Warner Bros. has yet one more Lord of the Rings film in improvement — tentatively titled The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Previous — and we now have J.R.R. Tolkien superfan and soon-to-be-former The Late Present host Stephen Colbert to thank. Colbert and Lord of the Rings trilogy director Peter Jackson revealed Wednesday that they are working collectively on an adaptation of fabric from The Fellowship of the Ring that by no means made it into Jackson’s movie.
In a video posted throughout Warner Bros.’ social media channels, Jackson provided replace on Andy Serkis’ The Hunt for Gollum, saying, “It’s wanting wonderful. The script is coming collectively very well, and I believe it’s going to be a very good movie.” Jackson then introduced “one other movie that we’ll be making after The Hunt for Gollum,” and welcomed a “very particular accomplice” in Colbert.
Colbert then defined the challenge, which he stated will probably be primarily based on a chapter from The Fellowship of the Ring: Chapter VIII, “Fog on the Barrow-downs.”
“You already know what the books imply to me, and what your movies imply to me,” Colbert instructed Jackson. “However the factor I discovered myself studying over and over have been the six chapters early on in The Fellowship [of the Ring] that y’all by no means developed into the primary film again within the day. It’s mainly the chapter ‘Three is Firm’ by way of ‘Fog on the Barrow-downs.’ And I believed, ‘Oh, wait, perhaps that might be its personal story that would match into the bigger story. Might we make one thing that was fully trustworthy to the books whereas additionally being fully trustworthy to the flicks that you simply guys had already made?'”
Colbert stated that he began discussing the thought together with his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, developed a “framing gadget for that story,” and pitched it to Jackson. They then teamed up with Philippa Boyens, screenwriter on the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, and obtained the inexperienced mild from New Line and Warner Bros. Colbert stated he hopes the challenge will probably be “fully trustworthy to the books whereas additionally being fully trustworthy to the flicks.”
Here is the synopsis for The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Previous, as reported by 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 Conflict of the Ring was very practically misplaced earlier than it even started.
“Fog on the Barrow-downs” tells the story of Hobbits Frodo, Merry, and Pippin journeying to the Barrow-downs, the place they turn out to be misplaced in a fog and are captured by the Barrow-wights. The chapter contains an look from Tom Bombadil, a personality who was reduce from Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and later appeared in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy. Shadows of the Previous‘s variation on the story of “Fog on the Barrow-downs” actually opens the door for actors Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan to reprise their roles.
Colbert is famously a Tolkien diehard, routinely flexing his data of Center-earth on his discuss present. In current weeks, he is geeked out over The Lord of the Rings with actors Ian McKellan and Elijah Wooden (the latter is rumored to reprise his position as Frodo sooner or later). Colbert even parlayed his fandom right into a non-speaking cameo position in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Previous doesn’t have an introduced launch date. The following movie within the franchise, The Hunt for Gollum, hits theaters on Dec. 17, 2027.