Warner Bros. has unveiled that Stephen Colbert and his son are developing a brand new โLord of the Ringsโ movie. The announcement came Tuesday night via the studioโs various social media accounts.
The video announcement opened with โLord of the Ringsโ director Peter Jackson giving a quick update about the next film in the โLord of the Ringsโ franchise: Andy Serkisโ โThe Hunt for Gollum.โ Jackson said of the project, โAndy is doing a terrific job. Itโs looking amazing. The script is coming together really well and I think itโs going to be a really good film.โ
Jackson then teased his โvery special partner,โ who will be helping develop the film after โThe Hunt for Gollum.โ That partner was none other than โThe Late Show Hostโ Colbert, who Jackson patched in through a video call. Colbert, a vocal Tolkien fanatic, then explained that his film will come from chapters of โThe Fellowship of the Ringโ that didnโt make it into Jacksonโs 2001 adaptation.
โYou know what the books mean to me, and what your films mean to me,โ Colbert told Jackson. โBut the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in [โThe Fellowship of the Ringโ] that yaโll never developed into the first movie back in the day. Itโs basically the chapter โThree is Companyโ [Chapter III] through โFog on the Barrow-Downsโ [Chapter VIII]. And I thought, โOh, 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?’โ
The late-night host said that after coming up with this idea, he began discussing it with his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, and worked out a โframing deviceโ for the film. After the groundwork was laid, Colbert called Jackson, and over the last two years, theyโve been working with screenwriter Philippa Boyens to develop a script.
Tolkien penned his legendary fantasy trilogy in the 1950s after the success of his 1937 book, โThe Hobbit.โ Peter Jackson adapted โThe Lord of the Ringsโ into three films, released in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Widely considered to be Jacksonโs most celebrated work, the films earned 17 Oscar wins, with 11 of those going to the final chapter, โThe Return of the King.โ Jackson also adapted โThe Hobbit,โ splitting the comparatively slim novel into three parts. Those movies were released in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
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