From Fox News: Late-night host Stephen Colbert revealed in a video announcement Tuesday that he will co-write the next “Lord of the Rings” movie after his program ends in May.
“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’ that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day,” Colbert said in a video with Peter Jackson, the director of the hit “Lord of the Rings” movies.
Colbert said the next film would be based on “Fog on the Barrow-downs,” chapter eight of “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first installment in the fantasy trilogy from J.R.R. Tolkien.
Colbert, Philippa Boyens and Peter McGee will write the script for the film, which is titled “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past,” according to Deadline.
CBS announced last year that Colbert’s program would be canceled this spring. The show is set to end on May 21.
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