{"id":926,"date":"2006-11-22T16:47:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T22:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/22\/the-new-director-of-the-hobbit-is\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T02:36:23","slug":"the-new-director-of-the-hobbit-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/22\/926-the-new-director-of-the-hobbit-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Raimi to Direct Hobbit Movie??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Word from a reliable source indicates that Sam Raimi has been approached to direct THE HOBBIT. Since Peter Jackson&#8217;s (Middle-)earth shattering news that he is off the project, it seems the Spider-Man director may step into his place. Raimi was born on October 23rd, 1959 in Royal Oak, Michigan. His first big hit was &#8216;The Evil Dead&#8217; but he really gained cult status with &#8216;Evil Dead II&#8217;. It is his amazing work on the Spider-Man series that has propelled Raimi to the mainstream. His latest film &#8216;Spider-Man 3&#8217; is due out this May.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no word on Raimi accepting the invitation, it remains to be seen who, if anyone, will be replacing Peter Jackson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word from a reliable source indicates that Sam Raimi has been approached to direct THE HOBBIT. Since Peter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-director","category-hobbit-movie","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-eW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}