Thriller Scorn being filmed in York starring Adria Arjona

As The Press reported, cameras started rolling in St Mary’s, off Bootham, on Monday morning (February 9).

Crew members set up cameras and tents in the residential street with the filming appearing to focus on a guest house near the Marygate car park end of the street. They also set up a base in Marygate car park.

Filming for new thriller, Scorn, gets underway in St Mary’s, off Bootham in York, on Monday (February 9) (Image: Dylan Connell)

The film crew is due to be in St Mary’s until Friday, with the street closed until then.

It has now been confirmed that the crew is filming new erotic thriller, Scorn.

Adria Arjona (Image: Kevin Berru)

Topic Studios, the company behind the film, said it features Adria Arjona and Kingsley Ben-Adir.

Arjona, who has starred in Father of the Bride, Hit Man and Blink Twice, was spotted having lunch with her boyfriend, the Hollywood actor Jason Momoa, at the Whippet Inn last month.

Aquaman star Jason Momoa, left, with Whippet Inn owner Martin Bridge after the actor called for lunch in York on Friday, January 30 (Image: Whippet Inn)

The American couple were described as an “absolute delight” by the restaurant’s assistant general manager, Taylor Lloyd, who served them.

Read more: ‘Oh my God, it’s Aquaman!’ – Hollywood star dines in York and is a ‘delight’

Ben-Adir, meanwhile, played Bob Marley in the Bob Marley: One Love biopic, and also featured in Barbie.

Kingsley Ben-Adir (Image: Supplied)

Filming for Scorn, directed and written by Sarah-Violet Bliss, has already taken place in Leeds.

The film will follow a woman who begins a passionate affair with a married man. “When he then tries to re-cast their love as just a fling, she refuses to go away quietly,” a press release issued by Topic Studios said.

Topic Studios said it is fully financing and producing the film alongside Dylan Clark – producer of the Penguin and The Batman: Part I and Part II – and Brian Williams, as well as Aftersun director Amy Jackson.

Sarah-Violet Bliss (Image: Sela Shiloni)

The studio said it has produced more than 40 film and television projects earning 10 Academy Award nominations, 10 Golden Globe nominations and 12 Emmy nominations.

Its recent projects include Alex Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s Wicker, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård; Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville, starring Covino, Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona and Kyle Marvin; and Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain, starring Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin. Topic Studios also produced HBO’s 100 Foot Wave, as well as acclaimed documentaries It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley; and the Oscar-shortlisted Folktales.

The film will be the latest to feature York as its backdrop.

A second series of Patience, the Channel 4 crime drama set in York, aired at the start of the year.

Filming for festive movie Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint, starring Richard E. Grant, Celia Imrie and Adjoa Andoh, also took over streets in York city centre last November.