{"id":1524,"date":"2008-03-27T00:27:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T23:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/27\/ian-mckellen-to-return-for-the-hobbit\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T00:27:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T23:27:01","slug":"ian-mckellen-to-return-for-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/03\/27\/ian-mckellen-to-return-for-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen to return for The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ian<\/a>It looks like Ian McKellen<\/strong><\/a> will return as Gandalf<\/a> in the upcoming film version of The Hobbit<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the E-Post section<\/a> of his official website<\/a>, he indicates that he’ll be back as the wizard:<\/p>\n

\n

THE HOBBIT<\/p>\n

Q: So has it come to pass, good Sir McKellen?<\/p>\n

Shall the dreaming masses with their musty books and\u00a0 their blackened pipes at long last hear those immortal words issue from under that famous nose?<\/p>\n

“Yes, yes, my dear sir-and I know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though\u00a0 you don’t remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think I should\u00a0 have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took’s son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!”<\/p>\n

Looking about, I find I share the same hopes as\u00a0 millions of others, so I ask, a single query in a\u00a0 chorus… Will you again be our Gandalf in “The Hobbit” now that the deal is settled?<\/p>\n

A: Yes I will, if Peter Jackson and I have anything to do with it, he being the producer and me being, on the whole, a very lucky actor.\u00a0 I’ve just read your quote out loud – fabulous speech.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Hobbit is scheduled for release in 2011 and will be produced by Peter Jackson<\/a> and directed by Guillermo del Toro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

> Ian McKellen’s official site<\/a>
\n> The Hobbit<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> The announcement in December about The Hobbit (finally) getting greenlit<\/a>
\n> Find out more about Gandalf at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

[Link<\/a> via First Showing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like Ian McKellen will return as Gandalf in the upcoming film version of The Hobbit. In the E-Post section of his official website, he indicates that he’ll be back as the wizard: THE HOBBIT Q: So has it come to pass, good Sir McKellen? Shall the dreaming masses with their musty books and\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}