Interviews met Jack, Carlton en Damon

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Video interviews met Damon Lindelof en Carlton Cuse

Secrets of Lost #12

Lost's schokkende dood

And you thought the next grave was going to be Juliet's... Wrong!

Time-traveling expert Daniel Faraday (nicknamed "Twitchy" by Sawyer) has become the latest Lostie to bite the big one, leaving the 1970's Dharmaville outcasts to fend for themselves just when they need him most.

Executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof commend Jeremy Davies for pulling off an increasingly bizarro role--and taking the news of his firing better than any of their previous island victims.

“For us, Faraday really was the cornerstone of the fifth season--he really shined,” says Lindelof. "I can’t imagine what Season 5 would have looked like without Jeremy Davies. When you think about all the crazy stuff that had to come out of that guy’s mouth, for him to be as interesting and emotional and poetic as he was is really extraordinary."

Lindelof and Cuse say they were impressed by how gracefully Davies dealt with his dismissal. While disappointed to be losing a paycheck, the actor saw his departure as essential to their storytelling. Lindelof says, "When Carlton and I called Jeremy to explain what was going to be happening with Faraday, we’ve never had a more awesome exit interview with somebody on the show.”

“It was an incredibly painful thing to kill this beloved character," Cuse adds, "but we feel that’s what this show has to do. His death is kind of the culminating event in the entire season. It really ends one chapter and commences the start of the final chapter of the entire series. Once we explained that to Jeremy, while he was personally saddened that his full-time status on Lost was coming to an end, he put the story above his own personal self.” (Hmmm...notice Cuse's wording: "full-time status".)

So why was now the right time to do him in?

"When we kill off a character we want the audience to say, ‘How dare you!,’ not, ‘It’s about time,’” explains Lindelof, who was particularly impressed with Davies' final scenes. “He has never been better than he was in 'The Variable.'"

Michael Emerson, who plays Ben, praises Davies as “a great sensitive guy who got deep into his character. He really lived it.” (And died it!)

Around the set, Terry O’Quinn (John Locke) will miss Davies and the music that always accompanied him. “Most actors walk around with headphones, but Jeremy would walk around holding a miniature boom box," recalls O'Quinn. "He always wanted to provide music for everyone--whether they wanted it or not. Everybody would go, ‘What’s up with this dude?’”

O'Quinn remembers the time Davies brought his boom box out into the water during an action scene. “We were out paddling in a canoe with me, Ken Leung (Miles), Josh (Sawyer), Jeremy and Elizabeth (Juliet) and we ended up flipping a half mile out to sea. The first thing I thought of when I came up was, 'I hope Jeremy’s f---ing boom box went to the bottom--and it did. But he replaced it real quick.”

Davies won't be so easily replaced. Do you think Faraday was killed off too soon? Or were you tired of his time-traveling jargon?

Bron: TV Guide Magazine

Secrets of Lost #11

Schrijvers praten over het laatste seizoen

On "Lost," a solved mystery inevitably means an even knottier one will emerge in its place. How fitting, then, that answering "when" ABC's acclaimed island drama would end wound up raising expectations for "how."

"Anticipation for the series finale is incredibly high," says Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment Group. "I'm sure it'll mean a few sleepless nights for Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse."

Not too many, if the exec producers have anything to say about it.

"We can't let those expectations terrify us," Lindelof insists. "The reality is, we've known what the series finale is going to be for a while now."

The only wiggle room is in how exactly the characters will arrive at their ultimate destinations. Explains Cuse, "The path that we take to the end still has some room for surprises and changes and discoveries along the way (in terms of) the characters' journeys and how their relationships evolve."

Getting Lindelof and Cuse to spill even a drop of a detail about how they plan to wrap the whole thing up? Not gonna happen.

"We think it's cool," Lindelof says, "and that's the way we will have written the 119 hours of the show that precede it."

They will, however, share some goals for the final episode: Be fair to the show's characters. Deliver on promises they've made to fans over the course of the series' run. And, as the old adage goes, leave 'em wanting more.

"When we say more, we don't mean answers," clarifies Lindelof, "because hopefully, the show will wrap up in an incredibly satisfying way, both mythologically and emotionally."

Of course, as that other old adage goes, you can't please everybody, and Lindelof and Cuse already have begun preparing themselves for myriad reactions. The way Lindelof sees it, "The immediate aftermath of any beloved series, whether it be 'Battlestar Galactica,' 'The Sopranos' or 'Seinfeld,' is so overwhelming that it's incredibly hard to distance yourself from the creative choices made leading up to it."

