You’re in for a big surprise!

Film crews are on location all day today around the shops in West Pollokshields. They are filming scenes for the new adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s 1998 novel Filth.

There is a little disruption as the police are stopping traffic for some scenes but on the whole it’s an interesting peek behind the scenes at the film industry. And, as you can see in the picture, it’s a serious industry with several large vans, oodles of equipment, crew and actors.

Scottish actor James McAvoy (who plays the lead – corrupt cop Bruce Robertson)  is filming today and glamorous it is not with lots of patient waiting around for the right light and keeping people out of the way while he crosses the road or is filmed getting out of the car.

Photo copyright Craig MacLeod

I’m also not sure whether they’re going for 1990s period authenticity but the parka he’s dressed in has a distinct gallagher-brothers-circa-1997 aura. Then again, maybe he’s just cold!