{"id":927,"date":"2006-11-22T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/22\/mckellen-hard-to-imagine-any-other-director-matching-pj\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T11:36:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T17:36:24","slug":"mckellen-hard-to-imagine-any-other-director-matching-pj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/22\/927-mckellen-hard-to-imagine-any-other-director-matching-pj\/","title":{"rendered":"McKellen: &#8216;Hard to imagine any other director matching PJ&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Undoubtedly fueled by dozens of emails on the subject Sir Ian McKellen decided to update the e-post section on his website today. The main topic? Why the situation between Peter Jackson and New Line of course! McKellen states &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to imagine any other director matching  his achievement in Tolkien country.&#8221; However, he is not too glum about the future: &#8220;We will have to await developments but being an optimist I am hoping that New Line, MGM and Wingnut can settle outstanding problems so that the long expected &#8220;Hobbit&#8221; is filmed sooner rather than later.&#8221; Read his full answer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/epost\/lotr\/061122.htm\"target=\"new\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undoubtedly fueled by dozens of emails on the subject Sir Ian McKellen decided to update the e-post section&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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_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-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-eX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}