Am I the only one who thinks that this announcement dropped a week early?
but March 25 is Tolkien Reading Day whereas April first… oh I see.
Like The War of the Rohirrim?
Yep, though I haven’t seen it yet, it got mixed reviews IIRC
I’m really anxious about Tom Bombadil. It’s hard to write a god who is also silly. But he’s both of those. And unknown. And unknowable. They could do so much worse than dwarf-tossing.
I think you all, Colbert and even Sir Peter Jackson are all missing the big opportunity. Bilbo skedaddled from the Shire not because of some Ring thing, but to be rid of his grasping relatives. A Succession / Dallas / Dynasty-style miniseries exploring the interconnections and bad blood between the hobbits of Bilbo’s generation, and their fast-living children (Merry, Pippin, Frodo and working class bit-of-rough badboy Samwise) would be prime-time TV gold. Its probably all there in the book if you just skip over the words that aren’t relevant.
I know (I hope) you are joking but 
Completely joking until someone runs with the idea and it looks like making money, at which point I will unleash lawyers who make the Nazgul look like hobbit children who’ve eaten too much cake.
I did like that Lobelia Sackville-Baggins was redeemed in the scouring of the shire.
So do they recast Frodo & company, or just de-age Elijah and the other actors? Or hell, just do the whole thing with AI?
My understanding is that it’s going to be a one-man show, with Stephen Colbert playing every character. Malkovich Malkovich.
That’ll work well for the scene where the hobbits are running naked in the grass after Tom rescues them from the Barrow-wight.
In this house, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is a hero. End of story.
breaks out the Emergency Brain Bleach™
And don’t forget the bathhouse scene in the Tenderloin Crickhollow.
Finger puppets?
They are trying to save on wages, so Colbert is also going to direct, write the script, operate the camera and work as extra and stunt-man.
War of Rohirrim was surprisingly good, especially compared the 2nd & 3rd Hobbit movies and Rings of Power.
It was nothing compared to the first 3 live action movies though.
Eh, I’m still waiting for Colbert’s promised Chronicles of Amber TV series. Wake me up when that happens
I’ll try to get it then, thanks! 