The Batmobile Arrives in Glasgow as Filming for The Batman: Part 2 Begins

The Batmobile has officially touched down successful Glasgow arsenic filming for The Batman: Part 2 gets underway, with section fans posting footage of Pattinson’s swanky cruiser online.

Videos of the sleek thrust surfaced crossed societal media connected August 17, showing the heavily-modified musculus car pulling into a store astatine the junction of St. Vincent Lane and West Campbell Street.

TikTok commenters pinpointed its nonstop determination astir immediately, with section reports confirming the sightings. Fans person been thing little than ecstatic astir this archetypal look astatine however it volition look successful the sequel, with 1 writing: "Glad they ne'er changed the Batmobile design, it's really peak."

"Best Batmobile yet. There, I said it," different commented, portion different jokingly referenced the Glaswegian contented of sticking postulation cones connected statues and thoroughfare signs: "Someone, enactment a cone connected the Batmobile!"

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Pattinson’s 2nd Batman flick started filming backmost successful June. As per UK quality outlet The Sun, movie crews are expected to unopen down large routes successful Glasgow starting August 18, including Wellington Street, Bothwell Street, the Glasgow Bridge and the Broomielaw quay. These shoots are expected to past 3 weeks.

This isn’t the lone portion of the metropolis to get a Gotham-style makeover; monolithic murals that had been painted connected the pillars of the Kingston Bridge for an creation and graffiti festival were covered up specified days anterior to assistance the determination look much similar Batman’s iconic digs.

This peculiar alteration wasn’t wholly well-received by locals, with 1 telling The Sun: “It was really a bully summation to the metropolis centre which truly needed immoderate sprucing up. With each the wonders they tin enactment with CGI these days, did they truly person to get escaped of them? Surely they conscionable could person been covered up oregon edited out. It’s rather unfair to the artists, too, with each the hard enactment they intelligibly enactment into them.”

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Glasgow is simply a fashionable destination for superhero films; Marvel fans volition retrieve erstwhile filming for Spider-Man: Brand New Day took implicit the metropolis successful summertime 2025, drafting crowds of onlookers who scrambled to drawback photos of Tom Holland arsenic helium filmed a series astatine the opening of the movie.

Fans got front-row seats to ticker Spidey swinging from cables and leaping atop an armored tank, implicit with pyrotechnics and peculiar effects. The infinitesimal went viral online, showing however crews had convincingly transformed Glasgow into Manhattan for the shoot.

Glasgow was besides utilized arsenic a filming determination for The Batman successful February 2020, utilizing its necropolis cemetery for scenes wherever Pattison follows Zoe Kravitz (Selena Kyle / Catwoman) connected the Batcycle, and again erstwhile helium sees her disconnected arsenic she leaves the city.

The Batman: Part 2 is expected to merchandise successful 2028 aft suffering 2 delays. Initially slated for a 2025 release, the movie was pushed backmost doubly owed successful portion to Warner Bros.’ impending merchantability to Paramount, a transaction that has besides been met with ineligible roadblocks, with the second agreeing to intermission the merchantability until 2027 oregon until lawsuits against the merger are resolved.

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