{"id":32660,"date":"2009-07-01T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T01:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2009-07-01T20:37:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T01:37:22","slug":"prepare-for-the-guillermo-del-toro-decade-the-hobbit-director-is-just-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/07\/01\/32660-prepare-for-the-guillermo-del-toro-decade-the-hobbit-director-is-just-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare for the Guillermo del Toro decade: &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; director is just getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lat_logo_inner.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lat_logo_inner.jpg\" alt=\"lat_logo_inner\" title=\"lat_logo_inner\" width=\"150\" height=\"20\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32662 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>One of the gentle souls in the movie business is Guillermo del Toro, and I always look forward to my interviews with him. This is a longer version of my latest story on Del Toro, which is scheduled to run Thursday on the cover of the Los Angeles Times Calender section. The Hobbit Fantasy and horror fans, prepare yourself for the Decade of Del Toro. On the far side of the globe, in New Zealand, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is now in his seventh month of labor on \u201cThe Hobbit,\u201d a $300-million epic that will be told over two films in 2011 and 2012. But you can also find the Guadalajara native on the shelf of your local bookstore with his just-released debut novel, \u201cThe Strain,\u201d the opening installment of a vampire trilogy he already has mapped out. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2009\/07\/prepare-for-the-guillermo-del-toro-decade-the-hobbit-director-is-just-getting-started.html\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the gentle souls in the movie business is Guillermo del Toro, and I always look forward&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[435,4,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8uM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}