{"id":29243,"date":"2008-07-22T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29243"},"modified":"2008-07-22T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:07:27","slug":"sir-ian-mckellen-confirms-return-again-loves-director-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/07\/22\/29243-sir-ian-mckellen-confirms-return-again-loves-director-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen confirms return (again), loves director choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a title=\"gandalf.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics28551]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/gandalf.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-28552 alignright no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/gandalf.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"gandalf.jpg\" width=\"141\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Forummer diedye posted this piece of news from <a title=\"Empire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=22969\" target=\"_blank\">Empire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">Speaking at a special screening of The Dark Knight at London\u2019s Imax cinema on  Monday night, he [Ian McKellen] said: &#8220;Well, I haven\u2019t had the contract yet but it\u2019s everyone\u2019s  intention that I play Gandalf so yes, I will be returning to the role. Although  it\u2019s not until 2010, I\u2019m very much excited about returning.<\/div>\n<p>When asked about del Toro and the look of the movie, Sir Ian answered:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">Well, if you\u2019re not going to have Peter Jackson, who else can handle the job? To  get an international film-maker of his standing who adores the original trilogy,  well I don\u2019t think you could possibly find a better replacement, I  think the look will be very much as it was, Weta is still involved, it\u2019s still  the same workshops, the same designers, I\u2019ll be there, Andy Serkis (now  confirmed to return as Gollum) will be there and Peter Jackson will still be  around &#8211; not that he\u2019ll interfere too much &#8211; so it\u2019ll seem like the old family  is getting back together again.<\/div>\n<p>So there you go, further confirmation of several things: no one has been officially cast yet (nothing is signed), Sir Ian and Andy Serkis are to return, everyone&#8217;s on board with Guillermo del Toro and the look of the movie is expected to be relatively similar to that of the trilogy. [<a title=\"Empire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=22969\" target=\"_blank\">Empire<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forummer diedye posted this piece of news from Empire: Speaking at a special screening of The Dark Knight&#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_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":[114,4,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29243","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-7BF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29243","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=29243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}