{"id":34123,"date":"2009-11-03T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=34123"},"modified":"2009-11-03T21:39:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:39:49","slug":"gandalf-has-read-the-hobbit-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/11\/03\/34123-gandalf-has-read-the-hobbit-script\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gandalf&#8217; has read the Hobbit script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28228 no-lazyload\" title=\"Ian McKellen As Gandalf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/hobbit_gandalf.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Ian McKellen As Gandalf\" width=\"128\" height=\"122\" \/>Thanks to message board member\u00a0<strong>Theodred<\/strong> for alerting us to this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/11\/gandalf-has-read-the-hobb.php\">scifiwire.com<\/a>:\u00a0Ian McKellen, whom we expect will put on Gandalf&#8217;s gray robes in director Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s upcoming <em>Hobbit<\/em> movies, tells us he&#8217;s finally read the script for the films. And, no, he won&#8217;t tell us much about it, except that producer Peter Jackson (who co-wrote the script with longtime <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, as well as del Toro) wrote it specifically for him.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Secondary Media Source BEGINS --><!-- \/Secondary Media Source ENDS -->&#8220;As Peter has said, they loved writing Gandalf [for <em>The Hobbit<\/em>] because they knew who they were writing him for,&#8221; McKellen told us exclusively in an interview last week while promoting AMC&#8217;s <em>The Prisoner<\/em>. &#8220;There are a lot of characters in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>, including, crucially, Bilbo, and they don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s going to play Bilbo. So it&#8217;s extremely attractive that this part has been written for me. The other Gandalf was written for, well, just as Gandalf. There&#8217;s lots for me to enjoy, in all sorts of ways. And I couldn&#8217;t be happier. But I&#8217;m sworn to secrecy. I&#8217;m not to say anything at all about the script.&#8221; <strong><a href=\"Ian McKellen, whom we expect will put on Gandalf's gray robes in director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Hobbit movies, tells us he's finally read the script for the films.\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to message board member\u00a0Theodred for alerting us to this story from scifiwire.com:\u00a0Ian McKellen, whom we expect will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[22,4,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8Sn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}