Showing posts with label LOST Series Finale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LOST Series Finale. Show all posts
Monday, November 22, 2010
LANA'I Look-Out = Final Battle and other scenes
This is where a number of Lost scenes were filmed, right here is where the scene where Sawyer and the Man in Black/Locke climbed down into Jacob's cave.
LANA'I Look-Out = Final Battle and other scenes
I so wanted to jump the fence and climb around the rocky area to explore, but there were signs all over saying not to, plus my Wife would never have let me.
Its also where the final battle between Jack & MIB/Locke toke place. Along with where Desmond killed Kelvin Inman and where the survivors crossed a rocky area to get dynamite in the season one finale.
Its also where the final battle between Jack & MIB/Locke toke place. Along with where Desmond killed Kelvin Inman and where the survivors crossed a rocky area to get dynamite in the season one finale.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
‘Shield’ Creator: ‘Lost’ Bosses Should Be ‘Very Happy’ With Finale
by Matt Webb Mitovich
May 26th, 2010 2:29 PM
Shawn Ryan, whose ‘The Shield‘ has often been held up this week as a gold standard for series finales, tells Fancast that ‘Lost’s showrunners “should be very, very happy” with the way they wrapped up their show.
“I have a feeling that Carlton [Cuse] and Damon [Lindelof] were ultimately pleased with what they did,” Ryan says. “And that’s the important thing.”
Sunday’s two-and-a-half hour ‘Lost’ finale rankled some fans by revealing that the “sideways” reality that shared the stage this season was a pre-afterlife “holding area” and not an existence that actually happened.
Also, numerous mythological questions were left unresolved. As such, some viewers felt cheated – if not pretty darn confused.
“You really and truly cannot please everyone,” Ryan notes. “A lot of critics really liked the ‘Shield’ finale, but I also read plenty of people online who wanted something different, or something more.”
We’d hate to spoil ‘The Shield’ for anyone who might dive into that complete series DVD set, but in a nutshell its finale delivered heaps of comeuppance to those who deserved it. Some fans, though, took issue with the fate assigned Michael Chiklis’ Vic Mackey.
Ryan makes this observation: “As finales go, time changes perspective, so just because [the way 'Lost' ended] might be polarizing now, it doesn’t mean that a year from now the majority might fall to one side or the other.”
Ryan also stresses perspective when considering the source of critiques. Those born of fan blogs versus professional critics “tend to offer extreme points of view that do a lot of shouting and don’t necessarily represent the vast majority,” he points out. “Hopefully [Cuse and Lindelof] aren’t spending all of their days reading them, good or bad.”
Ryan also shares his opinion on series finales for the ‘Lost’ Season 6 DVD set coming out August 24.
As for ‘The Shield’ returning to the spotlight this week in the wake of ‘Lost,’ ‘24′ and ‘Law & Order’ signing off, Ryan – who executive-produced Season 2 of Fox’s ‘Lie To Me,’ returning June 7 – says, “That show is very near and dear to me, so anything that brings it back into the public consciousness is great.”
Shawn Ryan has a new drama premiering on Fox during the 2010-11 TV season, the Chicago-based cop drama ‘Ride-Along.’
http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/tv-news/the-shield-creator-lost-bosses-should-be-very-happy-with-finale/
May 26th, 2010 2:29 PM
Shawn Ryan, whose ‘The Shield‘ has often been held up this week as a gold standard for series finales, tells Fancast that ‘Lost’s showrunners “should be very, very happy” with the way they wrapped up their show.
“I have a feeling that Carlton [Cuse] and Damon [Lindelof] were ultimately pleased with what they did,” Ryan says. “And that’s the important thing.”
Sunday’s two-and-a-half hour ‘Lost’ finale rankled some fans by revealing that the “sideways” reality that shared the stage this season was a pre-afterlife “holding area” and not an existence that actually happened.
Also, numerous mythological questions were left unresolved. As such, some viewers felt cheated – if not pretty darn confused.
“You really and truly cannot please everyone,” Ryan notes. “A lot of critics really liked the ‘Shield’ finale, but I also read plenty of people online who wanted something different, or something more.”
We’d hate to spoil ‘The Shield’ for anyone who might dive into that complete series DVD set, but in a nutshell its finale delivered heaps of comeuppance to those who deserved it. Some fans, though, took issue with the fate assigned Michael Chiklis’ Vic Mackey.
