{"id":30243,"date":"2008-10-14T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30243"},"modified":"2008-10-14T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T04:00:31","slug":"guillermo-offers-more-hobbit-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/10\/14\/30243-guillermo-offers-more-hobbit-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo Offers More “Hobbit” Detail!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"With just a few weeks left before he heads to New Zealand for several years del Toro checked in with MTV News<\/a> to discuss his plans for “The Hobbit” and beyond, including news on Smaug, Doug Jones as the Elvin King, Guillermo Navarro, Elrond and more. On Smaug he noted:<\/p>\n

I discussed the Smaug appearance with great detail with [Tolkien illustrators] John Howe and Alan Lee, and there’s some illustrations that John did out of that meeting in London that approximate Smaug. I cannot say much more. He is becoming clearer and clearer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Regarding approaching some of the actors, someone mentioned Hugo Weaving and he said:<\/p>\n

Oh yeah. We have to approach him \u2014 of course. Hugo Weaving, Andy Serkis, <\/em>Ian McKellen<\/em><\/a> \u2014 they all must be approached to do the movie.<\/em><\/p>\n

The written interview also includes a video on MTV News<\/a><\/p>\n

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With just a few weeks left before he heads to New Zealand for several years del Toro checked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-30243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t