{"id":36934,"date":"2010-05-31T16:13:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=36934"},"modified":"2010-06-03T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T19:33:05","slug":"pj-may-direct-the-hobbit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/05\/31\/36934-pj-may-direct-the-hobbit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ &#8216;may direct The Hobbit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36937\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/05\/31\/36934-pj-may-direct-the-hobbit-2\/attachment\/3760205\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36937 alignright no-lazyload\" title=\"PJ and GDT\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/3760205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>Sir Peter Jackson says he will step into the breach and direct The Hobbit himself if it becomes the only way to ensure the US$150 million (NZ$219m) film is made after the sudden departure of director Guillermo del Toro.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Chamber of Commerce has said that the film is worth &#8220;many millions of dollars&#8221; to Wellington&#8217;s economy and further delays may mean the film does not start shooting until next year.<\/p>\n<p>Del Toro announced yesterday he had quit the The Lord of the Rings prequel over frustration with repeated delays. He had commitments to other films and said his resignation was &#8220;the hardest decision I&#8217;ve ever taken&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/film\/3760208\/Peter-Jackson-may-direct-Hobbit\" target=\"_blank\"> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Peter Jackson says he will step into the breach and direct The Hobbit himself if it becomes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[497,115,435,4,1156,74,167,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-directors","category-hobbit-director","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-hobbit-movie","category-mgm-production-studios-production","category-jackson","category-jackson-other-films","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9BI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36934","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}