{"id":29211,"date":"2008-07-13T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29211"},"modified":"2008-07-13T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T02:21:22","slug":"christopher-lee-offers-his-voice-for-smaug-wont-go-back-to-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/07\/13\/29211-christopher-lee-offers-his-voice-for-smaug-wont-go-back-to-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Lee offers his voice for Smaug&#8230; won&#8217;t go back to NZ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a title=\"Christopher Lee\" rel=\"lightbox[pics28628]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/christopherlee.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-28630 alignright no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/christopherlee.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Lee\" width=\"96\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a bittersweet note, forummer DiveTwin reports this note that appeared in <a title=\"Cinematical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2008\/07\/13\/christopher-lee-wont-return-to-middle-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cinematical<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lee isn&#8217;t interested in filming in New Zealand again because it is simply too  far away, for too long of a time. You can hear the tiredness in his voice &#8212; and  perhaps a bit of regret too.<br \/>\nThat  doesn&#8217;t mean Lee isn&#8217;t interested in being in <em>The  Hobbit<\/em> at all, however! He&#8217;ll appear in the film as long as he can stay in  London, and there&#8217;s a character he&#8217;s quite keen to play. Or rather, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">voice<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cinematical gives a link to the original <a title=\"Rushprint\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rushprint.no\/index_blogg.asp?p=1182\" target=\"_blank\">Rushprint.no video interview<\/a> in which Mr. Lee talks about Return of the King, Saruman not appearing in The Hobbit, him not returning to New Zealand and his offer to voice Smaug. [<a title=\"Cinematical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2008\/07\/13\/christopher-lee-wont-return-to-middle-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cinematical<\/a>] [<a title=\"Rushprint\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rushprint.no\/index_blogg.asp?p=1182\" target=\"_blank\">Rushprint.no<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bittersweet note, forummer DiveTwin reports this note that appeared in Cinematical: Lee isn&#8217;t interested in filming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"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":[114,4,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}