Stephen Colbert doesn’t have to worry about his next gig after he signs off as host on CBS’s The Late Show on May 21. The late-night show cost will be embarking on what is arguably a dream project for him: adapting the next Lord of the Rings movie from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures.
The tentatively titled The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past is set to be written by Colbert, Philippa Boyens, and Peter McGee, and will join forces with Sir Peter Jackson, Dame Fran Walsh and Boyens.
Colbert revealed that the film will be based on “Fogs on the Barrow-downs,” the eighth chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring, where Hobbits are trapped by a Barrow-wight in an unnatural fog.
This is the second Lord of the Rings movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s appendices. The next one is Lord of the Rings: The
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