A historic Mearns attraction will be the dramatic backdrop for a Hollywood blockbuster out next year.
Sherlock director Paul McGuigan, fresh from a run with the hit BBC drama, spent two days this week at windswept Dunnottar Castle shooting his “reimagining” of Frankenstein.
And the Scot brought Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and Filth actor James McAvoy up from filming on set in London to shoot one of the film’s climactic scenes.
McGuigan posted a picture online of cameras over the castle cliffs, near Stonehaven.
“It was beautiful to be shooting back in the homeland,” he wrote.
Castle custodian Wendy Sylvester said: “The cast and crew have been so good to work with and very respectful of the site. They have been filming constantly but I said they could come back in the future and I would let them in the castle.”
McAvoy, as Frankenstein and Radcliffe, who plays his assistant Igor, spent their free time relaxing in Stonehaven.
Radcliffe has said the script is “far and away the best (I’ve) read coming out of a big studio in the time that (I’ve) been off Harry Potter”.
While there have been dozens of attempts to capture the 1816 novel by Mary Shelley, McAvoy will be the first Scot to play Victor von Frankenstein on the big screen the inspiration for which was an eccentric Scottish doctor living in Windsor.
James Lind was the mentor of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley’s husband and was one of the first people in England to demonstrate electro-medical experiments.