{"id":37906,"date":"2010-08-16T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=37906"},"modified":"2010-08-17T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T23:27:41","slug":"confrimation-of-wetas-work-on-panzer-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/08\/16\/37906-confrimation-of-wetas-work-on-panzer-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation of Weta&#8217;s work on &#8216;Panzer 88&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The L.A. Times blog recently did a big story on Gary Kurtz who was a guiding hand in the Star Wars galaxy until he left after &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back.&#8221; He talks a lot about those films and his split from George Lucas over creative differences but he drops a little nugget about what Weta will be up to as well.  It says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He\u2019s now working on a ramping feature-film project called \u201cPanzer 88\u201d that he says will begin filming later this year and will feature visual effects by Weta, the same New Zealand outfit that populated Middle-earth in the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d trilogy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t thought that this should have any effect on the pair of movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; but people in New Zealand are certainly staying busy. Read the whole story <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2010\/08\/star-wars-was-born-a-long-time-ago-but-not-all-that-far-far-away-in-1972-filmmakers-george-lucas-and-gary-kurtz-wer.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Times blog recently did a big story on Gary Kurtz who was a guiding hand in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[4,153],"tags":[1246,1245],"class_list":["post-37906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-tolkien-life","tag-gary-kurtz","tag-george-lucas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9Ro","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}