{"id":28619,"date":"2008-04-07T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/07\/28619-sir-ian-mckellen-regarding-the-hobbit-its-sort-of-finished-business-really\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T16:56:49","slug":"sir-ian-mckellen-regarding-the-hobbit-its-sort-of-finished-business-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/07\/28619-sir-ian-mckellen-regarding-the-hobbit-its-sort-of-finished-business-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen regarding The Hobbit: &#8220;It&#8217;s sort of finished business, really&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ianmckellen.jpg\" width=\"92\" height=\"135\" alt=\"ianmckellen.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignright no-lazyload\" \/>From &#8220;The Independent&#8221;: Mop that perspiring brow, Middle Earthlings. Sir Ian McKellen ends a saga that had become as protracted as the blockbusting Lord Of The Rings film trilogy: will he return as the benevolent wizard Gandalf in the keenly-anticipated adaptation of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s The Hobbit? Sir Ian tells Pandora that he has reached advanced discussions, leaving only the paperwork to complete before he can dust off his wizard&#8217;s robes: <strong><em>&#8220;It is sort of finished business really. I think I will be in the film.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> Speaking at a gala dinner for the gay rights charity Stonewall, he added: &#8220;The first film will be released in 2011 and the second in 2012. The first is The Hobbit, and the second connects the story to the [sequel] Lord Of The Rings, it brings it all together.&#8221; Thanks to David for the link. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/columnists\/pandora\/pandora-pa-problems-bug-tony-blair-805481.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;The Independent&#8221;: Mop that perspiring brow, Middle Earthlings. Sir Ian McKellen ends a saga that had become&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[114,4,49,10,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7rB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28619","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}