{"id":190,"date":"2007-08-16T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/08\/16\/the-telegraph-talks-gandalf-mckellen\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T21:49:46","slug":"the-telegraph-talks-gandalf-mckellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/08\/16\/190-the-telegraph-talks-gandalf-mckellen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Telegraph Talks Gandalf &#038; McKellen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontIM.jpg\" align=\"left\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/08\/12\/dp1201.xml#head2\" target=\"NEW\">telegraph.co.uk<\/a> recently ran this small article, which should be taken with a large grain of salt: Sir Ian McKellen&#8217;s dream of reprising the role of Gandalf &#8211; the role that turned the stage actor into an international film star &#8211; looks like being realized after all. Last year, it had looked a distinctly forlorn hope after Sir Ian&#8217;s friend Peter Jackson, the director of the The Lord of the Rings trilogy, said he wanted nothing to do with turning Tolkien&#8217;s other great work, The Hobbit, into a film after a row about money with the production company New Line Cinema. Now, however, Jackson appears to have patched things up with New Line&#8217;s founder, Bob Shaye, and the film looks back on course.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/>By a happy coincidence, Sir Ian is currently in New Zealand performing in King Lear and plans to dine with New Line&#8217;s bosses shortly when he will make it clear how keen he is to play Gandalf in the new film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>telegraph.co.uk recently ran this small article, which should be taken with a large grain of salt: Sir Ian&#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":[4,49,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-34","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","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=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}