{"id":45214,"date":"2011-06-17T01:44:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T06:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=45214"},"modified":"2011-06-17T01:44:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T06:44:02","slug":"deadline-com-exclusive-benedict-cumberbatch-voicing-smaug-and-the-necromancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/17\/45214-deadline-com-exclusive-benedict-cumberbatch-voicing-smaug-and-the-necromancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline.com Exclusive: Benedict Cumberbatch Voicing Smaug (And The Necromancer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-44567\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/22\/44565-breaking-benedict-cumberbatch-in-the-hobbit\/benedict-cumberbatch-jpg-446%c3%97251-pixels-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44567 no-lazyload\" title=\"Benedict-Cumberbatch.jpg 446\u00d7251 pixels\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Benedict-Cumberbatch.jpg-446\u00d7251-pixels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>Close on the heels of their exclusive that Luke Evans has been cast in the role of Bard the Bowman,\u00a0<em>Deadline.com<\/em> has broken another exclusive that <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong> will be voicing the character of both\u00a0<strong>Smaug\u00a0the Dragon<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>the Necromancer<\/strong> in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Via Deadline.com<\/strong>: After reporting today\u00a0that Luke Evans will play Bard in the Peter Jackson-directed\u00a0<em>The Hobbit <\/em>and wondering who&#8217;ll voice the dragon Smaug, Deadline can now tell you that it will be Benedict Cumberbatch. He&#8217;ll portray Smaug via motion capture. He is already on the picture, providing the voice of the character Necromancer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/06\/benedict-cumberbatch-to-voice-smaug-in-the-hobbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline.com<\/a> for the complete article.<\/p>\n<p>What think you of this casting decision involving the main\u00a0antagonists of The Hobbit being voiced by a single actor? <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=363989#363989\" target=\"_blank\">Our boards<\/a> are afire with both excitement and apprehension. Have your say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close on the heels of their exclusive that Luke Evans has been cast in the role of Bard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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":[499,1300,4,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bLg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45214","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=45214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}