Ramblings about entertainment and other things
Just a couple of quick things…
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse will be dropping some big hints about the future of LOST at Comic Con in Las Vegas next month.
Also, according to rumors, we’ll find out more about Libby and what the heck that four-toed statue is during Season 4.
Via Digital Spy.
Update: Tropichunt.com Guy correctly points out that, Comic Con is in San Diego, not Las Vegas. Thanks!
You won’t have to wait around for LOST to start up again next year, because they’re working on a series of “mobisodes” (mobile episodes) that will start up in Fall 2007.
While “Lost” viewers will have to wait till next year to see the next TV episodes, Cuse and Lindelof said in the fall there will be a series of “Lost” mobisodes featuring the entire cast and rolling out first on Verizon Wireless and then probably appearing on ABC.com. They said they’re keenly aware of the eight-month gap between last month’s finale and the return of “Lost” at the beginning of next year
Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof will host a session called “Living the Lost Life” on June 13 at the Promax/BDA conference in New York.
Promax International is the “association for promotion and marketing executives in the electronic media”.
BDA is the Brodcast Designers’ Association, “the organization for professionals who work in motion graphics”.
Tonight’s “Lost” episode, “Greatest Hits” will be aired tonight as usual. We’ll also be getting “Lost: The Answers” tomorrow night, at 10:15 Eastern. Tomorrow night’s show will be a recap show, and will be hosted by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.
Entertainment Weekly has a brief interview with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof about the decision to end LOST after three more season.
They also talk about the rest of this season, and even specifically say we’re going to start getting some answers.
“And more importantly, we meet Jacob — the elusive, unseen, presumed
leader of the Others — for the first time. And this is a character who
is every bit as significant to our universe as the Emperor was to the Star Wars universe — a character that you didn’t get to meet until Return of the Jedi
but was referred to all through the preceding films. Jacob is a guy who
is going to have a very significant, ongoing sort of story value in our
show.”
Variety is reporting that LOST will run for three more years, but instead of the usual 22 to 24 episodes per season, there will be only 48 more episodes after this season ends.
That means 16 episode seasons instead, and they’ll run without repeats (get your DVRs ready).
The good news is that Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the masterminds behind LOST have signed on until the end of the series, so we’ll see how the show was intended to end.
Lindelof promised: “There will be no extensions or enhancements. That number (48) is absolute,” he said. And “once you begin to see where we’re going, I think the idea of sequels and spinoffs will completely go away.”
Thanks to TropicHunt.com Guy!
One of our regular visitors, TropicHunt.com Guy, was kind enough to point me to a story earlier today that says that LOST is going to end in 2009, it’s going to be off for another seven months, and that it will be moving to an earlier timeslot.
Long time listeners of the LOST Podcast will know that Lindelof and Cuse, the two head writers of the show have hinted at this for some time now.
Is that the end of the news…. well, not quite. I just found out that the exact number of seasons might not be set into stone just yet.
It might not be exactly two seasons! Whether this means less or more that two, I’m not sure, but we’ll keep an eye on this, because they’ll be making an official announcement in the next couple of days!
Via Watch with Kirstin.
Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly is reporting that next week’s episode of Lost, “The Man Behind the Curtain”, is going to be about Ben and The Dharma Initiative. It’s about time.
The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on where LOST is headed in the next few years.
The stars of the show are just as interested as everyone else to see where things are headed, and
the producers have stated that there are a few more years left until the island mystery is solved, and then that will be it for the show.
They’re not going to try and drag it out forever, which is a good thing.
What a nightmare.
It seems that the security folks at Honolulu International Airport don’t pay attention to warning labels and accidentally X-rayed the film canisters containing footage for one of the episodes of LOST.
They were able to re-shoot the ruined scenes, and everything is back on schedule. Insurance covers it too, which is a good thing since LOST costs between $1.5 million and $2 million (or more) PER EPISODE to shoot.