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Stephen Colbert Developing New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-movie-stephen-colbert-warner-bros-1236698684/
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@TheBreadmonkey Why, he laments. The existing films are fine. Why.
@TheBreadmonkey Hey if Ben Stiller and Adam Scott can be involved in something like Severance, then Stephen Colbert can do this
@TheBreadmonkey I think I could trust him. He has his reputation as the biggest Tolkien nerd to hold up.
@TheBreadmonkey @Guillotine_Jones There are Tolkein nerds and then there are fans who swoop in after 25 years to make a movie that is ONLY Tom Bombadil. Incredible
@beandreams @TheBreadmonkey @Guillotine_Jones my daughter’s middle name was named after Bombadil’s girlfriend.
@TheBreadmonkey I know he's a big fan and has a lot of time on his hands now. And he's free to do whatever. But yeah, why indeed.
@TheBreadmonkey I assume that this is an April Fool that escaped on the wrong day because of the Americans' idiotic date format.
@TheBreadmonkey Seriously, though, he's like a Tolkien scholar.
@TheBreadmonkey We’ve been crying out for the Farmer Maggot and Tom Bombadil buddy cop movie.
@TheBreadmonkey He's a Tolkien fan, I actually kind of trust him. The other thing is that after the execs ruined The Hobbit and the shitshow that is Rings of Power I do not trust any new Tolkien adaptations.
@Gargron @TheBreadmonkey yeah as far as I’m concerned it’s the same tier as Henry Cavill doing the warhammer show. He’s a giant fan who knows the material but Hollywood is still Hollywood
@TheBreadmonkey he's like the hugest LoTR nerd. Like, can quote the Similarillion nerd.
@tezoatlipoca @TheBreadmonkey Paramount seems to have disappeared it from YouTube but the one with James Franco is a classic
Franco: name three -- just three! -- of the Valar
Colbert: [rattles off full names of all 14 Valar]
Colbert: You come into MY HOUSE...!
@TheBreadmonkey @aburka so, like I get the concern about random celebrities doing pet project rehashes of cherished properties, but w.r.t. anything Tolkein, I could think of worse people to be handling it than Colbert.
Also Colbert knows what he's good at (being a news/satire/talk show host) and what he's not, he'll executive produce it, but he'd leave the rest to experts.
They are hilarious!
@TheBreadmonkey @tezoatlipoca and he has a cameo appearance in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
What's next? Conan OBrien doing the next Tron? Ellen Degeneres to reprise Stargate? Oprah doing a sequel to Battlestar Galactica? This is madness.
@TheBreadmonkey Honestly, I'd watch that Tron movie!
@TheBreadmonkey Oooh! The concept art's out already?!
@TheBreadmonkey Claudia Winkleman has been approached to create a reboot of Sapphire and Steel
Ya know... I'll take Conan if it gets rid of that godawful Ares. I wanted the Sam and Cora show. We can due Conan in there somewhere.
He could just be a face superimposed on an identity disc making smartass comments. A disc that gets dropped into the data sea during a combat scene and never seen again.
@TheBreadmonkey I love this. More nerds should develop films! That must be the job of a lifetime for him, nice one.
@TheBreadmonkey Colbert is known to be a geek not only about LOTR, but he is knowledgeable of the whole Tolkien Lengendarium. He is legit.
Jonathan Ross webooting Wind in the Willows.
@TheBreadmonkey About how I felt when I first heard the fella behind Braindead, Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles was doing it.
Colbert's a massive Tolkien nerd, though.
@TheBreadmonkey This might please @sennoma as Cobert is a well-known Tolkien super-nerd.
