{"id":94569,"date":"2014-11-13T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=94569"},"modified":"2014-11-13T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:54:07","slug":"peter-jackson-chats-about-finishing-off-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/11\/13\/94569-peter-jackson-chats-about-finishing-off-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson chats about finishing off The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><figure id=\"attachment_76809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76809\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jackson1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Jackson stands on the set of Lake-Town\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76809 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jackson1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jackson1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jackson stands on the set of Lake-Town<\/figcaption><\/figure> Director Peter Jackson chatted with New Zealand media the other week about The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies&#8230; and what he (and Wingnut Films) plans to do after it&#8217;s all over.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently he&#8217;s pretty busy right now though. Unsurprising!<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230; we have about two weeks to finish the film off, and there&#8217;s 22 hours a day at work and I get about two or three hours a sleep at night.<\/p>\n<p>So it is pretty full-on at the moment and hard to extrapolate. I&#8217;ll be delighted when it&#8217;s finished, I can tell you that. Absolutely thrilled. But obviously there will be a bittersweet quality to it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Radio New Zealand News published this back on November 6 (there&#8217;s lots of news at the moment). So it means that The Hobbit may be complete and in the can around the end of next week.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson says he&#8217;s also still keen to pursue the WWII story <i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dam_Busters_%28film%29\" target=\"_blank\">Dambusters<\/a><\/i> (yay!). He also expressed a desire to focus more on New Zealand stories: &#8220;there&#8217;s other Kiwi stories that Fran and I have been wanting to get onto screen for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VfDUCqJ5c9s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Peter Jackson chatted with New Zealand media the other week about The Hobbit: The Battle Of The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":76809,"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":[497,4,74,167,148,2490,2497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-production-directors","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-jackson-other-films","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-five-armies","category-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jackson1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-oBj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94569","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=94569"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94576,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94569\/revisions\/94576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}