Ultimately, the producers are more concerned with the way "Lost" is regarded long after its final whoosh through time.

"How the show is perceived as a whole once you kind of take a step away and look back at it," Lindelof says, "that's the one that really matters to us."

Bron: Variety

Jules Verne festival foto's, video's, verslagen

Er zijn vele foto's, video's en verslagen van het Jules Verne festival op het internet gekomen. Het gaat hier om het Franse festival waar Michael Emerson, Evangeline Lilly, Damon Lindelof en Carlton Cuse te gast waren.

Klik hier voor een verzameling foto's etc.

Lostpedia interview met Damon en Carlton

Lostpedia heeft een interview gehouden met Damon Lindelof en Carlton Cuse, je kunt het hier lezen.

Damon en Carlton in de jury

Bravo has announced that the spinoff reality series, Top Chef Masters, will premiere June 10, according to the Los Angeles Times. The show will feature 24 "world-renowned chefs," as well as a slew of guest judges including Neil Patrick Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Morgan Spurlock, Lost writers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, and all of the prior winners from Top Chef. The winning chef will be awarded $100,000, which will be donated to a charity of his or her choice. Food journalist Kelly Choi will serve as the show's host.

Source: EW

Live handtekening van Damon en Carlton

Excuses van Damon en Carlton

We hadden nog maar net het bericht over de boze Rebecca Mader geplaatst, maar nu hebben we alweer excuses van Damon en Carlton gevonden.

"Rebecca is absolutely right and we apologize to both her and the entire fan community for screwing up the story," the pair said in a joint email. "By way of explanation, here's what happened:

There were a gazillion questions about the timeline discrepancy in that young Charlotte clearly exists in 1974, but wasn't supposed to be born until 1979, per a single line of dialogue courtesy of Ben back in episode #402. When we inquired as to how this happened, the intel came back that we used Rebecca Mader's birthday, July 2, 1979 because she was actually eight years YOUNGER than the character as originally conceived/scripted. We misremembered this as having come from Rebecca herself on the set, but in fact, it came several days earlier when our continuity expert Gregg Nations pointed it out and suggested using Rebecca's actual birthday for Charlotte. And so, the mistake was OURS. Rebecca's production draft DID have the date as being 1979.

Our first mistake was the timeline gaffe, but the much more significant one was wrapping Rebecca up in this when she had nothing to do with it. Not her fault on any level. It was our bad. One hundred percent. We will say as much in a very special "Eating Crow" edition of our Podcast tomorrow. Speaking of which, what a wonderful world we live in where we can make a comment in a Podcast that triggers a response on someone's Facebook page and that triggers a mea culpa on someone else's blog. Ah, technology."

Bron: Entertainment Weekly

Rebecca Mader boos op Damon Lindelof en Carlton Cuse

Rebecca Mader is boos na de uitspraken van Damon en Carlton in de laatste Lost podcast.

Pissed
I just wanted to say that I NEVER changed my age on the set of LOST as Damon and Carlton accused me of on the most recent LOST podcast.
Charlotte Lewis was ALWAYS meant to be 28 and born in 1979.
It was written in the script EP # 402 of which I have a copy and I can prove this!
They made a mistake.
They are making it MY fault.
NOT COOL.

Rebecca Mader.

Bron: Rebecca Mader MySpace

Denk mee over de bijnaam voor de laatste scenes

Alle fans kunnen een meedenken over een bijnaam voor de laatste scenes van dit seizoen.

Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof promised to call me as soon as they came up with a nickname for the closing — and assuredly jaw-dropping — scene of this season's finale, which is now slated for May 13.

The thing is, the boys aren't nicknaming that moment this year.

You are.

TVGuide.com has learned exclusively that in this week's official Lost podcast, posting to ABC.com on Thursday, Team Darlton will formally invite viewers to suggest a nickname for the season finale's final moment.

In seasons past, that head-scratcher has been dubbed "Bagel" (Walt is abducted by the Others!), "Challah" (Penny's research team locates the island!), "The Rattlesnake in the Mailbox" (Jack is flashing forward!) and "Frozen Donkey Wheel" (which, quite literally, Ben rotated to move the island).

The ink is barely dry on the finale script and it's at least a week from being filmed, so you'll just have to go with your gut when conjuring up a nickname.

Submissions can be directed to ABC.com/asklost, with the producers' pick being announced on ABC's March 26 podcast.

Source: TV Guide