then, i sit down with j.j. abrams who is directing the new "star war "movies let's hope j.jvmentd doesn't stand for jar-jar. wait a minute a second, neil patrick harris is a mutant? this is the "colbert report. captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: report to the report. thank you so much. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for joining us. i got a-- ( cheers and applause ) folks. thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. thank you, folks. thank you for your support. thank you for joining us on this, the last day of america, because, folks, it is all over. i am-- i am packing up and getting out of this country and moving back to south carolina. ( cheers and applause ) and here's why-- >> breaking news, senate democrats vote to approve the so-called nuclear options. >> before the democrats voted to change the rules, the nuclear option through that up, totally changed the rules. >> they changed filibuster rules to end the 60 vote th

my guest tonight is hollywood's hottest director please welcome j.j. abrams( cheers and applause ) good to see you again, man, how are you? >> very well. >> stephen: it's been a long time. the squirrel's in the basket, man. everybody knows who you are, you're the emmy award-winning megadirector, of "lost" "alias" and now you're doing the "star wars" movie we're not going to talk about that right now, all right? i know you're drying dooig to tell me what happens in the new "star wars" movie but i'm sorry, i can't do it. not yet, not yet. now you've got a project that really shook me, j.j. >> oh, really, how so? >> stephen: because it's a book. okay. >> yup. >> not only is it a book. it's a book that is i think would be impossible to turn into a movie. >> yeah, the goal of this was not to make a movie. it was to create the book. this is the end game, what you're holding in your hand. that'>> stephen: that's the pai don't understand. this book is not just any book. it's a book within a week. it's a novel that you conceived of with a writer named doug doris. >> d

thousand nine hundred seventy three michael crighton film with star yule brenner well i just read the j.j. abrams is trying to mount it as a series of to do it and i suggested i play that you'll burn a rule. and i don't know if i'm nasty or weird enough to play that you run a role but i would do it i would do it. and the thing i would worry about is as we worry about with all the series is once you do the first show is the next show going to be just a repeat of the first one that's what worries me about sirius and what i have i love movies you get a plane ticket you're going somewhere you've never been before you're working with people you never saw but you don't know how it's going to work out and it does with one quick. if you only knew question remember the first girl you have a case. i think she was four years old and we were riding bicycles down our my little street in beloit and in westwood village and yeah i think we sort of the little experiment with a name i can remember thanks james you know best james wrote i love them christmas with tom going to love a twenty fifth on the hallmark mov

j.j. abramsshes that he -- it was a big secret that you would play kahn -- >> a huge secret. i just bury it all the time. and it was just a bit vague about it and talking about john harrison. and yeah, maybe we shouldn't have done that. and i think, oh, my god. months of our lives of white lies. i'm going straight to hell for that. maybe you shouldn't have done that. >> so you keep this totally quiet. >> i'm teasing him. he is a master story teller. and i really appreciate the idea that people go into the cinema and have that kind of, again, that kind of fun with the "happy days" moment, going, what? and i saw the first screening like the premier here in the states. and the thrill, when i said, you know, kahn and it hear that action in a live audience was terrific. made all of the lying worthwhile. >> jimmy: have you met henry winkler, by the way, who plays the fonz? >> i have never met him. >> jimmy: i'm going to hire him to walk into your house in the middle of the day and see what happens. >>