{"id":9529,"date":"2010-10-25T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2010-10-25T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T19:07:40","slug":"peter-jackson-on-the-hobbit-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/25\/peter-jackson-on-the-hobbit-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson on The Hobbit dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Peter-Jackson-on-the-disputes-over-The-Hobbit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9530 alignnone\" title=\"Peter Jackson on the disputes over The Hobbit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Peter-Jackson-on-the-disputes-over-The-Hobbit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Jackson<\/strong> recently gave a lengthy interview about whether or not upcoming film version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehobbitblog.com\/\">The Hobbit<\/a> will be filmed in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to TV New Zealand he gave his side of a dispute which involves local acting unions who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-11414204\">threatened to boycott<\/a> the production.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XoUN2AGxrnA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XoUN2AGxrnA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Guillermo del Toro was initially going to direct but left the project in May (due to delays caused by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/MGM-s-Wallet-Still-Empty-The-Hobbit-Still-In-Jeopardy-19370.html\">MGM&#8217;s financial situation<\/a>) and Jackson replaced him in July.<\/p>\n<p>Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, and Hugo Weaving, who all appeared in in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, will reprise their roles, even though the films are a prequel.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehobbitblog.com\/\">Official blog for The Hobbit<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0903624\/\">The Hobbit<\/a> at the IMDb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jackson recently gave a lengthy interview about whether or not upcoming film version of The Hobbit will be filmed in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[97,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529"}],"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=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}