{"id":28773,"date":"2008-04-30T06:21:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T11:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=28773"},"modified":"2008-04-30T06:42:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T11:42:41","slug":"confirmation-ian-mckellen-will-reprise-role-as-gandalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/30\/28773-confirmation-ian-mckellen-will-reprise-role-as-gandalf\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation &#8211; Ian McKellen will Reprise Role as Gandalf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=22480\" title=\"ianmckellen.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ianmckellen.jpg\" alt=\"ianmckellen.jpg\" width=\"92\" height=\"135\" class=\"attachment wp-att-28479 alignright no-lazyload\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=22480\">Empire Magazine<\/a> caught up with Sir Ian McKellen at the UK Premiere of Speed Racer at which he had this to say:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">\u201cYes, it\u2019s true,\u201d he said. \u201cI spoke to Guillermo in the very room that Peter Jackson offered me the part and he confirmed that I would be reprising the role. Obviously, it\u2019s not a part that you turn down, I loved playing Gandalf.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>The other great tidbit of news is that we have a timeline for the script development &#8211; about 6 weeks. Make sure to read the full story and intereview at EMPIRE! (Thanks to Mr. Platt for the heads up!) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=22480\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empire Magazine caught up with Sir Ian McKellen at the UK Premiere of Speed Racer at which he&#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_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":[114,22,4,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7u5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773","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=28773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}