{"id":955,"date":"2006-11-14T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/14\/major-hobbit-wonders-from-variety-interview\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T21:46:47","slug":"major-hobbit-wonders-from-variety-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/14\/955-major-hobbit-wonders-from-variety-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Hobbit Wonders from Variety Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Ringer Mark sends a long this great tidbit from Variety:<\/p>\n<p><em>As for &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; Sloan confirmed that MGM was in advanced talks with Peter Jackson to make two movies based on JRR Tolkein&#8217;s &#8220;prequel&#8221; to &#8220;The Lord of the Rings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first would be a direct adaptation of &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; and the second would be drawn from &#8220;footnotes and source material connecting &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; with &#8216;Lord of the Rings,&#8217; &#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Sloan did not reveal when these projects might be ready to start shoot-ing. An MGM spokesman emphasized that negotiations with Jackson are still in progress, and that production isn&#8217;t likely until 2008 or even 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117953908.html?categoryid=19&#038;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>FOOTNOTE: <br \/>TolKIEN!!! TolKIEN!!! By the time &#8220;The Return of the King&#8221; came out, most journalists could spell his name correctly. Evidently it was too much to expect that might last. &#8211; Tehanu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringer Mark sends a long this great tidbit from Variety: As for &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; Sloan confirmed that MGM&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","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-fp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}