{"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":"

\"\"<\/a>British actor Stephen Fry, who will appear as the Master of Laketown in the upcoming Hobbit<\/em> movies (though perhaps only in the second one?? – just a guess…), has – according to the\u00a0press – finished filming in New Zealand.\u00a0 He’s clearly sad to go, as reported here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 (If you’re curious about Fry’s comments about broadband services, as mentioned in the article, you can read more here<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

What this means regarding what is ‘in the can’ 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’m pondering is this: once he’s back in Britain, I wonder how soon the actor will find time to\u00a0stop by the Hobbit pub in Southampton?\u00a0 Perhaps he’ll wait till cast mate Ian McKellen can join him, later in the summer<\/a>….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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