{"id":19291,"date":"2001-04-25T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2001-04-25T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/04\/25\/reelcom-gamble-of-the-rings\/"},"modified":"2001-04-25T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2001-04-25T20:47:27","slug":"reelcom-gamble-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/04\/25\/19291-reelcom-gamble-of-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Reel.com: Gamble of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Many fans have written to us today concerning the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reel.com\/reel.asp?node=movienews\/confidential\" target=\"new\">Gamble of the Rings<\/a>&#8221; article at Reel.com&#8217;s &#8216;Hollywood Confidential.&#8217; Mr. Wells, the author, is obviously not a Tolkien fan and has a rather negative slant on the film trilogy&#8217;s financial prospects. He reports on the buzz within the industry and the fact that AOL-Time Warner (which owns New Line) is concerned about the box office potential. Mr. Wells is also kind enough to call us Tolkien fans &#8216;the geek types&#8217; and &#8216;pre-teens.&#8217; Thank you Mr. Wells. Over 100 million geeks worldwide send their regards. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reel.com\/reel.asp?node=movienews\/confidential\" target=\"new\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>ps &#8211; The second image is of <a href=\"\/movie\/cast\/lee.html\">Christopher Lee<\/a> as  <a href=\"\/movie\/char\/saruman.html\">Saruman<\/a>, not <a href=\"\/movie\/cast\/mckellen.html\">Ian McKellen<\/a> as <a href=\"\/movie\/char\/gandalf.html\">Gandalf<\/a>. UPDATE: It now has been corrected to Christopher Lee is Suranam, heaven help us&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>AND the first picture is Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan and NOT Sean Astin. (there is getting it wrong and getting it WRONG!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many fans have written to us today concerning the &#8220;Gamble of the Rings&#8221; article at Reel.com&#8217;s &#8216;Hollywood Confidential.&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-519","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}