in a very specific way that took weeks of coordination with the House of Commons, County Hall, and the London Eye to get right. The production sent out over 11,000 letters just to keep those lights consistent for five weeks. We'll tell you why on the walk.

Westminster Abbey shows up twice on this walk, and both times for reasons that will make you look at the building differently. The Da Vinci Code filmed here — well, partly. Westminster Abbey said no to the interior shots (they had strong feelings about the book), so the production moved to a cathedral in eastern England and rebuilt Newton's tomb from scratch. What happened to that set afterward is worth knowing.

And then there's Friends. The London episodes. The chaos that unfolded at Westminster Abbey during that shoot — the crowd, the media, what security had to do to calm everyone down — is genuinely funny. We've got the details.

Almost no production ever gets permission to film on Downing Street. We'll show you which one was the rare exception — and what they had to do in post-production to make 2017 look like 1940.

At Great Scotland Yard, Harry Potter entered the Ministry of Magic through a phone box. The number to dial? 62442. Spell it out. You'll see. What the filmmakers built to disguise the location is the kind of detail that makes you want to stop and look twice — except you'd never notice without us telling you.

And Whitehall Court: on a Sunday in June 2019, Daniel Craig stepped out of an Aston Martin here for No Time to Die. A set photographer was waiting. The shot they captured became the film's very first official image. You'll stand in that exact spot.

MovieWalks takes familiar places—Westminster, Big Ben, the Horse Guards, Downing Street—and pulls back the curtain. Not to impress you with trivia, but to change how you see the city.No Time to Die, Spectre, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Crown, Friends, The Da Vinci Code, Darkest Hour, and more — they all shot here. On these streets. In front of these buildings.You just haven't noticed where.

Ready to see London differently? Download MovieWalks now and begin your Westminster adventure today—walk at your pace, any time.