Frankenstein: filming a monster in Manchester...

A Hollywood film of Frankenstein is currently being made in Manchester- they were filming at Manchester Town Hall yesterday and today and are in the Northern Quarter next week. Horses are stabled in Albert Square and when they are not eating hay and doing what horses do, they pull these 19th century carriages around. A nice yellow crested one and a hearse carriage marked up in the company name of Hare.

James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in the film I hear, although having never seen the latter act I have no strong feelings on that- I imagine it must be difficult to throw off the Harry Potter label and avoid being typecast, but he seems to have successfully done so and is set for a long theatrical and film career.

Manchester Town Hall is often used as a location for films. I remember another 21st century "movie" of a 19th century fictional character that was filmed here: The first Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes film. I vividly recall the use of Manchester Town Hall's Gothic interiors and a never to be forgotten scene where Sherlock takes a giant leap out of a Manchester Town Hall window....only to land seconds later some 200 miles away, in the River Thames...