{"id":70153,"date":"2013-03-23T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70153"},"modified":"2013-03-23T22:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T03:51:36","slug":"peter-jackson-planning-novelisation-of-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/23\/70153-peter-jackson-planning-novelisation-of-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson planning novelisation of The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sir-Peter-Jackson-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"ANDREW GORRIE\/The Dominion Post\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-60771 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sir-Peter-Jackson-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sir-Peter-Jackson.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/> Kiwi <b>satire<\/b> website The Civilian pokes some fun at Peter Jackson, envisioning a scenario where the three Hobbit screenwriters plan to novelise the three Hobbit films. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AWARD-WINNING New Zealand director Peter Jackson has said he\u2019s considering a novel adaptation of his popular film trilogy The Hobbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first film in the series, was released late last year to widespread popularity, grossing more than $1,000,000,000 worldwide at the box office. That success has inspired Jackson \u2013 who was reportedly \u201ccaptivated\u201d by his story \u2013 to make it available in other mediums.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFran and I were talking about it when we were writing the screenplay together\u201d said Jackson, referring to co-producer Fran Walsh. \u201cAnd there were several points where we just thought to ourselves \u2018Wow, I really feel like this could be a book.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackson says he\u2019s taking the project very seriously, and revealed that he\u2019d already been in talks with several popular authors, including J.K Rowling, Lee Child, Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecivilian.co.nz\/peter-jackson-planning-novelization-of-the-hobbit\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwi satire website The Civilian pokes some fun at Peter Jackson, envisioning a scenario where the three Hobbit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[736,65,4,74,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fool","category-walsh","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/195800_141884481557_4189107_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ifv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70153","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70158,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70153\/revisions\/70158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}