{"id":35847,"date":"2010-04-01T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=35847"},"modified":"2010-04-01T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:01:34","slug":"mckellen-glad-gandalfs-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/04\/01\/35847-mckellen-glad-gandalfs-coming-back\/","title":{"rendered":"McKellen Glad Gandalf&#8217;s Coming Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itn.co.uk\/54feb88737d0fd59cf80d999288c8210.html\" target=\"_blank\">ITN<\/a>\u00a0reports:\u00a0 <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-35852\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/04\/01\/35847-mckellen-glad-gandalfs-coming-back\/april-2010-ian-mckellen\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35852 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/April-2010-Ian-McKellen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>Sir Ian McKellen has spoken of his joy at the new films in the Lord of the Rings series and at being in them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just glad Gandalf&#8217;s back,&#8221; the legendary actor said.<\/p>\n<p>Director Guillermo del Toro and executive producer Peter Jackson are bringing to life J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, in a two-part film.\u00a0 The 70-year-old said: &#8220;They&#8217;ve done a wonderful script, as far as I can tell, but what it will look like I&#8217;ve no idea.\u00a0 I can understand people being excited, and legitimately so. It is a real book, it was written by Tolkien, not just added on because they made a lot of money out of the first, it deserves to be made.\u00a0 It was a pity perhaps it wasn&#8217;t made before Lord of the Rings in the right sequence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first part of The Hobbit is scheduled to be released in December 2011.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itn.co.uk\/54feb88737d0fd59cf80d999288c8210.html\" target=\"_blank\">ITN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITN\u00a0reports:\u00a0 Sir Ian McKellen has spoken of his joy at the new films in the Lord of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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":[4,148,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9kb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35847","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}