{"id":54988,"date":"2012-04-11T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54988"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T21:23:51","slug":"stephen-fry-finishes-filming-bids-a-fond-farewell-to-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/11\/54988-stephen-fry-finishes-filming-bids-a-fond-farewell-to-middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry finishes filming, bids a fond farewell to Middle-earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/03\/44918-bbc-talks-with-stephen-fry-on-his-hobbit-role\/bbc-news-stephen-fry-on-his-hobbit-film-role-in-new-zealand\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44919\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-44919 no-lazyload\" title=\"BBC News - Stephen Fry on his Hobbit film role in New Zealand\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBC-News-Stephen-Fry-on-his-Hobbit-film-role-in-New-Zealand-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>British actor Stephen Fry, who will appear as the Master of Laketown in the upcoming <em>Hobbit<\/em> movies (though perhaps only in the second one?? &#8211; just a guess&#8230;), has &#8211; according to the\u00a0press &#8211; finished filming in New Zealand.\u00a0 He&#8217;s clearly sad to go, as reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstalkzb.co.nz\/auckland\/news\/nbent\/2077043779-Stephen-Fry-finishes-scenes-for-The-Hobbit\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 (If you&#8217;re curious about Fry&#8217;s comments about broadband services, as mentioned in the article, you can read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/technology\/6446889\/Fry-broadband-rant-a-misunderstanding\">here<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>What this means regarding what is &#8216;in the can&#8217; and what is still to be shot can only be speculated.\u00a0\u00a0Are all Laketown\u00a0scenes filmed?\u00a0 Have the technical wizards already started adding in a CGI Smaug?\u00a0\u00a0Might Fry be called back for pick-ups after the first movie has been released?\u00a0 Right now, the question I&#8217;m pondering is this: once he&#8217;s back in Britain, I wonder how soon the actor will find time to\u00a0stop by the Hobbit pub in Southampton?\u00a0 Perhaps he&#8217;ll wait till cast mate Ian McKellen can join him, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/cinema\/hobbit-movie\/120314.htm\">later in the summer<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British actor Stephen Fry, who will appear as the Master of Laketown in the upcoming Hobbit movies (though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":44919,"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_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":[1300,4,466,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-stephen-fry","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBC-News-Stephen-Fry-on-his-Hobbit-film-role-in-New-Zealand.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-eiU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54988","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54988"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54995,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54988\/revisions\/54995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}