{"id":28960,"date":"2008-06-04T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=28960"},"modified":"2008-06-04T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T22:08:27","slug":"a-casting-christmas-gift-from-guillermo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/06\/04\/28960-a-casting-christmas-gift-from-guillermo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Casting Christmas Gift from Guillermo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hobbit_deltoro.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Guillermo Del Toro Hobbit\" width=\"112\" height=\"175\" class=\"attachment wp-att-28961 alignright no-lazyload\" \/>IGN caught up with director Guillermo Del Toro this morning and tried to get a scoop on when we can expect a casting announcement for &#8216;The Hobbit:&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">When asked if fan favourite James McAvoy had bagged the the Bilbo Baggins role, he replied: &#8220;Not yet. Not yet James McAvoy, not yet Jack Black, or Daniel Radcliffe. There&#8217;s nothing to fear or celebrate yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In six months time we should know,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We will try to give that casting news at Christmas as a gift.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the complete story over at IGN.com. [<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.ign.com\/articles\/879\/879062p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGN caught up with director Guillermo Del Toro this morning and tried to get a scoop on when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7x6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28960","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}