""You know what the books mean to me, and what your films mean to me," Colbert told Jackson in a video announcing the project. "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?""
Warner Bros. is set to produce The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Past, a new film co-written by Stephen Colbert, his son Peter McGee, and Philippa Boyens. The film draws inspiration from six chapters of JRR Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring that were not included in Peter Jackson's adaptation. The story follows Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin as they retrace their adventure, while Sam's daughter, Elanor, uncovers a hidden secret related to the War of the Ring. Colbert plans to start the script after his Late Show tenure ends.
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