{"id":68078,"date":"2013-01-06T07:48:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T12:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=68078"},"modified":"2013-01-06T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T12:48:51","slug":"total-film-james-mcavoy-says-he-wants-to-play-gandalf-in-the-silmarillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/01\/06\/68078-total-film-james-mcavoy-says-he-wants-to-play-gandalf-in-the-silmarillion\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Film: James McAvoy says he wants to play Gandalf in The Silmarillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-68079 no-lazyload\" alt=\"James McAvoy\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/james-mcavoy-says-he-wants-to-play-gandalf-in-the-silmarillion-124407-00-470-75.jpg\" width=\"329\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/james-mcavoy-says-he-wants-to-play-gandalf-in-the-silmarillion-124407-00-470-75.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/james-mcavoy-says-he-wants-to-play-gandalf-in-the-silmarillion-124407-00-470-75-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the latest edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalfilm.com\/news\/james-mcavoy-says-he-wants-to-play-gandalf-in-the-silmarillion\" target=\"_blank\">Total Film Magazine<\/a>, James McAvoy reveals he would like to play a younger Gandalf if a <em>prequel<\/em> was ever made. (Before getting too excited &#8211; or not &#8211; Christopher Tolkien is pretty adamant he would never sell the film rights to the Silmarillion.)<\/p>\n<p>From TotalFilm.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019d like to play Gandalf,\u201d he told us, laughing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Gandalf: Origins\u2019, we offer? \u201cIt\u2019s called The Silmarillion! It\u2019s a collection of poems and songs that chart the ancient history of Middle-earth. My true geek is coming to the fore, but they\u2019re really, really beautiful stories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn part of that is the genesis of Gandalf, or Mithrandir, or Stormcrow, or any of his many, many names. Anyway, maybe that\u2019s the one!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would McAvoy make a good Gandalf? Do you think the Silmarillion rights will ever be sold? Tell us what you think below! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalfilm.com\/news\/james-mcavoy-says-he-wants-to-play-gandalf-in-the-silmarillion\" target=\"_blank\">TotalFilm.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest edition of Total Film Magazine, James McAvoy reveals he would like to play a younger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":68079,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[238,153,6,98,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christopher_tolkien","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkbooks","category-silmarillion","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/james-mcavoy-says-he-wants-to-play-gandalf-in-the-silmarillion-124407-00-470-75.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hI2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68078","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=68078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68081,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68078\/revisions\/68081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}