{"id":671614,"date":"2026-11-01T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671614\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:14:08","slug":"special-locations-are-holy-grail-for-blockbuster-film-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671614\/","title":{"rendered":"Special locations are &#8216;holy grail&#8217; for blockbuster film makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As some classic films are made and remade, location scouts face a constant challenge to find fresh filming locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So was the case with the 2026 version of the Jane Austen classic Sense and Sensibility which was previously shot in south-west England in 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The holy grail of location-finding is something new, that hasn&#8217;t been seen before, and is very special, explains Eddy Pearce from location specialist The Westcountry Set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pearce said he discovered just that special place right on his doorstep when he came across Kingston Russell, a private home tucked away in west Dorset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The house doubles as the family estate Norland, which Elinor Dashwood and her sisters are forced to leave when their half-brother inherits it from their father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The film&#8217;s creators favoured the location as it had not featured in a film before, while the director also liked its weathered facade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the 1995 version of the film, Saltram House at Plympton in Devon was used for Norland, prompting decades of film tourism at the National Trust property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As some classic films are made and remade, location scouts face a constant challenge to find fresh filming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-671614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}