{"id":954,"date":"2006-11-14T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/14\/the-hobbit-drawing-slowly-closer\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T22:05:43","slug":"the-hobbit-drawing-slowly-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/14\/954-the-hobbit-drawing-slowly-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit Drawing Slowly Closer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\">Comingsoon.net<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\">Variety<\/a> are reporting that MGM&#8217;s discussions with Peter Jackson about The Hobbit are at &#8216;an advanced stage&#8217;, with a view to production beginning in 2008 or 2009. The two-film concept is also apparently taking shape. The reports, citing MGM Chairman Harry Sloan as the source, suggest that the first would be a direct adaptation of The Hobbit, and the second would be drawn from &#8220;footnotes and source material connecting &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; with &#8216;The Lord of the Rings'&#8221;. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117953908.html?categoryid=19&#038;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=17549\" target=\"_blank\">Comingsoon<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Comingsoon.net and Variety are reporting that MGM&#8217;s discussions with Peter Jackson about The Hobbit are at &#8216;an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-954","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-fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}