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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1440/
- Published: 2026-03-26T17:30:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-26T17:30:29.000Z
- Description: Colbert joined LOTR director Peter Jackson to reveal the news in a video announcement.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Stephen Colbert already has a new job lined up for when [he ends his 11-year run as host of The Late Show](https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/tv/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-to-end-in-2026?ref=goodoil.news) in May – the comedian and well-known J R R Tolkien superfan announced he will co-write and develop a new film in the blockbuster Lord of the Rings franchise.  
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> Colbert joined LOTR director Peter Jackson to reveal the news in a video announcement.  
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> “I’m pretty happy about it … you know what the books mean to me and what your films mean to me,” the late-night host told Jackson, who led the Oscar-winning team behind the nearly US$6 billion original Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.  
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> RNZ

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