{"id":915,"date":"2006-11-25T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T21:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/25\/sean-connery-the-grey\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T21:09:58","slug":"sean-connery-the-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/25\/915-sean-connery-the-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Connery the Grey?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Will<\/b>: The Scotsman<\/b> reports that New Line Cinema initially wanted Sir Sean Connery for the role of Gandalf. They write, “Sean Connery turned down the largest paycheck in cinema history when he refused an offer to play Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it has emerged.”<\/i> [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Will: The Scotsman reports that New Line Cinema initially wanted Sir Sean Connery for the role of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t