Pitt travels in style to shoot scenes for zombie movie

HOLLYWOOD star Brad Pitt chartered an entire train for his family to travel to Scotland, where he is shooting scenes for a new zombie movie.

The actor travelled on a Virgin train from London to Glasgow Central station with partner Angelina Jolie.

Parts of Glasgow city centre are being turned into streets resembling the US city of Philadelphia for the World War Z movie.

Silver people-carriers with tinted glass were allowed onto platform 11 at the station to take Pitt and Jolie away after they arrived at around 2.30pm.

Crowds were kept more than five metres away from the beginning of the platform and views were blocked by vehicles.

A spokeswoman for Virgin Trains confirmed the train was chartered but would not disclose how much their client had paid.

Elsewhere in the city, work crews were putting up yellow traffic lights, while yellow taxis and white Philadelphia police cars were parked around George Square.

Signs for 16th street and “J F Kennedy Bl” were also visible in the area.

The production will involve almost 1,200 people when on location and the benefit to the local economy is likely to be more than £2 million (€2.3m).

Glasgow Film Office has been working with the production over the past few months to help secure locations in the city and co-ordinating arrangements with council departments and other public bodies to ensure minimal impact on normal business and access.

Gordon Matheson, leader of Glasgow City Council, said: “This is fantastic for Glasgow. It is amazing to see all this work by the film crew to transform our city into a little slice of America.

“We hope that by having a Hollywood blockbuster like World War Z filming in Glasgow, our city will go on to attract other productions of a similar size.”

The film is based on Max Brooks’ 2006 novel World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War, which is set in Philadelphia in the aftermath of a war between humans and zombies.

It is due to be released next year.