{"id":20732,"date":"2012-02-09T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=20732"},"modified":"2012-07-06T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T07:06:36","slug":"billy-connolly-to-star-in-peter-jacksons-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/billy-connolly-to-star-in-peter-jacksons-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Connolly to star in Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Billy-Conolly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20733 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Billy Conolly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Billy-Conolly-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Billy-Conolly-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Billy-Conolly-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Billy-Conolly-616x462.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Billy-Conolly.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Director Peter Jackson has confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Billy Connolly will star in The Hobbit, saying, &#8220;We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of the dwarves, than&#8230; the Big Yin himself. With Billy stepping into this role the cast of The Hobbit is now complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comedian has previously starred in Gulliver&#8217;s Travels and The X-Files: I Want To Believe and he now joins a cast that includes Barry Humphries, Stephen Fry, James Nesbitt and Evangeline Lilly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Billy Connolly lands the role of dwarf Dain Ironfoot in The Hobbit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":20733,"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":[1,2615,140],"tags":[2468,79],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Billy-Conolly.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20732"}],"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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}