Stephen Colbert doesn’t have to fear about his subsequent gig after he indicators off as host on CBS’s The Late Show on May 21. The late-night host will probably be embarking on what’s arguably his dream undertaking: adapting the subsequent Lord of the Rings film from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures.
The tentatively titled The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past is about to be written by Colbert, Philippa Boyens and Peter McGee. The trio will be a part of forces with the wizards behind the New Line franchise: Sir Peter Jackson, Dame Fran Walsh and Boyens.
Colbert revealed that the movie will probably be primarily based on “Fogs on the Barrow-downs,” the eighth chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring, the place Hobbits are trapped by a Barrow-wight in an unnatural fog. The story additionally features a fan favourite character omitted from the earlier movies, Tom Bombadil.
The subsequent movie in the collection is Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, directed by Gollum himself, Andy Serkis and tailored by Walsh, Boyens, Arty Papageorgiou and Phoebe Gittins. The film is due out on Dec. 17, 2027.
The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past is about fourteen years after the passing of Frodo. Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their journey. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has found a long-buried secret and is decided to uncover why the War of the Ring was very practically misplaced earlier than it even started.
“You know what the books mean to me and what your films mean to me, but the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in the Fellowship that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day,” Colbert mentioned in a video with Peter Jackson asserting the undertaking.
The late-night speak present host contemplated if they’d “make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies” that had already been made.
Colbert has lengthy been generally known as an obsessed Lord of the Rings fan, even internet hosting panels at Comic-Con for each the Amazon collection and 2014’s The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies.
Watch under for a Late Show clip wherein Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, together with director Peter Jackson, attempt to stump Colbert with LOTR trivia.
Jackson joked with Colbert about discovering the time to adapt the movie, to which the Late Show host joked, “It turns out I’m going to be free starting this summer.” Colbert mentioned that if he have been nonetheless internet hosting the late-night present, he couldn’t have tailored the e book at the identical time he hosted the CBS present.
Altogether, the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit collection, throughout six films, have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide.
