TV & Film
Filming for new heist series is happening around Manchester with shoot outs and car chases
Several parts of the Northern Quarter were cordoned off over the weekend
Manchester is standing in as the backdrop for a new Disney+ series, with filming currently taking place across various parts of the city.
Culprits, billed to be both ‘dark and funny’, will be centred around the aftermath of a heist, when the crew have gone their separate ways but are being targeted by a killer one-by-one.
Over on the Disney+ website, a description for Culprit reads: “A darkly funny, whip-smart series about the aftermath of a heist. The crew have gone their separate ways but someone is coming after them one by one.”
James Bond actress Gemma Arterton will star in the series alongside Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy and stand up icon Eddie Izzard.
The eight-part series has been written and directed by J Blakeson, the Harrogate-born writer and filmmaker behind The Disappearance of Alice Creed and 2020 feature thriller I Care A Lot.
An exact release date is yet to be announced for the new series but filming is well underway, and its taking place right here in Manchester of all places.
Images on social media showed what appeared to be a shoot-out scene being filmed on Lever Street in the Northern Quarter on Sunday (March 20th), with the surrounding roads being fully blocked off.
And yesterday, an alleged getaway scene was filmed on Dickinson Street, just off Portland Street.
Production blocked off the surrounding roads, with the scene featuring a blue getaway car with a drone camera filming from above.
Though this isn’t the first time Manchester has stood in as the backdrop for a series, with Castlefield having famously featured in a number of Peaky Blinders scenes.
Last year, excitement was rife as crews rolled into the area to build their set on the cobbled streets around Duke Street for the sixth and final season.
The area was left completely unrecognisable but all too familiar for viewers of the series, which follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family in the aftermath of the First World War.