I’m looking out my office window, watching at least several thousand skilled workers turning an otherwise normal Glasgow city centre street into a futuristic dystopian film set (insert your own joke here about that being the council’s job).

If you’ve had a walk through the city’s commercial district in the last week or so, you’ll not have failed to be impressed by the sheer scale of the operation and the attention to detail – from the plywood subway entrance, to the big gold hand pointing skyward, to the ornaments in the windows of what I assume are going to be bars and shops.

No wonder this sort of filming can bring in the thick end of £60 million a year to the city. And, hopefully, a decent chunk of that is spent in local cafes and pubs by those of us visiting the area to catch a glimpse of how the Hollywood magic is made. There are, after all, few greater pleasures than sitting in comfort with a coffee, tea, pint or pastry and watching other people working.

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