{"id":718972,"date":"2026-07-30T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718972\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:36:11","slug":"batman-sequel-set-to-turn-glasgow-into-gotham-city-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718972\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman sequel set to turn Glasgow into Gotham City again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood has increasingly turned to Scotland – and especially Glasgow – as a location.<\/p>\n

Ray Tallan, the head of film at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, previously told BBC Scotland News<\/a> architecture in Glasgow and Edinburgh “lends itself beautifully” to the big screen.<\/p>\n

That has helped Glasgow stand in for Gotham City – typically portrayed as grim, crime-ridden and Gothic – on more than one occasion, although infamously one production shot in the city has never seen the light of day.<\/p>\n

Batgirl was filmed entirely in Glasgow at the end of 2021 and throughout the early months of 2022, only to be scrapped by bosses at Warner Bros Discovery<\/a> without ever being released.<\/p>\n

More successfully, Glasgow also doubled as Gotham in another superhero film, The Flash, as well as The Batman.<\/p>\n

However, it was a Marvel Comic hero who stole the spotlight last year with scenes from Spider-Man: Brand New Day shot in the city and Glasgow this time acting as New York City.<\/p>\n

Star Tom Holland chatted to fans<\/a> while on set for the shoot, and crowds regularly gathered to watch sequences with the web-slinging hero in action.<\/p>\n

Not everyone has been impressed though – a review published by The Times this week said the locations would not fool anyone, and no CGI could “transform Merchant City, George Square and Trongate into Manhattan”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood has increasingly turned to Scotland – and especially Glasgow – as a location. Ray Tallan, the head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}