NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert, well-known devotee to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Center Earth, is co-writing a “Lord of the Rings” film together with his son.
Warner Bros. introduced early Wednesday that Colbert will script “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Previous” together with collection 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 accomplice” on the movie.
“It took me just a few years to scrape my braveness right into a pile to provide you a name, however about two years in the past I did,” Colbert advised Jackson. “You preferred 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.”
“Shadow of the Previous” will come after Andy Serkis’ upcoming “The Hunt of Gollum,” which is about to reach in theaters subsequent 12 months.
Colbert mentioned that just a few years in the past, whereas speaking together with his son, he considered a possible framing system for the movie, which follows a brand new journey for Sam, Merry and Pippin 14 years after the passing of Frodo.
“You realize what the books imply to me, and what your movies imply to me,” Colbert mentioned. “However the factor I discovered myself studying again and again 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.”
“I believed: ‘Oh, wait, perhaps that could possibly 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 simply guys had already made?’” added Colbert.
Colbert’s “The Late Present” on CBS is to air its final episode on Might 21 after the community introduced it was canceling the late evening present final July.
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