{"id":41586,"date":"2011-01-10T19:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=41586"},"modified":"2011-01-11T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T06:23:09","slug":"ian-mckellen-to-reprise-his-role-as-gandalf-in-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/01\/10\/41586-ian-mckellen-to-reprise-his-role-as-gandalf-in-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen to reprise his role as Gandalf in &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28552\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/03\/26\/28551-sir-ian-mckellen-to-reprise-his-role-as-gandalf\/gandalfjpg\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28552 no-lazyload\" title=\"gandalf.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/gandalf.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>More fantastic news for Hobbit fans! The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Sir Ian McKellen will reprise his role as Gandalf the Grey in the upcoming Hobbit movies: <strong>Ian McKellen<\/strong> has signed on to return as wizard Gandalf in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>, the two-pic adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien novel being directed by <strong>Peter Jackson<\/strong>. The dealmaking on <em>Hobbit<\/em> for a slew of Jackson veterans from his <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy has been coming fast and furious and comes on the heels of \u00a0<strong>Andy Serkis<\/strong> finally inking his deal to reprise Gollum.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/heat-vision\/ian-mckellan-set-return-gandalf-69960\"><strong>Read More&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span>: Sir Ian&#8217;s comments &#8211; &#8220;For a year or more, I have been arranging my  \t\t\tprofessional commitments around the possibility of <em>The Hobbit<\/em> films starting at almost anytime.&#8221; Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/cinema\/hobbit-movie\/index.htm\">www.mckellen.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More fantastic news for Hobbit fans! The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Sir Ian McKellen will reprise his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[22,1300,4,49,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-aOK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41586","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}