Those of us around the Civic Square or water­front areas may have noticed a bit of a ker­fuffle involving a fleet of Minis hoon­ing where cars aren’t nor­mally allowed.

This is, it turns out, part of a Wel­ling­ton-based shoot for the film “Play­ers”, a cheeky Bol­ly­wood remake of the Michael Caine clas­sic “The Itali­an Job”.

Eagle-eyed Wel­ling­tonista Tom happened to spot some of the action:

All togeth­er now, “This is the self-pre­ser­va­tion soci­ety…”