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Comic-Con, a world showcase of pop-culture, has been trying to land Peter Jackson for the last decade since it was announce that he would helm the three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of The Rings.” Jackson sent along video to the mega-show for both LOTR and King Kong but for the first time the now big-time director will make the show in person.<\/p>\n
He will make his home in the convention’s biggest room, the already famous 6,500 Hall H, for two consecutive panels on Friday, July 24<\/strong>. He will be on hand to promote the film he is producing for Sony “District 9”<\/strong> along with director Neil Blomkamp<\/strong> and star Sharlto Copley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At 6:30 later that same evening, the New Zealander will join another directing icon James Cameron<\/strong> (“Avatar”) while Entertainment Weekly moderates an hour-long discussion between the two regarding how technology and culture will evolve and affect the future of film as both entertainment and art.<\/p>\n Other Tolkien-themed panels at the convention include: * Saturday’s LOTR-related event is actor John Noble<\/strong> appearing with the cast of his hit show “Fringe”<\/strong>, Saturday, July 25, 7 p.m., Ballroom 20<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And of course you can always visit the Weta booth, buy TheOneRing.net shirts at the SlaveBoy Films booth and see Sideshow Collectible’s Comic-Con exclusive LOTR items and socialize and shop until you drop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comic-Con, a world showcase of pop-culture, has been trying to land Peter Jackson for the last decade since…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[123,16,497,14,4,50,74,167,77,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-comiccon","category-events-conventions","category-production-directors","category-events","category-hobbit-movie","category-noble","category-jackson","category-jackson-other-films","category-taylor","category-production-weta-workshop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8vr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* TheOneRing.net<\/strong> staffers will explore the known facts and the latest rumors regarding Guillermo del Toro’s “The Hobbit,”<\/strong> film just months before it goes into full blown production. Richard Taylor<\/strong> from Weta is expected to join the panel for an update on what Weta has been up to. Thursday, July 23, 10:30 a.m., room 7AB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n