Quick facts: Director Destin Daniel Cretton. Cast: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Bernthal, Jacob Batalon, Sadie Sink, Marisa Tomei, Naomi Watts, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando. Released in cinemas worldwide on July 31, 2026. Principal photography ran roughly August to December 2025 (under the working title “Blue Oasis”), with a short pickup shoot in April 2026.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Filming Locations at a Glance
- Filming took place mainly in Scotland and England: Glasgow, Buckinghamshire, London, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Dorset, and Surrey
- A small amount was also shot on location in New York City
- Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
- Cast: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Bernthal, Jacob Batalon, Sadie Sink, Marisa Tomei, Naomi Watts, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando
- Principal photography: roughly August–December 2025 (working title “Blue Oasis”), plus a short pickup shoot in April 2026
- Release date: July 31, 2026
Glasgow, Scotland: the real “New York”
Glasgow did almost all of the heavy lifting. The production dressed the city center with NYPD cars, yellow cabs, US flags, and fake shopfronts, then sent Spider-Man swinging after a hijacked armored tank down streets including Bothwell Street, St Vincent Street, Hutcheson Street, Wilson Street, Pitt Street, Wellington Street, Blythswood Street, George Square, and Trongate.
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According to movie-locations.com’s detailed shot-by-shot breakdown, the chase runs down Bothwell Street between Pitt Street and Hope Street, Spidey lands on the tank at Wilson Street, and the vehicle swerves past the real Little Tuscany restaurant on St Vincent Street. Time Out confirms the same route via The Scotsman‘s on-set reporting.
Glasgow has played American cities before (Indiana Jones, World War Z, and 2023’s The Flash all shot chase scenes there), and a city council spokesperson told The Telegraph that a production this size basically becomes a local event.
Can you visit? Yes, easily. It’s just Glasgow city center. Bothwell Street and St Vincent Street are both normal, walkable parts of downtown.
Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
This is where the film actually lived. On Pinewood Road in the village of Iver, the crew built a full three-block recreation of “Downtown Brooklyn,” modeled on the real streets near the Queensboro Bridge since that’s where Peter’s apartment is meant to be, then extended it digitally in post (movie-locations.com).
Pinewood also supplied a much prettier location: the wood-panelled ballroom inside Heatherden Hall, the historic house at the center of the studio estate, used for a wedding reception that Spider-Man’s out-of-control powers accidentally crash. Heatherden has shown up in the Bond films and the old Carry On movies for decades.
Can you visit? Not the backlot (working studio, no public access), but you can actually hire Heatherden Hall’s ballroom for real weddings.
London: Senate House and Battersea Park
Two London spots carry real plot weight. Senate House, the University of London’s Art Deco administrative building in Bloomsbury, plays the Department of Damage Control HQ, stretched digitally well past its real 19 storeys. It’s basically a professional movie villain’s lair at this point: it’s already played Gotham locations in the Nolan Batman films and a research center in 2023’s The Flash (movie-locations.com).
Battersea Park, on the south bank of the Thames in Wandsworth, hosted stunt work with Tom Holland and Zendaya near West Carriage Drive in September 2025, plus scenes at the lakeside Pear Tree Cafe (Time Out; The Cinemaholic). A separate flashback scene, involving a Damage Control snatch squad, was filmed further west at Ravenscourt Park in Hammersmith.
Can you visit? Yes to both. Senate House’s exterior is publicly viewable (it’s a working university building), and Battersea Park is a normal public park.
Fanum House, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Okay, this one is a fun one. The Damage Control Westside Branch, where the hijacked tank is ultimately headed, is Fanum House on Basing View in Basingstoke: an 18-storey 1970s Brutalist tower that used to be the Automobile Association’s actual headquarters. Its on-screen destruction is pure VFX. The real building is reportedly slated for demolition, so this might be its last screen role.
Can you visit? From outside, for now. Basingstoke isn’t exactly a tourist town, but if you’re already nearby, it’s a quick look.
Hertfordshire County Hall, Hertford
Peter tracks down Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), teaching physics under a fake identity at “Empire State University,” in the quad of Hertfordshire County Hall in Hertford. It’s recognizable by its arched colonnade and central fountain, and it played the same kind of university-quad role in George Clooney’s 2023 film The Boys in the Boat.
Can you visit? Yes, it’s a functioning county council building in a normal town center.
Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent
Frank Castle’s houseboat hideout, supposedly moored beneath the Manhattan skyline (another digital add), was shot at Turk’s Boatyard, a real working dry dock inside the Slip 7 area of the Historic Dockyard Chatham on the River Medway. The wider dockyard, a former Royal Navy site dating back to the 1500s, also hosted scenes aboard the museum ship HMS Cavalier (The Cinemaholic; movie-locations.com). It’s a genuine screen veteran too, having stood in for London docks, Hiroshima, and 19th-century France in other films.
Can you visit? Yes, it’s open as a maritime museum with guided tours.
