{"id":41070,"date":"2017-08-30T20:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T00:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=41070"},"modified":"2018-12-04T23:57:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:57:54","slug":"lily-collins-joins-j-r-r-tolkien-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/30\/lily-collins-joins-j-r-r-tolkien-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Collins Joins J R R Tolkien Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lily-Collins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lily-Collins-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lily-Collins.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Lily-Collins-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lily Collins has joined the cast of the upcoming biopic <strong>Tolkien<\/strong>, centered on famed fantasy novelist J. R. R. Tolkien.<\/p>\n<p>Collins is in talks to play Edith Bratt, Tolkien&#8217;s life-long love and muse. In addition to being his wife, Bratt served as the inspiration for the elves Arwen in <em>Lord Of The Rings<\/em> and L\u00fathien Tin\u00faviel in <em>The Silmarillion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tolkien is set to be played by <strong>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/strong> co-star Nicholas Hoult.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/lily-collins-joins-nicholas-hoult-jrr-tolkien-biopic-1033539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tolkien, written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, explores the early life of the novelist as he finds love, friendship and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts. When the horrors of World War I envelope Tolkien&#8217;s life, they threaten to tear this &#8220;fellowship&#8221; apart, and he questions the very meaning and purpose of his art. Instead, he finds a way to use these experiences as inspiration for his famous works, among them The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actress will play the muse and wife of the famed LORD OF THE RINGS novelist.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/30\/lily-collins-joins-j-r-r-tolkien-biopic\/\" title=\"Lily Collins Joins J R R Tolkien Biopic\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1822,3740,2923,6872],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-j-r-r-tolkien","9":"tag-lily-collins","10":"tag-nicholas-hoult","11":"tag-tolkien"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41070"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=41070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}