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secretariats Mar 25, 2026 +112

I know he's a Tolkien super fan, but I was not expecting this headline lol -- especially given that David Ellison killed his show and will now own Warner Bros

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UserWithno-Name Mar 25, 2026 +27

Well this deal has 0 to do with Ellison because the deal still has to go thru, so Warner and hbo still operate like business as usual where they (ellisons) have no real power & the people in charge are still the same people who did Superman and sinners and everything last year, been doing game of thrones for all this time, curbed, the Pitt, etc etc. So this movie and contract are not under their approval yet and he could even finish it before that finalizes. It depends on a few things. Most ellisons can do is put pressure to do or not do what they prefer, but they still have to pass all the regulation and not just of the USA.

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Stranger2306 Mar 25, 2026 +106

I hated this at first but read the article - Colbert isn't remaking the movies. he's adapting the early part of Book 1 that Jackson did not adapt. GREAT

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Jon-El_Snowman Mar 25, 2026 -33

He is not. Colbert wrote a fan fiction.

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somekindofdruiddude Mar 25, 2026 +16

Source?

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yesrushgenesis2112 Mar 25, 2026 +9

He wrote a fanfiction framing device to place the content of those chapters in a new adventure set 14 years after Frodo leaves. The source is the article. Sometime fan fiction is ok.

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somekindofdruiddude Mar 25, 2026 +7

That's not what the other poster said. The meat of this sounds like the Tom Bombadil stuff everyone of my Tolkien fan friends complained about being left out of the Peter Jackson movies.

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Omegabird420 Mar 25, 2026 +2

Tom Bombadil is a weird omission but even in the book I remember just him existing being weird. He's basically implied to be incredibly powerful/a demigod,the ring has no effect on him and the only reason he's not given the ring for safekeeping is that he basically doesn't give a sh*t about it so he might lose it. Along with having the power to end the story, it's also one of the 100000 stops that breaks the pacing in the book.

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somekindofdruiddude Mar 25, 2026 +1

You should argue with my wife.

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DarthPallassCat Mar 25, 2026 -25

That’s supposed to make me feel better? Your standard is so low that Stephen Colbert and his son are credible enough for this IP? no wonder Hollywood has gone downhill so much

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THEdoomslayer94 Mar 25, 2026 +15

He’s a hell of a lot more credible in being he’s a massive fan of the books as opposed to Amazon crapping out rings of power

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idiot9991 Mar 25, 2026 +5

Hey it can only be better than that rings of power c***.

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NickCostanza Mar 25, 2026 +28

At least we know the lore will be accurate.

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benthejammin Mar 25, 2026 +46

don't though. Though if anyone could do it, Colbert has the passion & LOTR knowledge to do it.

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Due-Blackberry8056 Mar 25, 2026 +7

Even if he could do it all his Late-Night money, please don't

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kinisonkhan Mar 25, 2026 +5

Awww come on, Seth MacFarlane's passion for Star Trek that make Orville better than Trek. So expect whatever Stephen Colbert cranks out to be better than Tolkien. /s

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benthejammin Mar 25, 2026 +2

it's one thing to make a terrible comedy based on Star Trek but he didn't remake Star Trek. so not the best comparison. plus I already said I would rather not see it done. there has not been anything good put on screen in the LOTR universe made since the original trilogy.

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Dry_Jellyfish641 Mar 25, 2026 -25

He had passion for late night too and the result wasn’t good. I love the Colbert Report though. I think LOTR is fine, and the Rings of Power is fun to watch

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ye_olde_green_eyes Mar 25, 2026 +7

His best period was on the Colbert Report for sure.

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HilaryVandermueller Mar 25, 2026 +4

I love the Colbert Report but Strangers With Candy is one of my all-time favorite shows.

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ye_olde_green_eyes Mar 25, 2026

I always think of that as Amy Sedaris' show, but yeah, absolute classic.

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Dry_Jellyfish641 Mar 25, 2026 +1

100%. He was so good and hilarious. I was hoping he was going to keep that going forward

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dakilazical_253 Mar 25, 2026 +5

His Late Night show is fantastic

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OtherUserCharges Mar 25, 2026 +1

I don’t know if that format is just too dated for me to enjoy, I did love Conan in the 90s, but I couldn’t get into Colbert at all. I loved the Colbert report and his work in the daily show. I think I just enjoy him far more as a character actor than I like him as himself.

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Dry_Jellyfish641 Mar 25, 2026 -15

That’s definitely an opinion, definitely an opinion. He isn’t Jimmy Fallon levels of bad, but when Kimmel is the better host you wonder whatever happened to Conan

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Pandamanda- Mar 25, 2026 +7

Wild take.

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Ooglebird Mar 25, 2026 +17

I want to see Amy Sedaris as Galadriel eating chicken wings in a greasy bathrobe and her hair in curlers.

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Low-Musician2913 Mar 25, 2026 +10

This is a tough one. Colbert knows the books and movies more than anyone else, except maybe Peter. He's arguably the #1 superfan. However, I don't think he has experience in writing and producing movies, and I don't know if these six chapters are enough to make not only a movie, but a compelling movie. So I don't know.

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porkywood Mar 25, 2026 +1

And unless he decides to fund it all himself, everybody will want to have a say in the production and then we’ll see some ham-fisted attempt at script-writing by focus group. Or maybe South Park will have another Kathleen Kennedy style episode.

