The Batmobile has officially touched down in Glasgow as filming for The Batman: Part 2 gets underway, with local fans posting footage of Pattinson’s swanky cruiser online.
Videos of the sleek ride surfaced across social media on August 17, showing the heavily-modified muscle car pulling into a garage at the junction of St. Vincent Lane and West Campbell Street.
TikTok commenters pinpointed its exact location almost immediately, with local reports confirming the sightings. Fans have been nothing less than ecstatic about this first look at how it will appear in the sequel, with one writing: "Glad they never changed the Batmobile design, it's actually peak."
"Best Batmobile yet. There, I said it," another commented, while another jokingly referenced the Glaswegian tradition of sticking traffic cones on statues and street signs: "Someone, put a cone on the Batmobile!"
Pattinson’s second Batman flick started filming back in June. As per UK news outlet The Sun, film crews are expected to shut down major routes in Glasgow starting August 18, including Wellington Street, Bothwell Street, the Glasgow Bridge and the Broomielaw quay. These shoots are expected to last three weeks.
This isn’t the only part of the city to get a Gotham-style makeover; massive murals that had been painted on the pillars of the Kingston Bridge for an art and graffiti festival were covered up mere days prior to help the location look more like Batman’s iconic digs.
This particular change wasn’t totally well-received by locals, with one telling The Sun: “It was actually a nice addition to the city centre which really needed some sprucing up. With all the wonders they can work with CGI these days, did they really have to get rid of them? Surely they just could have been covered up or edited out. It’s quite unfair to the artists, too, with all the hard work they clearly put into them.”
Glasgow is a popular destination for superhero films; Marvel fans will remember when filming for Spider-Man: Brand New Day took over the city in summer 2025, drawing crowds of onlookers who scrambled to snap photos of Tom Holland as he filmed a sequence at the beginning of the movie.
Fans got front-row seats to watch Spidey swinging from cables and leaping atop an armored tank, complete with pyrotechnics and special effects. The moment went viral online, showing how crews had convincingly transformed Glasgow into Manhattan for the shoot.
Glasgow was also used as a filming location for The Batman in February 2020, using its necropolis cemetery for scenes where Pattison follows Zoe Kravitz (Selena Kyle / Catwoman) on the Batcycle, and again when he sees her off as she leaves the city.
The Batman: Part 2 is expected to release in 2028 after suffering two delays. Initially slated for a 2025 release, the film was pushed back twice due in part to Warner Bros.’ impending sale to Paramount, a transaction that has also been met with legal roadblocks, with the latter agreeing to pause the sale until 2027 or until lawsuits against the merger are resolved.
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