The late-night host is going from CBS to the Shire to work on a new 'Lord of the Rings' movie with his son.
Warner Bros. announced early Wednesday that Colbert will script “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past” along with series veteran Philippa Boyens and Peter McGee, Colbert's son. Producer Peter Jackson revealed Colbert's involvement in“It took me a few years to scrape my courage into a pile to give you a call, but about two years ago I did,” Colbert told Jackson.
“You liked it enough to talk to me about it, and ever since then, the two of us have been working with the brilliant Philippa Boyens on how to develop this story.”Stephen Colbert will end his ‘Late Show' run next year as CBS cancels franchise Colbert said that a few years ago, while talking with his son, he thought of a potential framing device for the film, which follows a new adventure for Sam, Merry and Pippin 14 years after the passing of Frodo. “You know what the books mean to me, and what your films mean to me,” Colbert said. “But the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day.” “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?’” added Colbert. Colbert's “The Late Show” on CBS is to air its last episode on May 21 after the network announced it was Though the "Late Show" was the top-rated network program in its time slot and nominated for an "Outstanding Talk Series" Emmy just days earlier, CBS executives said in a press release that the cancellation was "purely a financial decision."
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