{"id":20628,"date":"2000-08-02T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2000-08-02T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/08\/02\/stars-attend-scriptwriters-new-play\/"},"modified":"2000-08-02T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2000-08-02T20:33:21","slug":"stars-attend-scriptwriters-new-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/08\/02\/20628-stars-attend-scriptwriters-new-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars attend scriptwriter&#8217;s new play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Several of The Lord Of The Rings stars attended the opening of the play &#8220;Blowing It&#8221; at Bats Theatre yesterday. The stars, including Wood, British actors Sir Ian McKellen and Bernard Hill, were invited by the play&#8217;s director and co-writer Stephen Sinclair (this appears as the tailend of an Evening Post story on <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/inl\/index\/0,1008,0a2202,FF.html\"> &#8216;stuff&#8217; <\/a> which basically rehashes yesterday&#8217;s e!online report).<\/p>\n<p>Sinclair is a scriptwriter on The Lord Of The Rings. He was involved in the beginning stages of the project, sketching out the bigger shapes of the story, according to people I&#8217;ve talked to. Since then he&#8217;s written and produced a number of stage comedies that have toured NZ, and he&#8217;s noted for his keen whit and sense of satire. Having somebody like him on the writing team almost guarantees that LOTR won&#8217;t suffer from the kind of overblown, over-serious self-regard that has spoiled other fantasy movies in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of The Lord Of The Rings stars attended the opening of the play &#8220;Blowing It&#8221; at Bats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-20628","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-5mI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20628","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}