{"id":33839,"date":"2009-10-07T19:14:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T00:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=33839"},"modified":"2009-10-07T19:14:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T00:14:59","slug":"can-the-hobbit-escape-the-towering-shadow-of-the-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/10\/07\/33839-can-the-hobbit-escape-the-towering-shadow-of-the-lord-of-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Can &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; escape the towering shadow of &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong>Geoff Boucher<\/strong> writes: This week we&#8217;re taking a look at four major trilogies from this decade that are looking to add a fourth film despite substantial challenges &#8212; not least among those challenges the skepticism of moviegoers who may wonder if some of these Hollywood vehicles are running on empty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story so far:<\/strong> Director Peter Jackson&#8217;s majestic and magical interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s epic is arguably the gold standard now for fantasy-film franchises. The &#8220;Rings&#8221; trilogy piled up a staggering $2.92 billion in worldwide box office (plus more than $3 billion in DVD and others ancillary sales) and also pulled off a magic trick that has eluded the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; or &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; franchises &#8212; it cast a spell over  voters in the marquee Oscar categories of best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2009\/10\/can-the-hobbit-escape-the-towering-shadow-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-.html\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Boucher writes: This week we&#8217;re taking a look at four major trilogies from this decade that are&#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_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":[435,4,5,74,334,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-movies","category-jackson","category-hobbit-rumors","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8NN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839","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=33839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}