Ryan makes this observation: “As finales go, time changes perspective, so just because [the way 'Lost' ended] might be polarizing now, it doesn’t mean that a year from now the majority might fall to one side or the other.”
Ryan also stresses perspective when considering the source of critiques. Those born of fan blogs versus professional critics “tend to offer extreme points of view that do a lot of shouting and don’t necessarily represent the vast majority,” he points out. “Hopefully [Cuse and Lindelof] aren’t spending all of their days reading them, good or bad.”
Ryan also shares his opinion on series finales for the ‘Lost’ Season 6 DVD set coming out August 24.
As for ‘The Shield’ returning to the spotlight this week in the wake of ‘Lost,’ ‘24′ and ‘Law & Order’ signing off, Ryan – who executive-produced Season 2 of Fox’s ‘Lie To Me,’ returning June 7 – says, “That show is very near and dear to me, so anything that brings it back into the public consciousness is great.”
Shawn Ryan has a new drama premiering on Fox during the 2010-11 TV season, the Chicago-based cop drama ‘Ride-Along.’
http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/tv-news/the-shield-creator-lost-bosses-should-be-very-happy-with-finale/
Friday, May 21, 2010
'Lost' Thursdays: They're gonna put Darlton in the movies
May 20, 2010 11:38 pm
You think you're going to miss "Lost"? Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse think you've got nothing on them.
When speaking about the show's impending finale, Lindelof said that he and Cuse were not acknowledging the show was about to end, that they were "Elizabeth Kubler-Rossing it."
"Once we're out of denial, we'll move on to anger, and you don't wanna be around for that," Lindelof said with a laugh.
The two spoke at an event hosted at the Times Center in New York City and broadcast at hundreds of movie theaters in the United States and Canada. The two responded to questions about the show's evolution and its history directed at them by New York Times entertainment editor Lorne Manley, as well as questions asked by fans attending at theaters around the country and in the audience at the event itself. The mood was largely festive, and the two producers (who have been the primary show runners on "Lost" since early in its first season, when co-creator J.J. Abrams left to direct "Mission: Impossible III") were largely forthcoming about the show and their creative process. Yet they still had to sidestep potential spoilers for the finale, perhaps owing to just how many heated fan queries still exist around the famously mysterious series.
The two have been planning the events of the final episode of the show for so long during the series' run that pulling all of the pieces together has been less a work of television construction for the two and more putting in place things they've been wanting to do for a long time.
"It's a lot like someone who's alive planning their own funeral," Lindelof said. He added that the two approached writing the finale by asking themselves "If we were fans of the show ... what are the scenes we'd want to see?"
Lindelof said that the question he gets asked most often now by fans is whether or not the finale is going to disappoint them. While he understands the frustrations and concerns felt by the show's vocal fan base, he also likens the process of watching the show to going on a series of dates with someone and wondering if they're going to disappoint you the whole time, rather than just letting go and falling in love.
"All we could do was make the version that we were happy with, that satisfied us," Cuse said.
The producers, who spend much of their time in other interviews dealing with questions of why this or that story choice was made during the course of the series, seemed to appreciate getting to pull back to take a longer view of the show that's so dominated their lives. Lindelof said that what has made some of the show's weirder mysteries work over the years is the fact that the series is usually able to flip a question that begins with "what" into a question that begins with "who." He gave as an example the fact that the show turned the question of "What's the Smoke Monster?" on its head and revealed that fans should have been asking, all along, "Who's the Smoke Monster?" in the early portions of this season.
It's this idea that the most absurd notions can be put across with good character byplay that has kept the show in good stead with its fans, for the most part, the two said. For example, Season Four's beloved episode "The Constant" can be boiled down to a story of a guy trying to get in touch with the woman he left on the mainland and hasn't spoken to for three years. The notion of someone's consciousness becoming loose in time and floating throughout the course of his own life is absurd on its face, but by rooting it in the characters, the show is able to get away with it. Lindelof said a similar thing happened with the button that had to be pushed every 108 minutes in Season Two, lest the world end.
"The only way we could get the audience to buy into it was if Locke could convince Jack to push it," he said, after the scene where Locke does just that (from episode "Orientation") was screened.
