{"id":27994,"date":"2007-11-03T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/11\/03\/27994-sir-ian-mckellen-lends-voice-to-brooklyn-promotional-video\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T21:33:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T02:33:50","slug":"sir-ian-mckellen-lends-voice-to-brooklyn-promotional-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/11\/03\/27994-sir-ian-mckellen-lends-voice-to-brooklyn-promotional-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen lends voice to Brooklyn promotional video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-nex.theonering.net\/images\/scrapbook\/b\/17737_b.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Ian McKellen lends voice to Brooklyn promotional video\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"89\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/> Moviegoers may know him as the voice of Gandalf in &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy, or as a villain in the &#8220;X-Men&#8221; movies. But New Yorkers may soon know Sir Ian McKellen for an entirely different reason &#8211; as the voice of downtown Brooklyn. The British stage and screen actor has donated his voice to a four-minute, 21-second promotional video in which the Academy Award nominee touts downtown Brooklyn&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Yorkers will enjoy a revitalized area that is an engine for economic growth, a place to pursue new careers, a neighborhood where young couples can watch their children thrive, a college town for students to follow their dreams &#8211; a true urban center for the city&#8217;s great borough of Brooklyn,&#8221; McKellen extols in a pronounced British accent. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The video, commissioned by the public-private Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, highlights key development projects planned for the neighborhood&#8217;s $9 billion renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>As many as six new hotels, a park called Willoughby Square, dozens of luxury condo buildings and the construction of a 299-seat theater in the BAM Cultural District are planned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here you have this internationally recognized star and he was performing in downtown Brooklyn,&#8221; said Joe Chan, president of the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>McKellen has appeared in three shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, most recently as &#8220;King Lear.&#8221; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/brooklyn\/2007\/11\/02\/2007-11-02_sir_ian_mckellen_lends_voice_to_brooklyn-1.html?ref=rss\">Sir Ian McKellen lends voice to Brooklyn promotional video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moviegoers may know him as the voice of Gandalf in &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy, or as&#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_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[49,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994","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=27994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}