Glasgow meets Manhattan! Filming on Indiana Jones 5 continues in Scottish city

Glasgow has been transformed into Manhattan for Indiana Jones 5.

The Scottish city looked unrecognisable on Wednesday, dressed with yellow cabs, American flags and NYPD firetrucks for scenes for the upcoming action sequel.

While star Harrison Ford, 79, was not on set, extras and crew were hard at work transforming Scotland’s largest city for the blockbuster movie.

Star Harrison has been forced to take a break from filming Indiana Jones 5 for three months as he recovers from a shoulder injury sustained on set.

Yet production on the movie has continued, with the newest scenes featuring the emergency services, with ambulances and fire teams on set.

Actor Boyd Holbrook on Cochrane Street in Glasgow city centre, strolling around in a suit and tie. 

Crew members were seen covering the streets of Glasgow with US flags. 

Various buildings had flags hanging from them and shop fronts were replaced with set props. 

To create a true American feel, even the Scottish traffic lights were temporarily replaced with bright yellow ones for authenticity. 

Director James Mangold was also spotted in the city visiting the set and assessing the progress of the set building which took place on Tuesday.

A group appeared to be rehearsing what is believed to be a scene from the film which sees a parade of various vehicles celebrating Apollo 11, earlier in the week. 

According to Inside The Magic, the latest film will be set during the 1960s space race. 

Crew dressed in their every day clothes were spotted sat on top of the floats as they tested out the scene in a deserted car park. 

The floats were adorned with various messages, including ‘A giant leap for mankind!’ and ‘Welcome Apollo 11 astronauts’. 

The group was then seen walking close together and waving US flags above their heads and an old school New York Police Department car was also brought in for the scene to make it look as authentic as possible.  

Harrison has been forced to delay filming for the new film for three months due to an injury but production for the upcoming blockbuster appears to still be full steam ahead.

Despite sparking fears he may require surgery to fix his shoulder injury, Harrison already seems to be well on the road to recovery as he headed out for a walk for his birthday. 

On Tuesday morning the actor was spotted grabbing lunch in Selfridges where he delighted one lucky fan. 

The icon was without his shoulder sling which he had been wearing following the injury he sustained on the set just three weeks ago. 

Harrison took off his green mask and bent down to pose with the mother of writer and The Significance Of R blogger Marie at the deli counter of Selfridges in London.

Marie from Somerset wrote on her Twitter: ‘They say ‘Never meet your idols’! Thats simply BS! ‘How about bumping into them in Selfridges food-hall during lunch at the deli counter on your birthday!  

‘My mum was over the moon with joy as I took this picture & said how much she loves #HarrisonFord I was too starstruck to speak!’ 

She later added: ‘It was such an awesome moment (for me as a super fan) I was SO star struck that I couldn’t speak! 

‘It was a bucket list moment. If #Harrison Ford does see this photo with my mum, please forgive me for walking away, for not asking about your shoulder, not asking you to lunch!” 

Having been forced to take a break from filming due to his injury, Harrison has been enjoying some unexpected downtime in the city in recent weeks.

Filming for the fifth and final Indiana Jones movie in the series was thought to have been pushed back by three months due to Harrison’s injuries, after being originally due for release in 2022.

It is a fresh blow for the movie – which sees Mangold taking on directing duties from long-time helmer Spielberg – after shooting was previously pushed back as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

An insider told The Sun’s Bizarre column: ‘It is Harrison’s last outing as Indiana and everyone thought it would be plain sailing.

‘After the initial delays everyone was raring to go. But now Harrison is injured and it is worse than first thought.

‘The film’s bosses have come together to work out the scheduling and it’s chaos. The earliest they think they can restart the production is September.

‘It was not what anyone was expecting so to have to change everything is a huge blow. Everyone was concerned for Harrison and they are glad he is on the mend.’

Harrison is known for doing his own stunts on set and Spielberg confessed that he was an ‘idiot’ for letting the star take on risky scenes such as the boulder run in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The legendary filmmaker said: ‘A double would have cheated his head down, so Harrison volunteered to do it himself.

‘There were five shots of the rock from five different angles – each one done twice – so Harrison had to race the rock ten times.

‘He won ten times – and beat the odds. He was lucky – and I was an idiot for letting him try it.’

The out previously reported that Ford had ‘aggravated an old injury that’s bad enough for him to require surgery to put it right’.

The source told The Sun: ‘He was filming an action scene on a train within Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire when he felt it go. It’s not known yet if he will fly back to the US for surgery. It’s all up in the air and schedules are being re-written.’

Reports suggest that production for the film will continue around Harrison’s recovery with the schedule being ‘reconfigured’ when needed over the coming weeks, with the paper adding the incident has thrown the film’s schedule ‘into chaos’

A Disney source told Deadline: ‘In the course of rehearsing for a fight scene, Harrison Ford sustained an injury involving his shoulder.

‘Production will continue while the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated, and the filming schedule will be reconfigured as needed in the coming weeks.’

Harrison previously said he wouldn’t make another Indiana Jones movie unless he was sure the production team could ‘kill it.’ 

Citing the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he said: ‘I don’t really want to give them what they wanna see, I want to give them something they didn’t anticipate seeing.

‘The Marvel movies are a spectacular example of a success that worked the other way round – they killed it. We’re not going to make another Indiana Jones unless we’re in a position to kill it. We want it to be the best.’

Indiana Jones 5 was first announced in 2016 and originally scheduled to be released in July 2019.

It was then pushed back a year, before being delayed for another 12 months until July 2021 after Jonathan Kasdan – whose father Lawrence Kasdan wrote 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark – was brought on board to work on the script after original screenwriter David Koepp departed the project.

This latest entry in the Indiana Jones franchise will see Harrison Ford done the famous fedora and whip for the fifth time, following Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. 

The most recent film in the series was 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which earned over $790.6 million at the global box office.