The question the two have been asked more than any other just might be whether they knew the answers to all of the questions on the show from the beginning. They insist that they knew roughly what the end of the show was from the very beginning, but Cuse allowed that major portions of the show's mythology were laid into place between seasons one and two, when they finally had time to deal with the fact that the series was a major hit and would likely run for several years. There would be an even stricter design for where things were going at the start of each season, laid in place by the writers at a retreat before each season began, but there was still room to improvise, particularly when writing toward evolving character relationships.
"The show is its own organic entity, and it tells you what it wants to be," Cuse said.
The two also allowed that occasional fan questions would work their way into the show -- for instance, rampant fan speculation on why Hurley wasn't losing weight led to a Season Two scene where he revealed a secret stash of DHARMA food -- but they, for the most part, are following their own course, even if it occasionally leads down disastrous trails, as with the much-maligned Nikki and Paolo episodes from Season Three. The characters were introduced because the show had no end date and needed to keep coming up with new characters to tell stories about, Cuse said, but it became quickly obvious that the introduction was a mistake.
"We are fallible. We make mistakes. The question is, when we make mistakes, how obvious are they?" Lindelof said, saying that most mistakes were caught so early the audience didn't really notice them even beginning to develop.
The flash-sideways scenes of the final season grew out of a desire to return to the sense the show had in Season One that all of its characters could have mysterious pasts and be revealed to be just about anything, Cuse said. It was both a way to examine how far the characters have come since the show began and a way to place them in new contexts and see what happened.
"Isn't Sawyer the same guy?" Lindelof said of the sideways universe. "He's a cop here; he's a con man there. But isn't he the same guy?"
Late in the program, the two were joined by actors Michael Emerson, who plays the enigmatic Ben Linus, and Jorge Garcia, who plays the gregarious Hurley. Emerson and Garcia arrived too late to offer up any real answers, though Garcia allowed his favorite non-Hurley character was Ben (who "gets to say some of the darnedest things," prompting Emerson, Cuse and Lindelof to reimagine a "Ben Says the Darnedest Things" spinoff) and Emerson said he always liked Mr. Eko to the same question. Cuse and Lindelof also asked Garcia if he, as a big fan of the show in addition to an actor on it, thought the finale answered the questions he had about the series. "As a fan," Garcia said, "I think I got it," with only a little hesitation.
Cuse and Lindelof allowed that they can't answer everything to everyone's satisfaction, but they also thought some things have been made too much of. As an example, they responded to a fan's query about the psychic who insisted both that Claire's unborn child would be special and that she had to get on a plane to Los Angeles with the fact that an episode in Season Two had revealed that character -- the only one who ever said Aaron was special -- as a hoax. But that seems to rarely satisfy those who watch the show.
"We'll give these explanations, and people will be, like, 'Nope. Why is he special?'" Lindelof said.
But it would be all but impossible to get out of a "Lost" event without a few spoilers. While Lindelof, Cuse, Emerson and Garcia only let a few slip, they also showed a scene from the finale, which hinted at some fairly interesting ideas. Suffice it to say, if you want to go into Sunday's finale completely unspoiled, don't read the next paragraph.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/05/lost-thursdays-theyre-gonna-put-darlton-in-the-movies.html
You think you're going to miss "Lost"? Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse think you've got nothing on them.
When speaking about the show's impending finale, Lindelof said that he and Cuse were not acknowledging the show was about to end, that they were "Elizabeth Kubler-Rossing it."
"Once we're out of denial, we'll move on to anger, and you don't wanna be around for that," Lindelof said with a laugh.
The two spoke at an event hosted at the Times Center in New York City and broadcast at hundreds of movie theaters in the United States and Canada. The two responded to questions about the show's evolution and its history directed at them by New York Times entertainment editor Lorne Manley, as well as questions asked by fans attending at theaters around the country and in the audience at the event itself. The mood was largely festive, and the two producers (who have been the primary show runners on "Lost" since early in its first season, when co-creator J.J. Abrams left to direct "Mission: Impossible III") were largely forthcoming about the show and their creative process. Yet they still had to sidestep potential spoilers for the finale, perhaps owing to just how many heated fan queries still exist around the famously mysterious series.
The two have been planning the events of the final episode of the show for so long during the series' run that pulling all of the pieces together has been less a work of television construction for the two and more putting in place things they've been wanting to do for a long time.
