Overview
- Peter Jackson said at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday that Stephen Colbert pitched the movie about a year ago, before he knew The Late Show would end.
- Jackson connected Colbert with longtime collaborator Philippa Boyens, leading to a year of treatment work that brought Colbert to New Zealand.
- Warner Bros.' official logline credits Colbert, his son Peter McGee, and Boyens, and places the story years after Frodo's death.
- Jackson said the film adapts the Barrow-downs chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring and includes Tom Bombadil, a character left out of earlier films.
- The project is slated to follow Andy Serkis's The Hunt for Gollum, and Jackson said the work helped Colbert process the show's cancellation ahead of his May 21 finale.