{"id":618439,"date":"2026-06-03T06:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:50:09","slug":"masters-of-the-universe-filming-sees-somerset-sites-transformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618439\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of the Universe filming sees Somerset sites &#8216;transformed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset residents have said it was &#8220;surreal&#8221; to see areas of the county transformed into the setting of a new superhero blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scenes for the new Masters of the Universe film, which stars Nicholas Galitzine, Camila Mendes and Idris Elba, were shot at Wells Cathedral and Wookey Hole Caves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crews of more than 200 people worked at the cathedral, building sets for the filming of a battle scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sally Stockman, who works at Wookey Hole Caves, said: &#8220;To see something on this scale and to be a part of it is a really eye-opening experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset residents have said it was &#8220;surreal&#8221; to see areas of the county transformed into the setting of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618439","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\/618439","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=618439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}