Revealed: every Spider-Man: Brand New Day filming location so far, from New York streets to Morocco

Spider- Man: Brand New Day did not stay put. The new Tom Holland movie hops from a fake Manhattan to real deserts, with Glasgow doing most of the heavy lifting and Pinewood building the big stuff. New York? Barely there, which is both funny and very on-brand for modern blockbuster logistics. Here is how the production actually pieced together Peter Parker's world.

• Glasgow, Scotland – City center doubling for NYC: Bothwell St, St Vincent St, Hutcheson St, George Square dressed with NYPD cars, yellow cabs, and American signage; more action on Pitt St, Wellington St, Merchant City, and Trongate; main street work in late July 2025; location shoot extended to Aug 26 (was slated to wrap Aug 15).
• St Mungo's Cathedral (Glasgow) – Used for quieter, reflective scenes tied to Peter's arc.
• Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow) – Columned exterior plays into multiple sequences by day and night.
• New York City – Listed as studio work on IMDb; likely controlled interiors and second-unit material; any real NYC in the movie is probably limited to establishing shots and skyline bits.
• Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire – Core interior builds: apartments, labs, villain spaces; wire work and effects-heavy setups on soundstages.
• Morocco – Desert photography factored in, expanding the movie's footprint beyond urban grit.

Glasgow in a New York costume

Glasgow's grid and grand stone facades make it one of the cleaner cheats for Manhattan, and Brand New Day leans all the way in. Bothwell Street, St Vincent Street, Hutcheson Street, and George Square were kitted out with NYPD cruisers, yellow taxis, and American street dressing. If you did a double take at the trailer, locals did too.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton pushed for practical street work instead of drowning everything in CG. That meant real stunts and web-slinging choreography across Pitt Street, Wellington Street, Merchant City, and Trongate through late July 2025. Between setups, Tom Holland reportedly kept spirits up by saying hi to the crowds camped on the sidewalks. Nice touch amid the usual set chaos.

"Glasgow location filming extended to Aug 26. It had been set to finish Aug 15."

So yes, the city got a longer run as faux Manhattan than planned. Not shocking once you see how much is happening on those blocks.

But what about actual New York?

New York City shows up on IMDb, but under studio work. Translation: controlled interiors or small-scale pickups. Anything outside that feels authentically NYC in the finished movie is probably second-unit: skyline plates, a quick landmark glide-by, the usual establishing fare. Big street sequences in real Manhattan are a logistical nightmare of permits, traffic, and crowd control. Glasgow offers the same visual shorthand for far less pain, and it lets Cretton keep the shoot nimble.

The quieter side: St Mungo's and GoMA

Not everything is chases and quips. St Mungo's Cathedral brings a hushed, Gothic vibe for scenes where Peter actually has to think and feel something. The crew worked respectfully around the historic space while still getting what they needed.

Down the road, the Gallery of Modern Art's columned frontage shows up across multiple sequences, playing both energetic daytime and more polished nighttime looks. Between the cathedral and GoMA, Glasgow proves it can do more than taxi-cab chaos.

Pinewood is the backbone

Once the team wrung everything they could out of the streets, the movie moved to Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire to build the rest. Apartments, labs, villain lairs—the usual Spider-Man staples—went up on soundstages, where wire rigs and effects were easier to integrate without weather or onlookers complicating things. This is the part of a Marvel- Sony production you feel but rarely see: the engineered spaces that make the action read clean.

And yes, they went to the desert

Brand New Day also stretches into Morocco's deserts, adding a totally different texture to the travelogue. Details are under wraps, but the geography jump tells you how far this one ranges beyond the typical New York bubble.

Put together, it is a pretty ambitious map for a Spider-Man movie: Glasgow doing the on-the-ground New York heavy lifting, Pinewood handling the big builds, a brief real NYC cameo for authenticity, and a swing out to Morocco for scale. Efficient, a bit sneaky, and exactly the kind of scope a Marvel-Sony team-up can buy.