"It's a lot like someone who's alive planning their own funeral," Lindelof said. He added that the two approached writing the finale by asking themselves "If we were fans of the show ... what are the scenes we'd want to see?"
Lindelof said that the question he gets asked most often now by fans is whether or not the finale is going to disappoint them. While he understands the frustrations and concerns felt by the show's vocal fan base, he also likens the process of watching the show to going on a series of dates with someone and wondering if they're going to disappoint you the whole time, rather than just letting go and falling in love.
"All we could do was make the version that we were happy with, that satisfied us," Cuse said.
The producers, who spend much of their time in other interviews dealing with questions of why this or that story choice was made during the course of the series, seemed to appreciate getting to pull back to take a longer view of the show that's so dominated their lives. Lindelof said that what has made some of the show's weirder mysteries work over the years is the fact that the series is usually able to flip a question that begins with "what" into a question that begins with "who." He gave as an example the fact that the show turned the question of "What's the Smoke Monster?" on its head and revealed that fans should have been asking, all along, "Who's the Smoke Monster?" in the early portions of this season.
It's this idea that the most absurd notions can be put across with good character byplay that has kept the show in good stead with its fans, for the most part, the two said. For example, Season Four's beloved episode "The Constant" can be boiled down to a story of a guy trying to get in touch with the woman he left on the mainland and hasn't spoken to for three years. The notion of someone's consciousness becoming loose in time and floating throughout the course of his own life is absurd on its face, but by rooting it in the characters, the show is able to get away with it. Lindelof said a similar thing happened with the button that had to be pushed every 108 minutes in Season Two, lest the world end.
"The only way we could get the audience to buy into it was if Locke could convince Jack to push it," he said, after the scene where Locke does just that (from episode "Orientation") was screened.
The question the two have been asked more than any other just might be whether they knew the answers to all of the questions on the show from the beginning. They insist that they knew roughly what the end of the show was from the very beginning, but Cuse allowed that major portions of the show's mythology were laid into place between seasons one and two, when they finally had time to deal with the fact that the series was a major hit and would likely run for several years. There would be an even stricter design for where things were going at the start of each season, laid in place by the writers at a retreat before each season began, but there was still room to improvise, particularly when writing toward evolving character relationships.
"The show is its own organic entity, and it tells you what it wants to be," Cuse said.
The two also allowed that occasional fan questions would work their way into the show -- for instance, rampant fan speculation on why Hurley wasn't losing weight led to a Season Two scene where he revealed a secret stash of DHARMA food -- but they, for the most part, are following their own course, even if it occasionally leads down disastrous trails, as with the much-maligned Nikki and Paolo episodes from Season Three. The characters were introduced because the show had no end date and needed to keep coming up with new characters to tell stories about, Cuse said, but it became quickly obvious that the introduction was a mistake.
"We are fallible. We make mistakes. The question is, when we make mistakes, how obvious are they?" Lindelof said, saying that most mistakes were caught so early the audience didn't really notice them even beginning to develop.
The flash-sideways scenes of the final season grew out of a desire to return to the sense the show had in Season One that all of its characters could have mysterious pasts and be revealed to be just about anything, Cuse said. It was both a way to examine how far the characters have come since the show began and a way to place them in new contexts and see what happened.
"Isn't Sawyer the same guy?" Lindelof said of the sideways universe. "He's a cop here; he's a con man there. But isn't he the same guy?"
Late in the program, the two were joined by actors Michael Emerson, who plays the enigmatic Ben Linus, and Jorge Garcia, who plays the gregarious Hurley. Emerson and Garcia arrived too late to offer up any real answers, though Garcia allowed his favorite non-Hurley character was Ben (who "gets to say some of the darnedest things," prompting Emerson, Cuse and Lindelof to reimagine a "Ben Says the Darnedest Things" spinoff) and Emerson said he always liked Mr. Eko to the same question. Cuse and Lindelof also asked Garcia if he, as a big fan of the show in addition to an actor on it, thought the finale answered the questions he had about the series. "As a fan," Garcia said, "I think I got it," with only a little hesitation.
