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Freshly lauded Cannes Palme d’Or honoree Peter Jackson tells america that Stephen Colbert’s attachment arsenic writer connected a caller Lord of nan Rings movie (getting released aft 2027’s Hunt for Gollum) occurred erstwhile The Late Show host sounded himself for nan gig.
“He was re-reading Lord of nan Rings over Christmas and thought this conception would make a awesome film,” Jackson tells america astatine Cannes.
“He sounded this full idea…I said it sounds interesting, let’s person a spell astatine this, doing a treatment. Philippa Boyens flew complete and Colbert has travel down to New Zealand a mates of times.”
“This is earlier he knew his show was going to get canned.”
“It’s a portion of Lord of nan Rings that we ne'er filmed. There were these large chunks of Lord of nan Rings that we skipped over,” says nan 3x Oscar winner.
The Lord of nan Rings: Shadow of nan Past is based nan conception “Fogs connected nan Barrow-downs,” nan eighth section of The Fellowship of nan Ring, wherever nan Hobbits are trapped by a Barrow-wight successful an unnatural fog. The communicative besides includes a instrumentality favourite characteristic omitted from nan erstwhile films, Tom Bombadil. The characteristic is being adapted from chapters 3 done 8 of Tolkien’s book.
“Next week, he’s doing his last show and nan adjacent time he’ll beryllium a Tolkien screenwriter,” said Jackson astir Colbert.
In addition, successful our video chat above, Jackson expounds connected nan advancement of nan caller Tintin film he’s directing, and shares immoderate Cannes warfare stories astir that clip he sewage successful problem pinch show information for wearing shorts.
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