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From the files marked “Seriously, is nothing sacred anymore?” comes news of yet more Lord Of The Rings. Remember when it was something carefully preserved and respected? Even the overly engineered movies based on The Hobbit knew this.
Well, now it seems like it is open season on the works of Tolkien. They need some kind of cinematic universe. They are all the rage, these days, cinematic universes. That’s before we even mention the travesty that was The Rings Of Power.
Warner Bros. has revealed that a brand new Lord Of The Rings movie is in development, but what’s this? It is being developed by Stephen Colbert and his son.
What? The dancing vaccine guy off TV who thinks the name “Colbert” is French? That guy? Jesus!
The announcement came Tuesday night via the studio’s various social media accounts, with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson talking about The Hunt for Gollum, which is due out next year, before they unveiled the new project, with self-confessed Tolkien fanatic Colbert saying:
“You know what the books mean to me, and what your films mean to me But the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in [‘The Fellowship of the Ring’] that ya’ll never developed into the first movie back in the day. It’s basically the chapter ‘Three Is Company’ [Chapter III] through ‘Fog on the Barrow-Downs’ [Chapter VIII]. And I thought, ‘Oh, wait, maybe that could be its own story that could fit into the larger story. Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made?’”
The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Past is set fourteen years after the passing of Frodo. Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began.
Colbert had a small role in 2013’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and directed Jackson, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, and Elijah Wood, in the 2019 short film Darrylgorn, which is set in Middle-earth.
Long-time Rings collaborator Phillipa Boyens is also involved.
Whatever happens, it could always be worse:
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