Cuse and Lindelof allowed that they can't answer everything to everyone's satisfaction, but they also thought some things have been made too much of. As an example, they responded to a fan's query about the psychic who insisted both that Claire's unborn child would be special and that she had to get on a plane to Los Angeles with the fact that an episode in Season Two had revealed that character -- the only one who ever said Aaron was special -- as a hoax. But that seems to rarely satisfy those who watch the show.
"We'll give these explanations, and people will be, like, 'Nope. Why is he special?'" Lindelof said.
But it would be all but impossible to get out of a "Lost" event without a few spoilers. While Lindelof, Cuse, Emerson and Garcia only let a few slip, they also showed a scene from the finale, which hinted at some fairly interesting ideas. Suffice it to say, if you want to go into Sunday's finale completely unspoiled, don't read the next paragraph.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/05/lost-thursdays-theyre-gonna-put-darlton-in-the-movies.html
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Jorge Garcia: Tonight's Episode Of 'Lost' Is 'Really Part of The Finale'
"Lost" star Jorge Garcia made an appearance on Tuesday's edition of "The View" and spent much of his segment trying not to give anything away about the show's finale.
Joy Behar mentioned to Garcia that she had read that the show's creators knew how the show was going to end when they were writing the first episode.
Garcia responded carefully, as he attempted to answer the question without revealing anything.
"Yeah...when you see the end...I think you'll see...what they are referring to. You know, what the final image of 'Lost' is...I don't know how sure they were about everything else that happened in between."
Garcia also said that he felt that tonight's episode was really part one of the finale, since the episode "sets everything in motion."
Whoopi Goldberg mentioned the several different realities on the show, including the sideways world. Garcia slyly commented that "you can't write off either reality. You can't say one is real and one is not real. But it pays off real nice."
http://www.allyourtv.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1233:jorge-garcia-tonights-episode-of-lost-is-really-part-of-the-finale&catid=1:latest-news
Joy Behar mentioned to Garcia that she had read that the show's creators knew how the show was going to end when they were writing the first episode.
Garcia responded carefully, as he attempted to answer the question without revealing anything.
"Yeah...when you see the end...I think you'll see...what they are referring to. You know, what the final image of 'Lost' is...I don't know how sure they were about everything else that happened in between."
Garcia also said that he felt that tonight's episode was really part one of the finale, since the episode "sets everything in motion."
Whoopi Goldberg mentioned the several different realities on the show, including the sideways world. Garcia slyly commented that "you can't write off either reality. You can't say one is real and one is not real. But it pays off real nice."
http://www.allyourtv.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1233:jorge-garcia-tonights-episode-of-lost-is-really-part-of-the-finale&catid=1:latest-news
'LOST' finale satisfies Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Posted by Corinne Heller at 09:00:00 AM
Josh Holloway and Jorge Garcia, who play Sawyer and Hurley on LOST, say they are satisfied about how the series ends in the finale, set to air on May 23.
"I had a big smile when I finished reading it - I was like, 'Well, they did it. How did they do that?' But I am satisfied. I hope the audience has the same reaction," Holloway told George Pennacchio of KABC Television, OnTheRedCarpet.com's parent company.
Holloway made his comments on Thursday ahead of the "LOSTLive: The Final Celebration" event at the University of California in Los Angeles, which featured the cast members, a sneak peek into the second-to-last episode of the six-season series and a symphonic performance of music from the show.
'I was really satisfied when I read the end," said Jorge Garcia, who plays Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. "It was a great read and I was like, 'Good.'"
http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/2010/05/lost-finale-satisfies-josh-holloway-jorge-garcia.html
Posted by Corinne Heller at 09:00:00 AM
Josh Holloway and Jorge Garcia, who play Sawyer and Hurley on LOST, say they are satisfied about how the series ends in the finale, set to air on May 23.
"I had a big smile when I finished reading it - I was like, 'Well, they did it. How did they do that?' But I am satisfied. I hope the audience has the same reaction," Holloway told George Pennacchio of KABC Television, OnTheRedCarpet.com's parent company.
Holloway made his comments on Thursday ahead of the "LOSTLive: The Final Celebration" event at the University of California in Los Angeles, which featured the cast members, a sneak peek into the second-to-last episode of the six-season series and a symphonic performance of music from the show.
