{"id":127644,"date":"2025-09-10T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127644\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:26:10","slug":"star-wars-filming-impact-on-jurassic-coast-winspit-site-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127644\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars filming impact on Jurassic Coast Winspit site examined"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fourteen filming location sites across the UK were examined as part of the Environmental Impact of Filmmaking (EIF) study.<\/p>\n

Findings were based on field trips, surveys of communities in areas near to Star Wars shoots and interviews with local residents as well as ecologists and industry figures.<\/p>\n

Andor was a prequel to the 2016 spin-off film Rogue One, and follows main character Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna.<\/p>\n

Film crews had planned to use Winspit Quarry a second time<\/a> in 2023 but this was cancelled over concerns about landslips.<\/p>\n

There were nine responses relating to the Purbeck film shoot. <\/p>\n

They included complaints about recreational public access to the site which was sealed off during filming.<\/p>\n

There were also concerns about a potential increase in Star Wars-related tourism to the area, which one respondent did not think had suitable infrastructure to accommodate. <\/p>\n

Another participant however, suggested there hadn’t been any discernible change to tourism levels since Winspit appeared in the Andor series. <\/p>\n

Dr Harrison said: “Most people didn’t notice anything at all – which raises questions about whether local communities should be informed and get a say.”<\/p>\n

At the time of the filming, Worth Matravers Parish Council said the crew had been “very considerate” in their use of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen filming location sites across the UK were examined as part of the Environmental Impact of Filmmaking (EIF)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-127644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}