{"id":1314,"date":"2007-10-05T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/10\/will-the-rings-wizards-re-unite-in-compass\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T15:05:00","slug":"will-the-rings-wizards-re-unite-in-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/10\/will-the-rings-wizards-re-unite-in-compass.html","title":{"rendered":"Will the Rings wizards re-unite in Compass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/Rwa8lJgNglI\/AAAAAAAAAr8\/m4a7zuFaSLk\/s1600-h\/lotr-wizards.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/Rwa8lJgNglI\/AAAAAAAAAr8\/m4a7zuFaSLk\/s400\/lotr-wizards.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">While New Line Cinema continues the long, torturous process of patching things up with Peter Jackson and thereby giving us a film version of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/will-peter-jackson-direct-hobbit-after.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hobbit<\/a><\/i> \u2014 a recent <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20036782_20037403_20142132,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/i> cover story summarizes everything that has happened on that front over the past four years \u2014 the studio is also proceeding with its plans to make Philip Pullman\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/newsbites-knife-hoodwinked-ratatouille.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">His Dark Materials<\/a><\/i> the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/ring-of-power-becomes-alethiometer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cinematic heir<\/a> to Jackson\u2019s adaptation of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/inklings-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/i> (2001-2003).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the Italian website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questeoscurematerie.it\/content\/view\/205\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Queste Oscure Materie<\/a>, as translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.ign.com\/articles\/825\/825263p1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">IGN.com<\/a>, is to be believed, it looks like the film version of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/newsbites-deadly-expelled-indiana.html#4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Golden Compass<\/a><\/i> may feature Ian \u201cGandalf\u201d McKellen as the voice of the armoured bear Iorek Byrnison, while Christopher \u201cSaruman\u201d Lee may play a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/these-are-daemons-in-your-neighbourhood.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Magisterium<\/a> described as \u201ca grumpy man dressed in dark colours, whom we see sitting at a table with another character, whose daemon is a panther.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Whoops, it looks like IGN.com might have been quoting an article from the Italian website that was already in English.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/ian-mckellen-voicing-iorek\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">BridgeToTheStars.net<\/a> links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questeoscurematerie.it\/content\/view\/204\/26\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">this page<\/a>, which adds the news that \u201cthe final scenes in the movie have been heavily reworked . . . at the request of the producers, not of the director.\u201d  Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>OCT 9 UPDATE:  Ian McKellen\u2019s voice can now be heard in Teaser 2, which just went up at <a href=\"http:\/\/media.movies.ign.com\/media\/686\/686290\/vids_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">IGN.com<\/a>.  Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmick.co.uk\/2007\/10\/golden-compass-ending-up-ended.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Film Ick<\/a> passes on a rumour or two concerning just how extensive the changes to the film\u2019s ending might be.  It sounds like scenes that were glimpsed in the teasers might be removed from this first film altogether.<\/p>\n<p>UPPERDATE:  An exclusive and more complete version of the new trailer is now up at <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/feature\/thegoldencompass.html?showVideo=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo! Movies<\/a> \u2014 and hey, look, here\u2019s Lee:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RwwrbZgNg2I\/AAAAAAAAAuE\/Q911J_wTroo\/s1600-h\/goldencompass-christopherlee.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/RwwrbZgNg2I\/AAAAAAAAAuE\/Q911J_wTroo\/s400\/goldencompass-christopherlee.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While New Line Cinema continues the long, torturous process of patching things up with Peter Jackson and thereby giving us a film version of The Hobbit \u2014 a recent Entertainment Weekly cover story summarizes everything that has happened on that front over the past four years \u2014 the studio is also proceeding with its plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will the Rings wizards re-unite in Compass?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While New Line Cinema continues the long, torturous process of patching things up with Peter Jackson and thereby giving us a film version of The Hobbit --\" \/>\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.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/10\/will-the-rings-wizards-re-unite-in-compass.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will the Rings wizards re-unite in Compass?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While New Line Cinema continues the long, torturous process of patching things up with Peter Jackson and thereby giving us a film version of The Hobbit --\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/10\/will-the-rings-wizards-re-unite-in-compass.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-10-05T15:05:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/Rwa8lJgNglI\/AAAAAAAAAr8\/m4a7zuFaSLk\/s400\/lotr-wizards.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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