{"id":38426,"date":"2010-09-10T03:59:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T08:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=38426"},"modified":"2010-09-10T04:02:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T09:02:47","slug":"is-neill-blomkamp-in-the-hobbit-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/09\/10\/38426-is-neill-blomkamp-in-the-hobbit-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"New report puts Neill Blomkamp in &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/06\/18\/37113-is-neill-blomkamp-the-next-hobbit-director-maybe\/nbsmall\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37117\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/nbsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Neill Blomkamp mug\" title=\"Neill Blomkamp\" width=\"164\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37117 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>A New Zealand film website has declared, from its own independent sources, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flicks.co.nz\/news\/scoop-neill-blomkamp-directing-hobbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neill Blomkamp (District 9) will be directing<\/a> a pair of movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221; It was also kind enough to point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/06\/18\/37113-is-neill-blomkamp-the-next-hobbit-director-maybe\/#more-37113\" target=\"_blank\">we broke the story<\/a> as a possibility in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiwi site isn&#8217;t known for rumor mongering so this is a definitely an interesting possibility that <em>might<\/em> be pointing to increased Hobbit activity and a semblance of leadership at MGM and a future for these potential gigantic hits (and fan favorites) to get made. Thanks to message board user <strong>Magpie<\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=277633;\" target=\"_blank\">posting this in our forum<\/a> and to <strong>Ataahua<\/strong> for alerting us to the post. You can read the original June forum response <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=264633;\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And, of course, stay tuned for the latest on all things Hobbit, Tolkien and Middle-earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand film website has declared, from its own independent sources, that Neill Blomkamp (District 9) will&#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":[115,22,7,4,153,1156,334,498,148],"tags":[1261,223],"class_list":["post-38426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-director","category-headlines","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-tolkien-life","category-mgm-production-studios-production","category-hobbit-rumors","category-production-studios","category-hobbit","tag-director-neill-blomkamp","tag-neill-blomkamp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9ZM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426","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=38426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}