{"id":47232,"date":"2011-08-15T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=47232"},"modified":"2011-08-15T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:19:21","slug":"steve-hillards-mirkwood-coming-to-a-screen-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/08\/15\/47232-steve-hillards-mirkwood-coming-to-a-screen-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Hillard&#8217;s &#8216;Mirkwood&#8217; Coming to a Screen Near You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47234 no-lazyload\" title=\"John Tolkien\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3264611a_c_p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"248\" \/>More Tolkien on the big screen? This might not be what you had in mind, but&#8230; Remember Steve Hillard, the author of a controversial book &#8216;<em>Mirkwood<\/em>&#8216; which features JRR Tolkien as a fictional character? Well, after a series of legal wranglings, his lawsuit was settled with the Tolkien Estate, and \u00a0it looks like he has decided to adapt &#8216;<em>Mirkwood<\/em>&#8216; for the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the exclusive story from The Hollywood Reporter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Author<strong>\u00a0Steve Hillard<\/strong>\u00a0has signed a deal with EMO Films to develop and secure financing for a film version of his novel\u00a0<em>Mirkwood<\/em>, which centers around a fictional version of\u00a0<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0author<strong>J.R.R. Tolkien<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Emo\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Joel Eisenberg<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0Timothy Owens<\/strong>\u00a0will executive produce the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The adaptation of\u00a0<em>Mirkwood<\/em>\u00a0will follow the template of the novel,&#8221; said Hillard, &#8220;but will delve considerably deeper into Tolkien&#8217;s little-known back story, such as his original plans to become a codebreaker in World War II up through the writing of his enduring works.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/steve-hillard-jrr-tolkien-mirkwood-223062\" target=\"_blank\">Read the Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Tolkien on the big screen? This might not be what you had in mind, but&#8230; Remember Steve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":47234,"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":[198,197,153,495,149,152,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fans-creations","category-fans","category-tolkien-life","category-miscellaneous","category-lotr","category-tolkien","category-tolkien-estate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/3264611a_c_p.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-chO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47232","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}