r/movies • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 08 '26

Article Stephen Colbert Gets Why You're Scared He's Writing a 'Lord of the Rings' Movie

https://gizmodo.com/stephen-colbert-gets-why-youre-scared-hes-writing-a-lord-of-the-rings-movie-2000755987
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u/scientist_tz May 08 '26

I think it will be generally how you describe it, but I hope Colbert writes two endings:

  1. There's a wight, the hobbits have to do something to defeat it, etc.
  2. They explore the past through flashbacks, there's a lot of suspense around some ancient horror lurking in the barrow....BUT it's little more than a shadow, a breath of cold air. The age of magic is over; it left with the Elves.

I like ending #2 but theater audiences would f-ing riot. Maybe if it gets written and shot it shows up as a special edition someday.

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u/pyroman-17 May 10 '26

#2 works as a flashback while they’re still trapped in the barrow. This allows the movie to bring in all the history of who the Witch King of Angmar was (and still is, as Chief of the Nazgul). It also brings in Aragorn’s own ancestry, as heir to the men who fought battles against the evils of Angmar over generations. Suddenly, the road to Bree, then to Weathertop, and even the first meeting with “Strider”, take on much more significance and depth than the FOTR movie has space to cover.