Stephen Colbert is creating a brand new Lord of the Rings film at Warner Bros.
In a video posted to Warner Bros.’ X account Tuesday night (March 24), the franchise’s longtime big-screen adaptation director, Peter Jackson, revealed Colbert is co-writing a model new movie about Center Earth alongside his son, Peter McGee, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Philippa Boyens.
The concept for the movie, tentatively titled The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Previous, was conceived by Colbert, who has been working to develop a script for the previous two years.
“The factor I discovered myself studying again and again had been the six chapters early on in [The Fellowship of the Ring] that ya’ll by no means developed into the primary film again within the day. It’s principally the chapter ‘Three is Firm’ [Chapter III] by ‘Fog on the Barrow-Downs’ [Chapter VIII]. And I believed, ‘Oh, wait, perhaps that could possibly be its personal story that would match into the bigger story. Might we make one thing that was utterly devoted to the books whereas additionally being utterly devoted to the flicks that you just guys had already made?’” Colbert tells Jackson within the video.
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For those who didn’t know, Colbert is a longtime Lord of the Rings fan. The late-night TV host and author appeared in a small cameo function in 2013’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. He additionally directed a 2019 quick movie referred to as Darrylgorn, which is about in Center-earth.
In the meantime, talking at a fan occasion earlier this 12 months, Elijah Wooden, who performs the Hobbit Frodo Baggins within the movie sequence, teased that further Lord of the Rings films had been being thought-about for growth. Followers can solely marvel if that is simply one of many potential tasks Wooden was referring to.
The following Lord of the Rings film to hit theaters shall be The Hunt for Gollum, scheduled for launch on December 17, 2027.
So, What Is The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Previous About?
The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Previous will inform a narrative pulled from J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Fellowship of the Ring that didn’t make it into Jackson’s 2001 film.
Deadline stories the film shall be largely primarily based on the e book’s early chapters, emphasizing its eighth chapter, “Fogs on the Barrow-downs,” through which the Hobbits develop into trapped in a sinister fog.
In accordance with the movie’s official synopsis, per Selection:
Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin got down to retrace the primary steps of their journey. In the meantime, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has found a long-buried secret and is decided to uncover why the Warfare of the Ring was very almost misplaced earlier than it even started.
The movie can even characteristic Tom Bombadil — a fan-favorite character from the e book who was not included in Jackson’s 2000s trilogy.
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