{"id":34256,"date":"2009-11-13T22:48:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T03:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=34256"},"modified":"2009-11-15T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T17:07:07","slug":"brian-cox-rumors-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/11\/13\/34256-brian-cox-rumors-abound\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cox Rumors Abound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Cox reads The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun\" title=\"Brian Cox reads The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31644 no-lazyload\" \/> <strong>Latauro<\/strong> (via <strong>epleterte<\/strong>) from Australia chimed in to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/43069\">Aintitcoolnews<\/a><\/strong> today about a potential casting decision in The Hobbit production. Although nothing is sure, Brian Cox seems to be a strong contender to one of the dwarves. And for what my two cents are worth: That&#8217;d be awesome! Brian Cox is beyond cool. Here&#8217;s the excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a news item I&#8217;d love to proclaim with all-out certainty, but my tried and trusted source(s) aren&#8217;t sure if this is a total lock, or whether it&#8217;s just someone they&#8217;re seriously interested in. Either way, producers of THE HOBBIT have begun looking at casting for the dwarves (dwarfs?), and one name has emerged as a major contender: Brian Cox. He&#8217;s a brilliant choice for the role: physically, he fits with the depiction of the the race in LOTR (well, Gimli), and he&#8217;s a born Scotsman. Also, he could yell at Galadriel for adding narration. So there you go. If this comes to fruition, you heard it here first!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brian&#8217;s name has been mentioned before, in April we announced he was voicing he audio version of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/04\/07\/31643-brian-cox-voices-sigurd-and-gudrun\/\">\u2018Sigurd and Gudrun\u2019<\/a><\/strong>. We also mentioned he was a strong frontrunner in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/04\/13\/31673-casting-the-hobbit-via-torns-message-boards\/\">fan casting<\/a> for <strong>Balin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latauro (via epleterte) from Australia chimed in to Aintitcoolnews today about a potential casting decision in The Hobbit&#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":[114,4,334,148],"tags":[1011],"class_list":["post-34256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-rumors","category-hobbit","tag-brian-cox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8Uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34256","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=34256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}