{"id":28067,"date":"2010-05-10T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=28067"},"modified":"2010-05-10T12:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:36:02","slug":"anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Hopkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221; as the film&#8217;s main villain.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Russell is directing the the action adventure which is about a young military commander (Liam Hemsworth)  joins the bandit forces of Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Genie of the magic lamp after his king is killed in a brutal coup.  Together they all band together to rescue the  beautiful queen Scheherazade.  Hopkins would play the evil sorcerer Pharotu, whom Sinbad has a grudge against for killing his true love, a mermaid.<\/p>\n<p>The film was written by Russell and Barry P. Ambrose, with Inferno&#8217;s Bill Johnson producing alongside Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray of Mayhem Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Heat Vision Blog)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28071\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Hopkins Joins Arabian Nights\" title=\"Anthony Hopkins Joins Arabian Nights\" width=\"229\" height=\"280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28071\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Hopkins Joins Arabian Nights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Hopkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221; as the film&#8217;s main villain. Chuck Russell is directing the the action adventure which is about a young military commander (Liam Hemsworth) joins the bandit forces of Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Genie of the magic lamp after his king is killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":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":[1],"tags":[12185,417,11644,11646,11645,12184],"class_list":["post-28067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","tag-ali-baba","tag-anthony-hopkins","tag-arabian-nights","tag-chuck-russell","tag-liam-hemsworth","tag-sinbad"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anthony Hopkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of &quot;Arabian Nights&quot; as the film&#039;s main villain. Chuck Russell is directing the the action\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anthony Hopkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of &quot;Arabian Nights&quot; as the film&#039;s main villain. Chuck Russell is directing the the action\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shockyafans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-05-10T19:36:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"229\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Costa Koutsoutis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@shockya\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@shockya\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Costa Koutsoutis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Costa Koutsoutis\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/26c49d3325a9693f3b6f27b5118368d9\"},\"headline\":\"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-05-10T19:36:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/\"},\"wordCount\":151,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ALI BABA\",\"ANTHONY HOPKINS\",\"ARABIAN NIGHTS\",\"CHUCK RUSSELL\",\"LIAM HEMSWORTH\",\"SINBAD\"],\"articleSection\":[\"NEWS\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/\",\"name\":\"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-05-10T19:36:02+00:00\",\"description\":\"Anthony Hopkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of \\\"Arabian Nights\\\" as the film's main villain. Chuck Russell is directing the the action\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"REAL TALK\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Anakando Media Group\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anakando.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anakando.jpg\",\"width\":237,\"height\":213,\"caption\":\"Anakando Media Group\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shockyafans\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/shockya\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/26c49d3325a9693f3b6f27b5118368d9\",\"name\":\"Costa Koutsoutis\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae038afab421dfa6b22bbd3cd76551e7f12d1ab4ef609b2b35473eed2f469885?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae038afab421dfa6b22bbd3cd76551e7f12d1ab4ef609b2b35473eed2f469885?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Costa Koutsoutis\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/admin\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/author\/costa\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights","description":"Anthony Hopkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of \"Arabian Nights\" as the film's main villain. Chuck Russell is directing the the action","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights","og_description":"Anthony Hopkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of \"Arabian Nights\" as the film's main villain. Chuck Russell is directing the the action","og_url":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shockyafans\/","article_published_time":"2010-05-10T19:36:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":229,"height":280,"url":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Costa Koutsoutis","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@shockya","twitter_site":"@shockya","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Costa Koutsoutis","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/"},"author":{"name":"Costa Koutsoutis","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/26c49d3325a9693f3b6f27b5118368d9"},"headline":"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights","datePublished":"2010-05-10T19:36:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/"},"wordCount":151,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg","keywords":["ALI BABA","ANTHONY HOPKINS","ARABIAN NIGHTS","CHUCK RUSSELL","LIAM HEMSWORTH","SINBAD"],"articleSection":["NEWS"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/","url":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/","name":"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg","datePublished":"2010-05-10T19:36:02+00:00","description":"Anthony Hopkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of \"Arabian Nights\" as the film's main villain. Chuck Russell is directing the the action","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony_hopkins_arabian_nights.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/anthony-hopkins-joining-arabian-nights\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Anthony Hopkins Joining Arabian Nights"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/","name":"","description":"REAL TALK","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Anakando Media Group","url":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anakando.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/anakando.jpg","width":237,"height":213,"caption":"Anakando Media Group"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shockyafans\/","https:\/\/x.com\/shockya"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/26c49d3325a9693f3b6f27b5118368d9","name":"Costa Koutsoutis","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae038afab421dfa6b22bbd3cd76551e7f12d1ab4ef609b2b35473eed2f469885?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae038afab421dfa6b22bbd3cd76551e7f12d1ab4ef609b2b35473eed2f469885?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Costa Koutsoutis"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/admin"],"url":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/author\/costa\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnMiA-7iH","distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}