{"id":44841,"date":"2011-06-01T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=44841"},"modified":"2011-06-01T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:41:00","slug":"sir-ian-mckellen-on-benedict-cumberbatch-in-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/01\/44841-sir-ian-mckellen-on-benedict-cumberbatch-in-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen On Benedict Cumberbatch in The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44847 no-lazyload\" title=\"cumberbatch-smaug\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cumberbatch-smaug-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cumberbatch-smaug-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cumberbatch-smaug.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><strong>Sir Ian McKellen<\/strong> has earlier today put up a new blog post titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/cinema\/hobbit-movie\/110531.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Congratulations, dear Watson<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0on his personal blog &#8220;<em>Notes From Imladris<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0chronicling his journey filming <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Those following TORn will recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/25\/44671-benedict-cumberbatch-as-bard-the-bowman\/\" target=\"_blank\">our coverage<\/a> from last week of <strong>Martin Freeman<\/strong> letting slip the news that <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong> has landed a role in the films.<\/p>\n<p>McKellen&#8217;s post today confirms Freeman&#8217;s statement, and also goes a bit further with a little teaser of the potential role Cumberbatch has been cast in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Now, what can he [Benedict Cumberbatch] be playing in\u00a0The Hobbit? <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>P<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>hilippa Boyens showed me a snippet of his screen-test, played in close-up into the camera.\u00a0 It was electrifying, vocally and facially.\u00a0 Yes, what can he be playing?<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So for now the question remains&#8230; what role has Cumberbatch been cast in? As always, our <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=360220#360220\" target=\"_blank\">message boards<\/a> are rife with speculation, and you&#8217;re welcome to join in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Ian McKellen has earlier today put up a new blog post titled &#8220;Congratulations, dear Watson&#8221;\u00a0on his personal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":44847,"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":[114,22,1300,4,49,1260,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-headlines","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen","category-martin-freeman","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cumberbatch-smaug.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bFf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44841","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}