LOST’s Damon Lindelof Makes 7-Figure Disney Deal To Write Secret Sci-Fi Feature
Cast and Crew of Lost, Post-LOST View CommentsVia Deadline:
Tags: 1952, Damon Lindelof, Post-LOSTEXCLUSIVE: In its latest attempt to hatch a large-scale film that can play to a family audience, Disney has made a seven-figure deal with screenwriter and Lost exec producer Damon Lindelof to write and produce an original large-scale science fiction feature film. Other than the fact that the project has a working title of 1952, I couldn’t pry plot details out of anybody. I’m not sure if the title connotes a period the film is set in, or if it is a Lost reference. I’ve also heard that this project isn’t just being conceived for movies only, but that it has multiple platform aspirations.
The project came out of a series of meetings that Lindelof had with Disney’s production president Sean Bailey and senior exec Brigham Taylor, and it’s the first film that Lindelof is producing from the ground up. Since ending the run of Lost and serving as one of the show’s architects all the way through, Lindelof has been on fire as a screenwriter. He teamed with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to script the Jon Favreau-directed Cowboys & Aliens. Lindelof came aboard to rewrite Ridley Scott’s 3D Alien prequel and injected enough new ideas into the Prometheus script that for Fox and Scott to deemhe film an original. Lindelof is right now working with Kurtzman and Orci to pull together a Star Trek sequel that can be ready to begin production later this year or early next. I’ve reported my skepticism that Abrams would ever be able to move from launching Super 8 and jump into a Star Trek sequel that will make its summer 2012 release date, because the scribes need Abrams to give a thumbs up to the 70-page story outline they’ve written, and turn that into a script. Lindelof will be engaged in that for awhile, and he will start the Disney project after that. Lindelof’s deal was made by CAA.
Damon Lindelof, LOST showrunner and friend of ‘House’ Exec Producer Greg Yaitanes, made a cameo appearance on last night’s new episode of House:
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Tags: Damon Lindelof, Videos‘Game of Thrones’ Author Criticizes LOST’s Ending, Damon Lindelof Responds
Cast and Crew of Lost View Comments‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin criticized LOST’s ending in a recent interview for the New Yorker:
Martin knows what it’s like to be provoked by a serial entertainment. He experienced it himself as a faithful viewer of “Lost,” the ABC adventure series about a group of castaways trapped on a mysterious island. “I kept watching it and I was fascinated,” he recalls. “They’d introduce these things and I thought that I knew where it was going. Then they’d introduce and I’d rethink it.” Like many “Lost” fans, Martin resented the series’s mystical ending, which left dozens of narrative threads dangling. “We watched it every week trying to figure it out, and as it got deeper and deeper I kept saying, ‘They better have something good in mind for the end. This end better pay off here.’ And then I felt so cheated when we got to the conclusion.”
Martin says he’s terrified that he’ll “fuck it up” at the end of the ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ saga and “do a Lost.” Last night, Damon Lindelof reacted to this on :
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Stunning trailer for the new videogame ‘Dead Island’ mashed up with Giacchino’s LOST score. Watch the original trailer here.
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Tags: Damon Lindelof, Michael Giacchino, Soundtrack, VideosDamon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse Reflect on Life After LOST
Cast and Crew of Lost, Post-LOST View CommentsVia TV Guide:
In the Dharma dumps this week, Lost fans? Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse feel your pain.
This would have been the week that Lost returned to the airwaves after its typical eight-month hiatus. But now that midseason is upon us, and there’s no sign of Jack, Sawyer, Locke or Hurley on the horizon, reality has finally set in: The show’s not coming back, Kate! It’s not coming back!
As the usual Lost return date approaches, Lindelof tells TV Guide Magazine that he’s been hearing more from wistful fans coming to terms with their island fever.
“Yes, there has been some wist,” he says. “Which is appreciated more than I can articulate. As for coping, everyone has their own mechanisms.”
Lindelof is busy with his active feature career (including the next Star Trek sequel), but says he’s been able to fill some of his idle time “watching every great show I missed as a result of making Lost for six years. I’d advise starting with Battlestar Galactica, moving on to Breaking Bad and ending with The Wire. I’m convinced the best way to watch a series is to just binge.”
The writer, who co-created Lost with J.J. Abrams, says he also still regularly hears from viewers debating over the show’s merits. “Even the people who absolutely hated how we ended it still have the need to tell me this in a variety of creative ways eight months after the fact,” he says. “I used to lose sleep over this, but I’m actually starting to embrace the fact that while their assessment of my talent (or lack thereof) sometimes hurts, it’s nice to know that at least they cared enough about the show to reach out and tell me so. Repeatedly. OK, I’m still losing a little sleep over it.”
Lindelof calls it “part of the grieving process.”
Lindelof and Cuse, of course, famously negotiated an end date for Lost, allowing the producers to end the show last May, after six seasons, on their own terms. But there’s a part of them that remains nostalgic for the show, which turned the executive producing duo into stars as well.
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