{"id":30374,"date":"2022-08-16T17:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30374"},"modified":"2022-08-16T17:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:18:38","slug":"rip-wolfgang-petersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30374","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Wolfgang Petersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z081622rip_wolfgang_petersen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker who gained international fame with Das Boot (which he wrote and directed), died August 12, 2022 from pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 Mr. Petersen was 81.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Das Boot<\/em> aka <em>The Boat<\/em> told the story of a WWII, German U-boat crew.\u00a0 The film was nominated for six Academy Awards (including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay).\u00a0 After that Hollywood called and Wolfgang Petersen would go on to direct crow-pleasing movies for the rest of his career.\u00a0 Some of his feature films include: <em>The Never-Ending Story; Shattered; In the Line of Fire; Outbreak; The Perfect Storm<\/em> and <em>Troy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favorite Wolfgang Petersen films are <em>In the Line of Fire<\/em> and <em>Shattered\u00a0<\/em>(which he wrote, directed and produced!).<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Wolfgang Petersen&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker who gained international fame with Das Boot (which he wrote and directed), died August 12,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,17,54,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30375,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374\/revisions\/30375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}