Dorchester Prison, Dorset
The “Roosevelt Island” research facility Peter infiltrates for a fight against the Hand is actually Dorchester Prison, a shuttered Victorian jail in Dorset that’s been closed since 2014. It’s also shown up in Luther: The Fallen Sun and the BBC’s The Gold.
Can you visit? Only via organized tours; it’s not casually open to the public.
Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
Peter’s visits to Aunt May’s (Marisa Tomei) grave were filmed at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, the largest cemetery in the UK. Tom Holland filmed there in August 2025, with Zendaya reportedly stopping by the set. Once known as the London Necropolis, the cemetery even had its own dedicated railway line running from Waterloo.
Can you visit? Yes, it’s a public cemetery and a genuinely striking place to walk through.
What about New York City itself?
Worth a correction here: it’s tempting to say NYC was only used for background plates and skyline shots, but that undersells it slightly. The Cinemaholic reports that a small chunk of the film was genuinely shot on location in New York, on top of the aerial and skyline plates used to digitally dress the Glasgow and Pinewood sets. So it’s minor, but it’s not zero.
A claim that couldn’t be confirmed: Italy and Morocco
A few social posts (one specific X/Twitter account) list Italy and Morocco alongside the UK as filming locations. That claim doesn’t show up in any of the detailed, on-the-ground location reports out there, Time Out, The Cinemaholic, movie-locations.com, the BBC, The Scotsman, none of them mention Italy or Morocco anywhere. Until a source with actual reporting behind it confirms this, it’s best treated as unverified rather than fact. Worth flagging since it’s floating around, but it’s not going in as confirmed.
Quick reference table
| Location | Real place | What it plays in the film |
|---|---|---|
| Glasgow city center | Scotland | Queens & Manhattan streets, tank chase |
| Pinewood Studios | Iver, Buckinghamshire | “Downtown Brooklyn” backlot; Heatherden Hall wedding |
| Senate House | Bloomsbury, London | Department of Damage Control HQ |
| Battersea Park | Wandsworth, London | Park stunt scenes, Pear Tree Cafe |
| Ravenscourt Park | Hammersmith, London | Snatch-squad flashback |
| Fanum House | Basingstoke, Hampshire | Damage Control Westside Branch |
| Hertfordshire County Hall | Hertford | Empire State University |
| Historic Dockyard Chatham | Kent | Frank Castle’s boathouse |
| Dorchester Prison | Dorset | “Roosevelt Island” facility |
| Brookwood Cemetery | Surrey | Aunt May’s grave |
| New York City | USA | Minor on-location shots, background plates |
Planning a Spider-Man: Brand New Day Location Trip
The good news for anyone tempted to chase these down in person: almost everything except Glasgow clusters within easy day-trip range of London.
Base yourself in London for most of it. Senate House, Battersea Park, and Ravenscourt Park are all within the city, reachable by tube or bus in one day. From there:
- Kent (Chatham Historic Dockyard): about an hour by train from London, easy day trip
- Surrey (Brookwood Cemetery): roughly 40 minutes by train from Waterloo, also a fitting one, given the cemetery’s own history with a dedicated Waterloo rail line
- Hampshire (Fanum House, Basingstoke): about 45 minutes by train from London Waterloo
- Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire County Hall, Hertford): about 40 minutes by train from London
- Buckinghamshire (Pinewood Studios): close to London geographically, but there’s nothing to actually see since it’s a working studio lot with no public access
Glasgow is its own trip. It’s roughly 400 miles / 640 km north of London, about a 4.5-hour train ride or a 1-hour flight. Worth combining with a few days exploring Scotland rather than a rushed day trip, since the film locations themselves are just normal city-center streets.
Travel tip: Don’t try to chase every single spot in one trip. The London cluster alone (Senate House, Battersea Park, Ravenscourt Park) makes for a solid afternoon of Spider-Man-themed wandering, and pairing it with just one of the day-trip counties keeps things relaxed instead of turning it into a checklist.
FAQs
Where was Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) filmed?
Mostly in Scotland and England: Glasgow, Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, London (Senate House, Battersea Park, Ravenscourt Park), Basingstoke in Hampshire, Hertford in Hertfordshire, Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent, Dorchester Prison in Dorset, and Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. A small amount was also shot on location in New York City.
Why wasn’t it filmed in New York?
Mostly cost and control. Building three city blocks on a Pinewood backlot and dressing central Glasgow let the production control weather, traffic, and crowds in a way shooting for months in actual Manhattan wouldn’t. It’s reportedly the first Spider-Man film to recreate New York almost entirely overseas, according to Time Out (2019’s Far From Home did shoot one scene in Manhattan itself).
Did they film in Italy or Morocco?
Not confirmed. That claim traces back to a single social media post with no corroboration from any detailed location report, so it’s not counted as verified here.
When did filming take place?
Principal photography ran from roughly August to December 2025 under the working title “Blue Oasis,” with a short pickup shoot in April 2026.
