July // 2026
From Glasgow's Streets to a Dorset prison cell: The UK filming locations of Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
New York, yellow taxis, NYPD vehicles, American flags. On the last weekend of July 2025, pedestrians walking down Bothwell Street in Glasgow could have been forgiven for thinking they had taken a very wrong turn. The city centre had been transformed, street by street, into a convincing approximation of Manhattan. Spider-Man was back. And he was in Scotland.
Principal photography began in Glasgow in late July 2025, under the working title Blue Oasis, before moving to Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, it stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker — now four years into fighting crime in a New York that no longer knows his name, following the events of No Way Home — alongside Zendaya as MJ, Jon Bernthal as the Punisher, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Sadie Sink in an undisclosed role, Jacob Batalon as Ned, and Tramell Tillman of Severance as a new MCU character.
Glasgow
Filming began in Glasgow during the final weekend of July 2025, with areas including Renfield Street, West Regent Street, Bothwell Street, Pitt Street, Blythswood Street, Wellington Street, and the area near the Scottish Event Campus fully dressed for filming. American flags, NYPD vehicles, food carts and yellow taxis were positioned throughout the streets. Storefronts and signage were modified, and crews worked hard to set up locations.
Glasgow City Council confirmed approximately 60 roads were closed during the production.
Specific scenes captured by onlookers and posted to social media included a tank chase sequence on Bothwell Street, which also appeared as the fictional Aurora building. Hutcheson Street contributed the Mul Draws mural visible in production footage. St Vincent Street featured extensively — a real restaurant called Little Tuscany appearing in the film's world. Location filming was initially scheduled to finish on August 15 but was extended until August 26 to accommodate additional sequences.
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Leavesden Studios and Pinewood Studios
The production's studio base is Leavesden Studios in Watford, Hertfordshire — where interior scenes, controlled environment sequences and major stunt work were filmed. The production also filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with cinematographer Brett Pawlak leading the visual work.
HMP Dorchester
From the streets of Glasgow to the cells of Dorset. The film's major action sequence — in which Spider-Man battles ninjas to prevent a mass jailbreak — was filmed at HMP Dorchester, a working prison until 2013 that has since found a new life in film and television productions.
Filming at the prison began on November 4, 2025, with the scene — Spider-Man fighting ninjas — wrapping several days later.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens in cinemas on July 31, 2026
SOURCE
BBC Scotland // Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki // Maly Mail // IMDB // sceen-it.com
CREDITS
© Marvel Studios, Columbia Pictures, Pascal Pictures, TSG Entertainment II
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