Stephen Colbert is writing a Lord of the Rings film along with his son

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Stephen Colbert, well-known devotee to J.R.R. Tolkien's Center-earth, is co-writing a Lord of the Rings film along with his son.

Warner Bros. introduced early Wednesday that Colbert will script The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Previous together with sequence 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 particular companion" on the movie.

"It took me just a few years to scrape my braveness right into a pile to present you a name, however about two years in the past I did," Colbert advised Jackson. "You favored it sufficient to speak to me about it, and ever since then, the 2 of us have been working with the good Philippa Boyens on learn how to develop this story."

Colbert mentioned that just a few years in the past, whereas speaking along with his son, he considered a possible framing gadget for the movie, which follows a brand new journey for Sam, Merry and Pippin 14 years after the passing of Frodo.

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"You realize what the books imply to me, and what your movies imply to me," Colbert mentioned. "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."

"I believed: 'Oh, wait, possibly that may very well be its personal story that might match into the bigger story. Might we make one thing that was fully devoted to the books whereas additionally being fully devoted to the films that you just guys had already made?'" added Colbert.

Lengthy line of variations Shadow of the Previous follows an extended sequence of Lord of the Rings variations, together with from Jackson. After his trilogy of movies, the producer/director created the trilogy of prequels based mostly on Tolkien's The Hobbit. He then helped produce the anime The Lord of the Rings: The Struggle of the Rohirrim in 2024.

In the meantime, Shadow of the Previous will come after Andy Serkis' upcoming The Hunt for Gollum, which can also be produced by Jackson and is about to reach in theatres subsequent yr.

Then there's the Amazon Prime prequel sequence — unconnected to Jackson's variations — The Rings of Energy, which was extensively reported as being the most costly present ever created when its first season launched in 2022.

With a price ticket estimated round $1 billion US, it acquired usually beneficial critiques. Whereas filming has reportedly wrapped, the present's third season doesn't but have a confirmed launch date.

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Amazon spent a reported $1 billion US making the primary season of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, a sequence CBC's Eli Glasner calls 'epic and elemental. An incredible begin.' And alongside a veritable slew of different well-received video video games— from 2003's The Return of the King to the Center-Earth sequence within the 2010s — 2023's The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was extensively derided as one of many worst video video games of all time.

2025's cozy recreation Tales of the Shire, from Avatar costume and prop design firm Wētā Workshop, acquired extra combined critiques.

Based on an unconfirmed report from Insider Gaming, a brand new Lord of the Rings recreation supposed to compete with Hogwarts Legacy is rumoured to be in improvement.

As a lifelong fan, Colbert has repeatedly proven off his near-encyclopedic Lord of the Rings information. He has usually had the forged and crew of the varied Lord of the Rings movies — together with Jackson — on his present, whereas steadily difficult visitors to stump him on obscure trivia questions.

To mark The Fellowship of the Ring's twentieth anniversary in 2021, he reunited a lot of the forged for rap tribute to the franchise in a phase on The Late Present.