{"id":61117,"date":"2012-08-22T18:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=61117"},"modified":"2012-08-22T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T23:21:12","slug":"hobbits-success-hinges-on-martin-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/22\/61117-hobbits-success-hinges-on-martin-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbit&#8217;s success hinges on Martin Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/01\/28\/53168-new-hobbit-photo-bifur-dwalin-bilbo-bofur-oin\/thehobbit_630\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53169\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-53169 no-lazyload\" title=\"Yahoo! Movies Exclusive\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/thehobbit_630-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/thehobbit_630-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/thehobbit_630.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a> Although <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;<\/span> features several <em>Lord of The Rings<\/em> returning cast members, <em>Ian McKellen<\/em>, <em>Cate Blanchett<\/em>, <em>Elijah Wood<\/em> and others reprise their roles, Associated Press writes that the much of the film&#8217;s potential hinges on newcomer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Martian Freeman<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers were so set on having <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Martin Freeman<\/span> to play <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bilbo<\/span> they halted production for three months while Freeman returned to British TV to reprise his role as <em>Dr Watson<\/em> <em>&#8220;Sherlock<\/em>&#8220;. Peter Jackson says <em>&#8220;It was sort of unheard of for a big-budget movie, but because we wanted him so badly, the studio supported us, and we made that provision in our schedule,&#8221;<\/em>, &#8220;<em>He carries the movie. You get that casting wrong and you&#8217;re in huge trouble.<\/em>&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-08-22\/hollywoods-3-bs-for-fall-bond-bella-bilbo\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; features several Lord of The Rings returning cast members, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"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":[114,499,497,115,7,4,1260,74,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-production-directors","category-hobbit-director","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-martin-freeman","category-jackson","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fTL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61117","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61117"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61125,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61117\/revisions\/61125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}