'I was really satisfied when I read the end," said Jorge Garcia, who plays Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. "It was a great read and I was like, 'Good.'"
http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/2010/05/lost-finale-satisfies-josh-holloway-jorge-garcia.html
Lost's Hurley satisfied with ending
(UKPA) – 4 days ago
Lost's Jorge Garcia thinks fans should be pleased with the show's dramatic ending.
But the actor, who plays Hurley, said viewers may need to be prepared for some emotional scenes.
He said: "I'm satisfied with it. I think it's going to be a pretty wide range of emotions - you might want to keep the tissues close and someone's arm to grab onto at the exciting moments."
The actor, joined by many of his fellow castaway castmates, celebrated the end of an era at a special party for fans in Los Angeles.
Jorge admitted there was no time to get emotional while they were shooting the finale.
"We [were] too busy really. There was so much work at the end to get done, you didn't have a moment to pause or get emotional," he explained.
"In a sense it was good being so busy that you didn't have enough time to be sad, it was just kind of like getting it done, especially that last day was I think the longest day I've ever worked."
Executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof said they were confident that fans haven't guessed the ending yet. "Surprisingly ... we don't really feel like a lot of people have figured it out and said 'I know how Lost is going to end' and that's kind of miraculous that we're this close and there still are surprises," Carlton said.
Damon joked he hoped fans wouldn't be "throwing things at their television in rage" at the finale, which will air in the UK on Friday 28 May.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5in5P6Ttislwd9CvPP8xy4lmRLrGw
Lost's Jorge Garcia thinks fans should be pleased with the show's dramatic ending.
But the actor, who plays Hurley, said viewers may need to be prepared for some emotional scenes.
He said: "I'm satisfied with it. I think it's going to be a pretty wide range of emotions - you might want to keep the tissues close and someone's arm to grab onto at the exciting moments."
The actor, joined by many of his fellow castaway castmates, celebrated the end of an era at a special party for fans in Los Angeles.
Jorge admitted there was no time to get emotional while they were shooting the finale.
"We [were] too busy really. There was so much work at the end to get done, you didn't have a moment to pause or get emotional," he explained.
"In a sense it was good being so busy that you didn't have enough time to be sad, it was just kind of like getting it done, especially that last day was I think the longest day I've ever worked."
Executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof said they were confident that fans haven't guessed the ending yet. "Surprisingly ... we don't really feel like a lot of people have figured it out and said 'I know how Lost is going to end' and that's kind of miraculous that we're this close and there still are surprises," Carlton said.
Damon joked he hoped fans wouldn't be "throwing things at their television in rage" at the finale, which will air in the UK on Friday 28 May.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5in5P6Ttislwd9CvPP8xy4lmRLrGw
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
‘Lost’ Star: Action-Filled Finale Needed Extra Minutes to ‘Breathe’
by Matt Webb Mitovich
May 5th, 2010 5:26 PM
‘Lost‘ star Michael Emerson says he’s “not surprised at all” that the series finale airing Sunday, May 23, has been expanded to two-and-a-half hours.
“The finale script was so thick and so dense with action,” Emerson tells Fancast. “When we were shooting it, we went so far overtime that I thought, ‘How are they ever going to squeeze all this into two hours?!’”
As it turned out, when executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse Tweeted on Monday that they were “done” editing the finale, they themselves apparently had realized that an extra twenty-some minutes of content would benefit the sure-to-be-dense climax.
“If ‘Lost’ has any flaws, it’s that occasionally we suffer from trying to cut too big a show [for the given time slot],” Emerson says. “So I’m happy to hear they thought there was enough great stuff that they had to let it breathe. It’s a really great sign.”
http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/tv-news/lost-star-expanded-action-packed-finale-now-can-breathe/
May 5th, 2010 5:26 PM
‘Lost‘ star Michael Emerson says he’s “not surprised at all” that the series finale airing Sunday, May 23, has been expanded to two-and-a-half hours.
“The finale script was so thick and so dense with action,” Emerson tells Fancast. “When we were shooting it, we went so far overtime that I thought, ‘How are they ever going to squeeze all this into two hours?!’”
As it turned out, when executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse Tweeted on Monday that they were “done” editing the finale, they themselves apparently had realized that an extra twenty-some minutes of content would benefit the sure-to-be-dense climax.
