{"id":47529,"date":"2011-08-23T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=47529"},"modified":"2011-08-23T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:04:19","slug":"la-times-%e2%80%98the-hobbit%e2%80%99-peter-jackson-and-the-one-true-bilbo-baggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/08\/23\/47529-la-times-%e2%80%98the-hobbit%e2%80%99-peter-jackson-and-the-one-true-bilbo-baggins\/","title":{"rendered":"LA TIMES: \u2018The Hobbit\u2019: Peter Jackson and the one true Bilbo Baggins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"From the Hero Complex LA Times blog:<\/p>\n

How good is Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins?\u00a0Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson says there is \u201csimply nobody else\u201d who could star in\u00a0\u201dThe Hobbit\u201d\u00a0epic that will be told over two films, the first reaching theaters in December 2012 and the second in December 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is fantastic and there is simply nobody else for the job,\u201d Jackson said during a recent break from the production in New Zealand and a\u00a0whirlwind trip to\u00a0Southern California<\/a>. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t find anyone who was better than him. He is simply fantastic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From the Hero Complex LA Times blog: How good is Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins?\u00a0Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":47531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[114,497,1300,4,1260,74,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-production-directors","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-martin-freeman","category-jackson","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t