“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday confirmed that goals can certainly come true, revealing alongside “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson that he’s been quietly working with him for years — and writing a brand-new installment for the beloved franchise.
“Yeah, I’m fairly blissful about it,” Colbert advised Jackson throughout their video name announcement.
There’s arguably no different tv persona with a extra encyclopedic information of the J.R.R. Tolkien books than Colbert, as he has commonly confirmed over the previous 11 years on his “Late Present” throughout some genuinely spectacular pop-quiz trivia segments on the fabric.
“You already know what the books imply to me, and what your movies imply to me,” Colbert advised Jackson. “However the factor I discovered myself studying again and again had been the six chapters early on in ‘The Fellowship’ that y’all by no means developed into the primary film again within the day.”
Colbert stated he’s writing the script along with his son Peter McGee and that the movie can be based mostly on materials from the primary e-book in Tolkien’s collection, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” particularly Chapter 3, “Three Is Firm,” via Chapter 8, “Fog on the Barrow-Downs.”
“I assumed, ‘Oh, wait! Possibly that might be its personal story that might match into the bigger story,’” Colbert advised Jackson. “May 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?”
He stated, “I began speaking it over with my son Peter, who’s additionally a screenwriter, and we labored out what we thought would work, particularly as a framing machine for that story, and 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.”
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The movie is tentatively titled “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Previous” however remains to be in early growth — and a sequel to the upcoming “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” which is able to see Andy Serkis reprise his function because the titular ring-obsessed creature.
The information is definitely heartwarming for followers who’ve recognized about Colbert’s lifelong “Rings” obsession, and people who felt frustration after CBS canceled his present following controversial strain from President Donald Trump’s FCC head, Brendan Carr.
Jackson cheekily requested his new companion Wednesday if he’s certain he’s acquired the time to work on this with him, just for the ousted “Late Present” host to quip that “it seems I’m going to be free beginning this summer time” — as his last “Late Present” episode airs Might 21.
Earlier of their chat, Colbert warmly recalled successful Jackson over along with his concept and pitching it to executives at New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. He advised the Oscar-winning director, “I couldn’t be happier to say that they liked it.”
Colbert fortunately added earlier than signing off, “And so, that’s what we’re going to be engaged on.”