“If ‘Lost’ has any flaws, it’s that occasionally we suffer from trying to cut too big a show [for the given time slot],” Emerson says. “So I’m happy to hear they thought there was enough great stuff that they had to let it breathe. It’s a really great sign.”
http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/tv-news/lost-star-expanded-action-packed-finale-now-can-breathe/
‘Lost’ Finale Special to Air Alternate Endings, Locks in Stars
by Tracy Phillips
May 7th, 2010 10:01 AM
Are you ready for Lost-a-pa-looza!?!
Plans are coming into place for the festivities surrounding the series finale of ‘Lost,’ as the beloved mystery drama gets a grand send-off of epic proportions.
I’ve tallied the details below for My Dear Losties, so you can plan your ‘Lost’ finale parties appropriately (don’t forget to go to CostCo and buy a case of Kleenex, then hit the Liquor Mart for two cases of booze, because we’re going to need to drown our sorrows in a boatload of Mai Tais).
The ‘Lost’ weekend of May 23 (5/23, ‘23′ is a Number, ‘5′ is a recurring theme) is so jam packed with All Things Lost, it’s like an eight-hour finale (that’s a Number).
‘Lost’ is going out with what is sure to be a mind-blowing series finale, and because there’s so much Lostie goodness involved, ABC has expanded the final episode to a two-and-a-half hour series finale on Sunday, May 23.
The series finale, called ‘The End,’ will be immediately followed by a live special, ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost,’ which will feature a bunch of cast members, as well as alternative final scenes.*
*NOTE: It’s unclear whether these segments will be actual scenes shot by producers for the show (perhaps as decoys) or if they will be comedic skits produced by huge ‘Lost’ fan Jimmy Kimmel in conjunction with the creators.
According to the release:
Kimmel will be joined in the studio by Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Alan Dale, Jeremy Davies, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Daniel Dae Kim, Terry O’Quinn and Harold Perrineau, with special appearances by Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway and Evangeline Lilly and an exclusive look at THREE ALTERNATIVE FINAL SCENES from the minds of executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
My mind is churning over why Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Evangeline Lilly (Kate) and Jorge Garcia (Hurley) are phrased as ’special appearances,’ which are rumored to be pre-taped. It could mean nothing, of course. Or could it mean, they’re dead?!?
Now let’s put our over-analysis caps on and talk about who’s missing from ‘The List.’ Is it simply because the actors were unavailable (who would miss this party, seriously?!), or does it portend something about the character’s fate?
Here’s who’s not on ‘The List’: Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Sonya Walger (Penny), Dominic Monaghan (Charlie), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Ken Leung (Miles) and Jeff Fahey (Lapidus). No cameos by the Man in Black (Titus Welliver) or Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) either.
One noteworthy inclusion on ‘The List’: Jeremy Davies… does this mean Daniel Faraday may have a pivotal part in the final hours? (I, for one, hope so.)
*And true to their assertions, Lindelof and Cuse will not be in studio, as they have sworn they’re ‘going into hiding’ after the series finale airs.
Here’s the schedule of events for the ‘Lost’ weekend:
♥ See how it all began: The two-hour ‘Lost’ pilot episode airs Saturday, May 22, at 8 p.m./est. Note: This debut episode will be ‘enhanced’ with ‘pop-ups’–and they aren’t totally useless–occasionally there are helpful tidbits revealed in those captions that even we die-hard fans may have missed the first time around.
♥ ‘Lost: The Final Journey’ – a two-hour retrospective — begins at 7 p.m./est on Sunday, May 23.
♥ The super-sized ‘Lost’ series finale airs from 9 to 11:30 p.m./est on Sunday, May 23.
♥ The post-finale special ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost’ airs at 12:05 a.m./est.
http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/tv-news/lost-finale-special-to-air-alternate-endings/?cmpid=FCST_tvnews
May 7th, 2010 10:01 AM
Are you ready for Lost-a-pa-looza!?!
Plans are coming into place for the festivities surrounding the series finale of ‘Lost,’ as the beloved mystery drama gets a grand send-off of epic proportions.
I’ve tallied the details below for My Dear Losties, so you can plan your ‘Lost’ finale parties appropriately (don’t forget to go to CostCo and buy a case of Kleenex, then hit the Liquor Mart for two cases of booze, because we’re going to need to drown our sorrows in a boatload of Mai Tais).
