Colbert Drops New Details on Big Project After Emmy Win

Mike Blake / REUTERS/Mike Blake Stephen Colbert has dropped new hints about his next project after the fateful end of his CBS late-night show.

After taking home the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series on Monday night, the TV veteran answered a room full of reporters who were eager to ask what he is spending his time on.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired in May, and Colbert has since maintained a low profile, only intermittently popping up throughout the summer.

But he said his latest project is taking up a significant portion of his schedule, revealing just how much this is the case.

“That takes a lot of time, man.

You ever written a Lord of the Rings movie?” he said to reporters, as seen in a clip from Vanity Fair .

“It’s a full-time job.” Colbert, sporting a beard and a big smile, said he’d just returned from New Zealand, where he is presumably working on the next installment of The Lord of the Rings .

“Literally, I woke up in New Zealand yesterday.

I flew here for the Emmys,” he said, joking that when he was in New Zealand, it “was tomorrow there.” “I went from yesterday to tomorrow, so I don’t know how many days today has been.

What did I say in my speech? I was hallucinating up there,” the 62-year-old quipped.

The former late-night host previously teased that he was in New Zealand in a rare video to promote his late-night colleague for the Emmys.

Colbert said he was “at the end of the world,” filming a clip while perched on top of a cliff above the water.

Two months before the much-criticized cancellation of The Late Show , Colbert announced that he will be writing a coming installment in the LOTR series.

Colbert will be developing the Warner Bros.