Manchester is providing the backdrop for new Disney+ series Culprits, which is set to star Gemma Arterton, with filming going on across various sets in the city. A shoot-out was filmed on Lever Street in the Northern Quarter yesterday, with the roads around being blocked off.
And today, a getaway scene is being filmed on Dickinson Street, just off Portland Street. Production has blocked off the surrounding roads, with the scene featuring a blue getaway car, with a drone camera filming from above.
A security guard at the site of the Dickinson Street set also confirmed that they’d been filming ‘a shoot-out’ in the Northern Quarter yesterday. Passersby noted the closed roads around Dale Street and Lever Street, with others noting the sound of gun shots.
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Said Twitter user @rustyspanner: “There’s me minding my own business walking by getting bread and milk and I walked past a shoot out scene down one of the side streets it scared the life out of me.”
The show is a ‘dark and funny heist’ series, with Bond star Arterton starring alongside Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy and stand up icon Eddie Izzard.
The show will run over eight episodes, and will follow a crew of criminals in the aftermath of a heist, as each of them is picked off one-by-one by a killer. It’s 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.
Blakeson also directed the BBC series Gunpowder in 2017, about the gunpowder plot and starring the likes of Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington, Liv Tyler and Mark Gatiss. Principal photography for Culprits began in the UK last month and as well as Manchester, the series is also being filmed in Cambridge, Ontario. The show is set to air next year.
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