The ‘Lost’ weekend of May 23 (5/23, ‘23′ is a Number, ‘5′ is a recurring theme) is so jam packed with All Things Lost, it’s like an eight-hour finale (that’s a Number).
‘Lost’ is going out with what is sure to be a mind-blowing series finale, and because there’s so much Lostie goodness involved, ABC has expanded the final episode to a two-and-a-half hour series finale on Sunday, May 23.
The series finale, called ‘The End,’ will be immediately followed by a live special, ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost,’ which will feature a bunch of cast members, as well as alternative final scenes.*
*NOTE: It’s unclear whether these segments will be actual scenes shot by producers for the show (perhaps as decoys) or if they will be comedic skits produced by huge ‘Lost’ fan Jimmy Kimmel in conjunction with the creators.
According to the release:
Kimmel will be joined in the studio by Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Alan Dale, Jeremy Davies, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Daniel Dae Kim, Terry O’Quinn and Harold Perrineau, with special appearances by Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway and Evangeline Lilly and an exclusive look at THREE ALTERNATIVE FINAL SCENES from the minds of executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
My mind is churning over why Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Evangeline Lilly (Kate) and Jorge Garcia (Hurley) are phrased as ’special appearances,’ which are rumored to be pre-taped. It could mean nothing, of course. Or could it mean, they’re dead?!?
Now let’s put our over-analysis caps on and talk about who’s missing from ‘The List.’ Is it simply because the actors were unavailable (who would miss this party, seriously?!), or does it portend something about the character’s fate?
Here’s who’s not on ‘The List’: Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Sonya Walger (Penny), Dominic Monaghan (Charlie), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Ken Leung (Miles) and Jeff Fahey (Lapidus). No cameos by the Man in Black (Titus Welliver) or Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) either.
One noteworthy inclusion on ‘The List’: Jeremy Davies… does this mean Daniel Faraday may have a pivotal part in the final hours? (I, for one, hope so.)
*And true to their assertions, Lindelof and Cuse will not be in studio, as they have sworn they’re ‘going into hiding’ after the series finale airs.
Here’s the schedule of events for the ‘Lost’ weekend:
♥ See how it all began: The two-hour ‘Lost’ pilot episode airs Saturday, May 22, at 8 p.m./est. Note: This debut episode will be ‘enhanced’ with ‘pop-ups’–and they aren’t totally useless–occasionally there are helpful tidbits revealed in those captions that even we die-hard fans may have missed the first time around.
♥ ‘Lost: The Final Journey’ – a two-hour retrospective — begins at 7 p.m./est on Sunday, May 23.
♥ The super-sized ‘Lost’ series finale airs from 9 to 11:30 p.m./est on Sunday, May 23.
♥ The post-finale special ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost’ airs at 12:05 a.m./est.
http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/tv-news/lost-finale-special-to-air-alternate-endings/?cmpid=FCST_tvnews
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
LOST series finale gets extra 30 Minutes!
Well, TPTB over at LOST have decided they need a lil more time to finish their saga. Lucky for us! There will be an extra half hour added to the big finale on Sunday, May 23rd. Instead of ending at 11pm, the finale hour will now run until 11:30pm, pushing back your late local news and Jimmy Kimmel's LOST send off episode by a half hour each. So...If you find yourself busy with other things that nite (REALLY? You have something MORE important that the LOST finale?), make sure you check those DVRS!
The whole story is here, along with (spoilery, if you didn't see it) comments about last night's episode "The Candidate" from Damon Lindeloff.
http://www.tvshark.com/read/?art=arc5123
BTW...the article doesn't say...but you wonder if this was Darlton's idea...or ABC's? Extending the finale that night gives ABC an extra 30 minutes to suck advertisers dry with those 'Super Bowl' size ad rates they are charging...especially in the final few minutes of the episode. Shrewd business move...or artistic creative license? Probably a lil of both.
The whole story is here, along with (spoilery, if you didn't see it) comments about last night's episode "The Candidate" from Damon Lindeloff.
http://www.tvshark.com/read/?art=arc5123
BTW...the article doesn't say...but you wonder if this was Darlton's idea...or ABC's? Extending the finale that night gives ABC an extra 30 minutes to suck advertisers dry with those 'Super Bowl' size ad rates they are charging...especially in the final few minutes of the episode. Shrewd business move...or artistic creative license? Probably a lil of both.
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