{"id":1442,"date":"2006-05-21T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T20:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/05\/21\/weisz-mckellen-and-sarandon-join-colossus\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T05:07:10","slug":"weisz-mckellen-and-sarandon-join-colossus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/05\/21\/1442-weisz-mckellen-and-sarandon-join-colossus\/","title":{"rendered":"Weisz, McKellen and Sarandon Join Colossus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontIM.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/> From <strong>Variety<\/strong>: Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandon have joined Colin Firth in The Colossus, a colonial drama set in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century, to be directed by Sean Mathias. Based on Ann Harries&#8217; novel &#8220;Manly Pursuits,&#8221; the $15 million film was written by Mathias and Myer Taub, and produced by Lisa Katselas. The Colossus is a fictionalized version of real events. It&#8217;s the story of ornithologist Francis Wills (Firth), who is hired to transport English songbirds to recently deposed South African prime minister Cecil Rhodes (McKellen). Wills falls in love with a firebrand political activist (Weisz) and becomes entangled in a plot to stop the imminent Boer War. Variety says the project is expected to shoot this fall. [<a target=\"NEW\" href=\"http:\/\/comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=14634\">More<\/a>]<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Variety: Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandon have joined Colin Firth in The Colossus, a colonial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,10,5,130,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-old-main-news","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ng","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}