{"id":39619,"date":"2011-01-11T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=39619"},"modified":"2011-01-11T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:56:23","slug":"ian-mckellen-and-andy-serkis-to-appear-in-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/01\/11\/ian-mckellen-and-andy-serkis-to-appear-in-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis to appear in &#39;sThe Hobbit&#39;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally official! Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis will reprise their roles as Gandalf and Gollum, respectively, in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>. 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It also suffered from possibly losing its main star; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/590315\/the_hobbit_martin_freeman_may_be_bilbo_baggins_after_all.html\">DenofGeek<\/a>, Martin Freeman, who was cast as Bilbo Baggins, was originally unsure of signing onto the project for fear that it would threaten his work on the second season of the wildly successful show <em>Sherlock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Part one of<em>The Hobbit, <\/em>directed by Peter Jackson, is expected to be in theaters next year;\u00a0the plot of the film involves Gandalf recruiting Bilbo on a quest to retrieve a dragon&#8217;s treasure.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39640\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ian_mckellen_andy_serkis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ian_mckellen_andy_serkis.jpg\" alt=\"Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis\" title=\"Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ian_mckellen_andy_serkis.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ian_mckellen_andy_serkis-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally official! 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