{"id":14694,"date":"2011-05-19T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=14694"},"modified":"2011-05-19T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:55:21","slug":"stephen-fry-added-to-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/stephen-fry-added-to-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry added to The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14695\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/stephen-fry-added-to-the-hobbit\/attachment\/stephen_fry_cropped\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14695\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"Stephen_Fry_cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stephen_Fry_cropped-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stephen_Fry_cropped-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stephen_Fry_cropped.jpg 367w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thoughtful funnyman and national treasure Stephen Fry is set to appear in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/hugo-weaving-signs-on-for-the-hobbit\/\">The Hobbit<\/a><\/em> as the Master of Laketown, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/behind-the-scenes-of-the-hobbit\/\">Peter Jackson<\/a> said, &#8220;I\u2019ve known Stephen for several years, and we\u2019re developing a\u00a0<em>Dambusters <\/em>movie together. In addition to his writing skills, he\u2019s a terrific actor and will create a very memorable Master for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The director also revealed some more casting news, saying, &#8220;The Master\u2019s conniving civil servant, Alfrid, will be played by Ryan Gage. Ryan is a great young actor who we originally cast in a small role, but we liked him so much, we promoted him to the much larger Alfrid part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast, and certainly not least, is Conan Stevens, who will be playing an Orc called Azog (Orcs are never called Roger or Dennis for some strange reason). And yes that\u2019s his name\u2014Conan! Isn\u2019t that cool? Azog is played by Conan! Here\u2019s a photo of Conan and I together\u2026 I\u2019m pretty tall, probably at least 6\u2019 5\u201d or \u00a06\u2019 6\u201d I would guess, so that gives you some clue how tall Conan is! You can learn all about him at www.conanstevens.com.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three more characters cast in the fantasy epic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":14695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[473,81,1927,79],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stephen_Fry_cropped.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}