The (purported - I'm still not convinced this is serious) source is
Three is Company through to
Fog on the Barrow Downs, which is indeed basically skipped over by the Jackson movies - there's one Ringwraith encounter which is
broadly from the books, but the rest is turned into the cornfield encounter and a mad dash to the ferry. So the concept is the three hobbits retracing a journey that, um... definitely didn't happen in the films, but
what if we pretend it did, but off screen?
The main reason I might be interested in watching this is if Billy, Dom, and Sean reprise their roles. Billy and Dom recently did an Amazon series together (travelling the world sampling the food), and are clearly still funny, close, and willing to be associated with LotR-ish stuff (there were...
many hobbit jokes). I would also enjoy seeing Elanor and Rosie.
I also think it's
absolutely freakin hilarious that this would mean a film where the grand denouement, the big event that the whole film is building towards... is Tom-a-Dong-a-Dillo Bombadil. I want them to overcommit to this. I want a whole advertising campaign about "At last... the character you've been waiting for since 2001". I want moody posters with the silhouette of his hat and taglines like "Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow" in jagged fonts. I want the first trailer to have a minor-key remix of one of his songs as the soundtrack, and the
last trailer to just be a three minute scene of him dancing merrily up the Withywindle,
and the scene isn't even in the film.
hS