{"id":2209061,"date":"2024-03-29T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-western-is-back-following-costners-lead-the-lord-of-the-rings-star-wrote-directed-upcoming-western-epic\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:53:47","slug":"the-western-is-back-following-costners-lead-the-lord-of-the-rings-star-wrote-directed-upcoming-western-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-western-is-back-following-costners-lead-the-lord-of-the-rings-star-wrote-directed-upcoming-western-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Western genre makes a comeback: &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217; actor follows Costner&#8217;s steps, helms new Western film"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-western-is-back-following-costners-lead-the-lord-of-the-rings-star-wrote-directed-upcoming-western-epic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2209061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor\u2064 Viggo Mortensen has transitioned from fantasy to Westerns in a\u2064 film \u200dthat signifies the resurgence of the \u200bWestern\u200c genre. Renowned for his \u2063role in\u2063 &#8220;Lord of the Rings,&#8221; Mortensen both wrote and directed this upcoming Western epic. The Western genre is making a strong comeback, as\u200c highlighted in a\u2062 recent post on The Western Journal website. Viggo Mortensen, known for his role in &#8220;Lord\u200c of the Rings,&#8221; has shifted from fantasy to Westerns by writing and directing an upcoming Western epic. This move symbolizes the comeback of the Western genre, which is gaining momentum as featured in a recent article on The Western Journal website.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Actor Viggo Mortensen has traded in the world of fantasy for the gritty frontier in a movie that shows Westerns are back in style. The \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d star [\u2026]\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/western-back-following-costners-lead-lord-rings-star-wrote-directed-upcoming-western-epic\/\">The Western Is Back: Following Costner&#8217;s Lead, &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217; Star Wrote, Directed Upcoming Western Epic<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Viggo Mortensen shifts from fantasy to the Wild West in a film signaling the revival of Westerns. Known for his role in \u201cLord of the Rings,\u201d Mortensen takes on writing and directing duties for this upcoming Western epic. The trend continues with Westerns making a strong comeback in the entertainment industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2209062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/viggo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/viggo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}