Damon Lindelof Interview

Lees het nieuwe interview met Lost producer Damon Lindelof.

Damon spreekt

In deze video vertelt Damon Lindelof over spoilers tegen de fans van Lost.

Interview met Damon Lindelof

Last night in Beverly Hills, Sci Fi Crush got the chance to speak briefly with Damon Lindelof, executive producer of Lost and co-writer of the upcoming Star Trek sequel.

The hit ABC series, Lost, approaches its sixth and final season in 2010. Lindelof described writing the last episodes to be “an enormous emotional experience” and confirmed that the show’s ending has been in the works since the very beginning.

The writer also promised Lost fans that all of the show’s loose ends will be tied up in a fair and satisfying way. ”We hope that all who put their faith in us to resolve these stories will be rewarded. We’ve really been writing this season for the fans.”

Damon Lindelof also produced this summer’s reboot of Star Trek and has been working with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci on developing the sequel. ”It’s in the preliminary stages,” he said, “We’ve thrown around some cool ideas, but that’s it.”

Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are up for an Emmy for their two-parter Lost episode, “The Incident.”

We wish them all the best.

Bron: Sci Fi Crush

Interviews met Jack, Carlton en Damon

Hier kun je meerdere interviews bekijken met Jack Bender, Carlton Cuse en Damon Lindelof.

Video interviews met Damon Lindelof en Carlton Cuse

Secrets of Lost #12

Hoe gaat Lost eindigen?

Last Night’s ‘Lost’: How’s It Going to End?

As the castaways of Oceanic 815 celebrated the 100th episode of “Lost,” what did we viewers receive as party favors? Another episode in which the big reveal is that a supporting character is secretly the child of two other supporting characters. (Will we next learn that Ben is the son of the smoke monster and the four-toed statue?) And another episode in which the plot increments could be measured only at the sub-atomic level.

We’re now less than two weeks away from the “Lost” season finale — ostensibly the last major cliffhanger its creative team can cook up, before the show’s final season begins in 2010 — and yet events are unfolding so slowly, we have to wonder more than ever: Do the producers of “Lost” really know where they’re going with this thing?

When we met with Damon Lindelof, an executive producer and co-creator of “Lost,” not long ago to talk about “Star Trek,” we asked him how he and his staff were preparing for the final year of the show. Here was his (appropriately cryptic) answer:

There’s so much organizational power, especially now. The less episodes there are, the more you have to go, like, “Oh my God, we have to do this. When are we going to do that?” We always get asked iterations of the same question which is, “Are you making it up as you go along?” It’s a very complicated question to answer, but ultimately, we have all the story but we don’t know what order we’re going to tell it in. So it’s like “Pulp Fiction.”

There was always an option in past seasons which was, “Let’s hold it for next year. I don’t think they’re ready for that,” or “That’ll have more emotional impact later.” And then there are also actor deals to contend with – what’s the stable of regulars you can maintain at any one time? Next year, I feel like for the first time we’ll have the entire box of crayons to color with, without having to worry about the mechanics. All our ducks are in a row.

I think one of our biggest concerns is reaching the climax of the story too soon – you have to time it right, you have to walk that line between giving a steady supply of story and character pathos and mysteries being answered along the way, so that the audience doesn’t feel like it all comes in one big chunk. But then if you do it too soon, they kind of feel like, “I got everything that I cared about halfway through the season, so why am I still watching?” And it’s terrifying. Finally, we’re going to do it. There’s no excuses, we don’t get to say, “We didn’t get to end the show on our own terms. They kept us on the air three years longer than we wanted to be. Blah blah blah.” It’s like “Galactica,” you have to say, “Here it is, do you like it? I hope you like it.” There’s a lot of second-guessing going on. I think the show will end exactly as it began. There’ll be people who love it, there’ll be people who hate it. There’ll be people who’ll be confused by it, there’ll be people who love being confused. It’ll end on its own terms.


Did that answer all your lingering questions? Got any theories of your own about how the current season of “Lost” might wrap up, and where the show will go in its final year? Let us know in the comments below.

(Incidentally, in the scene when Charles Widmore comes to visit Daniel Faraday, did you wonder why the camera seemed to flash gratuitously on a back issue of Wired magazine? The Twitter-sphere is wondering, too.)

Source: NY Times

Cast en Crew bij Star Trek premiere

Foto's van Lost cast en crew bij de Star Trek première, je kunt ze hier vinden.

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.

Video interview met Damon Lindelof

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

Bruce Springsteen heeft meegeholpen aan Lost

Many great partnerships are forged in unusual places: Would we have airplanes today if not for Orville and Wilbur Wright’s bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio? Would Microsoft exist if Bill Gates and Paul Allen hadn’t met in a prep-school computer club? And would we be watching “Lost,” and looking ahead to the summer reboot of “Star Trek,” if its creators hadn’t first encountered each other at a fateful Bruce Springsteen concert?

In this audio excerpt from a longer conversation with the brain trust behind “Star Trek” (which we’ll have finished wading through and written up by next month), Damon Lindelof, a creator and executive producer of “Lost” and a producer of “Star Trek,” recalls how he first encountered J.J. Abrams, his “Lost” co-creator and “Star Trek” director, with a little help from the Boss.

Bron: NY Times

Damon Lindelof werkt mee aan Star Trek

J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot won't be seen until May 8, but Paramount is already rounding up Abrams' sci-fi friends for the sequel.

Abrams' Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof will join Fringe producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman — who penned the upcoming release — to write the screenplay for the follow-up, according to Variety. Abrams will return to produce the next installment, but no decision has been made about whether he'll also direct.

Lindelof said he hopes fans don't think he and his colleagues are getting ahead of themselves. "There's obviously a lot of hubris involved in signing on to write a sequel of a movie that hasn't even come out yet," he said. "But we're so excited about the first one that we wanted to proceed."

Kurtzman is eager to get fan reaction before deciding which way to go, but the trio hopes to deliver a script by Christmas for what could be a summer 2011 release.

Orzi and Kurtzman are currently working with Lindelof on Dreamworks' Cowboys and Aliens.

Are you happy to see Lindelof join the writing team, or do you think the writers are getting ahead of themselves?

Bron: TV Guide

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