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MarioMan1213245765 Mar 25, 2026 +21

Oh god they're trying to turn it into Star Wars

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cold_kingsly Mar 25, 2026 +4

Dude it’s been like Star Wars for over a decade now since they decided to do their own version of the prequels. Not to mention the other spin offs, video games, and a boat load of merchandise.

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Doggleganger Mar 25, 2026 +4

The difference is that there is a whole ton of material that Tolkein wrote. That material could be adapted into new movies or show. However, the Tolkein estate has been hesitant to grant those rights because they did not like the LOTR movies. Ironically, that is leading to lower quality adaptations than if they just let people use the actual source material (SIlmarillion, books of lost tales, etc.).

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DaJelly Mar 25, 2026 +8

star wars had like 30 years of material written before disney took over the ip. most of it very good. they could have easily adapted those stories but chose not to.

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gs181 Mar 25, 2026 +7

The only good stuff was by Timothy Zahn. Kevin Anderson wrote a ton of the star wars material, and that guy is all volume and no quality. He also wrote like 20 of the dune books after Herbert died. I appreciate the effort but god damn can we get a writer that goes for the right amount? Either we get George RR Martin that won't finish his shit, or we get a guy that finishes way too much stuff.

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ye_olde_green_eyes Mar 25, 2026 +5

That decision was criminal. There was plenty of trash in that canon but SO MANY great stories and characters that would have been SO MUCH better than most of Disney's Star Wars output.

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Strange_Specialist4 Mar 25, 2026 +2

Luke's academy a d training the next generation of Jedi would have been such a better launch point for the story

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bookon Mar 25, 2026 +1

And Peter Jackson didn't do that here. They are adapting Tolkien's work.

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Doggleganger Mar 25, 2026 +1

I read some of those books and comics. Honestly, they were bad.

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justsomehost Mar 25, 2026 +4

Kinda dont want more LOTR movies regardless of who writes them

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ApartmentDecent8747 Mar 25, 2026 +2

Getting his bag? Dude is richer than most of the population what the hell are you talking about.

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hashtaglurking Mar 25, 2026 +2

Plot twist activated!

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Brief-Night6314 Mar 25, 2026 +3

Will they add Tom Bombadil?

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Munchy2k Mar 25, 2026 +5

It’s being based on 6 early chapters (3 to 8) of Fellowship that were missing from the trilogy.

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Brief-Night6314 Mar 25, 2026 +1

Yeah and those parts had Tom Bombadil.

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fenderputty Mar 25, 2026 +3

This will make of break it (I will watch it regardless)

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veryvery907 Mar 25, 2026 +4

Unless this script nearly EXACTLY follows what happens to the Hobbits in FotR before meeting Aragorn in Bree, it will be an entirely wasted effort. Word for word would be best.

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TrustInRoy Mar 25, 2026 +2

Gonna be some really crazy story from the Silmarillion

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StrangeStrider Mar 25, 2026 +5

its literally about the 3 remaining hobbits "retracing their journey" and Sams daughter... its going to be dogshit lol.

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frostbird Mar 25, 2026

Read the damn article

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TrustInRoy Mar 25, 2026 +1

I did. You're responding to a guess I posted 15 hours ago.

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frostbird Mar 25, 2026 +1

The third paragraph of article literally says its going to be about cut content from fellowship of the ring. You did not read the article.

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TrustInRoy Mar 25, 2026 +1

I read it after I made my spur of the moment comment. It's not a big deal.

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SpiderFan241 Mar 25, 2026 +2

Really scraping the barrel for content. There are much bigger and better stories they could have told.

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BlerghTheBlergh Mar 25, 2026 +2

I still want to expand on Tolkiens draft for „The New Shadow“

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ProgrammerPrudent988 Mar 25, 2026 +1

Ummm, WB is about to owned by Paramount…won’t this be a problem?

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Deep-Patience1526 Mar 25, 2026 +1

Too much of a good thing…,

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bluehawk232 Mar 25, 2026 +1

Doing a feature film on three chapters from fellowship is crazy

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in1gom0ntoya Mar 25, 2026

this could be fantastic, Stephen is a real lotr fan and not some shill

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timesuck47 Mar 25, 2026

Good for him! Seriously. I think this will make Stephen very happy.

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oloughlin3 Mar 25, 2026 +1

At Warner Bros? Didn’t the Ellisons just fire him?

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BillianForsee94 Mar 25, 2026 -1

Stephen, we’re literally begging you to not make this some sort of Trump allegory or to put some modern spin on it. I love you but this is LOTR - this is serious. Do not f*** it up.

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Leather_Egg2096 Mar 25, 2026

Always hush money payments

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Wide-Pop6050 Mar 25, 2026

Wait who is his son? Like what has he done so far? How come he has a different last name?

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q-_-pq-_-p Mar 25, 2026

This will never see the light of day. Has all the hallmarks of the B&W Star Wars trilogy

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Harddisksson69 Mar 25, 2026 -1

So Trump is gonna be a character in the movie?

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mvallas1073 Mar 25, 2026 +3

You have no idea who Steven Colbert is in regards to LotR, do you?

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MagnetoWasRight24 Mar 25, 2026 +4

The man who Peter Jackson described as knowing Lord of the Rings better than anyone he's ever met, including the on-set experts they had for the original trilogy? You don't understand why that guy is getting a shot?

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itafunnystory Mar 25, 2026 -2

He's a big LOTR head. I never got into it myself.

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percypersimmon Mar 25, 2026 +1

You’ll all be SHOCKED to discover that this commenter is frequent in Tarkov communities and r/PoliticalCompassMemes

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