Stephen Colbert, well-known devotee to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, is co-writing a “Lord of the Rings” film along with his son.
Warner Bros introduced this week that Colbert will script “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past” together with collection veteran Philippa Boyens and Peter McGee, Colbert’s son. Producer Peter Jackson revealed Colbert’s involvement in a social media video that launched a “very special partner” on the movie.
“It took me a few years to scrape my courage into a pile to give you a call, but about two years ago I did,” Colbert advised Jackson. “You liked it enough to talk to me about it, and ever since then, the two of us have been working with the brilliant Philippa Boyens on how to develop this story.”
“Shadow of the Past” will come after Andy Serkis’ upcoming “The Hunt of Gollum,” which is about to reach in theaters subsequent yr.
Colbert stated that a number of years in the past, whereas speaking along with his son, he considered a possible framing system for the movie, which follows a brand new journey for Sam, Merry and Pippin 14 years after the passing of Frodo.
“You know what the books mean to me, and what your films mean to me,” Colbert stated. “But the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in (‘The Fellowship of the Ring’) that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day.”
“I thought: ‘Oh, wait, maybe that could be its own story that could fit into the larger story. Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made?’” added Colbert.
Colbert’s “The Late Show” on CBS is to air its final episode on May 21 after the community introduced it was canceling the late evening present final July.
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