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 Tolkein 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, Jackson first provided replace on Andy Serkis’ The Hunt for Gollum, saying, “It’s wanting superb. The script is coming collectively rather well, and I feel 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 venture, which he says shall be primarily based on a chapter from The Fellowship of the Ring: Chapter VIII, “Fog on the Barrow-Downs.”
“You understand what the books imply to me, and what your movies imply to me,” Colbert advised Jackson. “However the factor I discovered myself studying over and over had 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 principally the chapter ‘Three is Firm’ by means of ‘Fog on the Barrow-Downs.’ And I believed, ‘Oh, wait, possibly that might be its personal story that would match into the bigger story. May we make one thing that was fully trustworthy to the books whereas additionally being fully trustworthy to the films that you just guys had already made?'”
Colbert stated that he began discussing the thought together with his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, developed a “framing machine 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 bought the inexperienced mild from New Line and Warner Bros.
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 Warfare of the Ring was very almost misplaced earlier than it even started.
The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Previous doesn’t have an introduced launch date. The subsequent movie within the franchise, The Hunt for Gollum, hits theaters on Dec. 17, 2027.
