Via EW.com:

[...]Another key member of Abrams’ Trek team was Damon Lindelof, who co-created Lost with him. The basic premise for the show — castaways marooned on an island; a dramatic gloss on Gilligan’s Island that melded both Survivor and Castaway — originated with ABC. Abrams and Lindelof met when then-ABC president Lloyd Braun paired them up to take a crack fleshing out the idea. “I met Damon on a Monday,” recalls Abrams, “and over the next five days, we worked on an outline for the show with two other writers, Jesse Alexander [also an Alias vet; he’s now the creator/exec producer of NBC’s upcoming sci-fi drama Day One] and Jeff Pinkner [yet another Alias vet; he’s now the exec producer of Fringe]. By Saturday, we were working on the pilot.”

Although Abrams is so identified with Lost, he takes pains to credit the show’s success to its chief storytellers, Lindelof and executive producer Carlton Cuse, who joined the series right at the start of season one — right after Abrams decided to basically leave his just-launched enterprise to direct Mission. “Frankly, where Damon and Carlton and Jack Bender [the show’s lead director and Hawaii major domo] have taken the show could only have been hoped for back when we were first brainstorming the world and tone and characters. Whenever anyone says ’I love Lost,’ I always emphatically say that it’s all Damon and Carlton and the work their team has been doing.”

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Via Movieweb:

Jeff, when you look at Alias and you look at Lost and you look at Fringe, in my mind these are three really, really brilliant shows, but they’ve all had sort of rating issues. Is it the time slot, is it the complexity, what do you think people are looking for, and why do you think people are not tuning in, in larger numbers?

Jeff Pinkner: I think that, it’s funny, JJ Abrams and I have had this conversation on more than one occasion, and I think that Fringe, Lost, Alias, absolutely there’s a time slot issue, but at the end of the day, it’s more important to us that people fall in love with the shows. I’ve said before that these shows to me are like licorice, not everybody likes licorice, but the people that like licorice, love it. And I think it’s always been more important to us that we create shows that people can get passionate about. And the truth is, there’s only so much time in the day to get passionate about something, and there’s a lot of really great shows on. We never take it as a indication of the quality of our shows, how many people watch. It’s more important to us that the people that watch, really care about it deeply.

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Via Jennifer Goodwin:

So What Is Lost’s One True Pairing? We find that a lot of good literature follows the same tropes and arcs, so in hopes of getting a teeny-tiny bit of clarity on the final-season direction of some of Lost’s major romantic storylines, we asked Lost boss Lindelof to compare Sawyer’s love life on Lost to the love story in any other fictional work. “Wow,” said Lindelof, “Sawyer’s love life compared to any…” (He looked a little dazed at all the possible options, so we threw The Notebook, Jane Eyre and Gilligan’s Island at him as totally random starting points for thinking about the question.) “All way off so far!” Lindelof said, “Perhaps the relationship between Gilligan and the Skipper, because there’s a lot of hitting on the head with hats…OK. Serious…I think Wuthering Heights is probably a good one then. We’ve got a little Heathcliff action going on.”

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Via Cinema Blend:

Adapting a novel is a touchy task. One wrong move and you’ll spoil a beloved book or run the risk of a film adaption with limited appeal. Back in February 2007, J.J. Abrams was gung-ho about bringing Stephen King’s seven-book series Dark Tower to life. As of today, his apprehension about not doing the series justice, makes the plan just a thing of the past.

It seems as though the pressure of bringing such extensive source material to the big screen, forced Abrams and his Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof to push the plan aside, if not hand it off to someone else completely. In October, Lindelof told USA Today, “You’ll be hard-pressed to find a huger fan of The Dark Tower than me, but that’s probably the reason that I shouldn’t be the one to adapt it. After working six years on Lost, the last thing I want to do is spend the next seven years adapting one of my favorite books of all time. I’m such a massive Stephen King fan that I’m terrified of screwing it up. I’d do anything to see those movies written by someone else. My guess is they will get made because they’re so incredible. But not by me.”

Now, we hear a similar sentiment from Abrams. He explained to MTV, “The Dark Tower thing is tricky. It’s such an important piece of writing. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now.”

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There was a funny LOST reference in last night’s episode of 30 Rock. You can watch it below:

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Via Bangor Daily News:

[...] In 2006, Abrams and his fellow “Lost” producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse came to Bangor [Maine] at the behest of Entertainment Weekly for a round-table discussion on creativity with Stephen King, who writes that magazine’s monthly The Pop of King column (among other things).

“That was the most fun interview ever,” Abrams exclaimed in a phone interview from his office in California. “We went to his house, then he took us out to get dinner at a family restaurant, then we went to Hoyts Cinema to watch ‘The Descent.’ That was the most fun you could have watching a horror movie.”

“Lost,” which Abrams co-created with Lindelof, begins its sixth and final season in January. He has mixed feelings about its approaching end.

“I don’t want to find myself wishing that it had ended a year earlier,” he said. “It’s better to go out on your own terms rather than just petering out.”

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ABRAMSology.com is a new weblog that features news related to J.J. Abrams and his work: LOST, FRINGE, Alias, Star Trek, Cloverfield… The creator of the weblog, Nathan, has invited SL-LOST to join the ABRAMSology Team to keep its readers up-to-date with everything related to LOST!

Links: ABRAMSology.com | ABRAMSology RSS Feed | Twitter @ABRAMSology

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Thanks to Tara for the heads up.

How is Lost going to make sense of all these timelines they’ve started and perhaps altered?

Abrams: Every Lost question should be directed to Damon Lindelof, and I’ll give you his home number later. He said any hours you can call him. I don’t know what that means.

Could you come back to direct an episode of Lost?

Abrams: I’d love to direct another episode. It would be fun. You have to ask Damon, same thing.

Is there room in your schedule to do another show when you’re already stretched so thin with movies?

Abrams: Well, sadly, I’m working on a couple things right now that will test your theory, but the fact is that I’m working with some people like Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman, who are running Fringe, though it’s not quite the same thing as when I did Lost with Damon Lindelof. He really has run that show since the first year.

My involvement with Fringe, though, much more so than Lost, is, generally speaking, becoming less and less critical, because Jeff and Joel are there every day, and they’re really running. So when I wrote the first episode and am involved in this season, they’re doing an amazing job, which helps free up time to work on other things. I am incredibly ADD in that way.

[Via Sci Fi Wire]

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Despite the 11 nominations the show received 3 months ago, LOST only won one Saturn Award for Best Network Series at the 35th annual Saturn Awards held yesterday. J.J. Abrams accepted the award on stage.

BEST NETWORK TELEVISION SERIES: LOST.

BEST ACTOR: Matthew Fox. Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica).

BEST ACTRESS: Evangeline Lilly. Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica).

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Henry Ian Cusick, Michael Emerson & Josh Holloway. Adrian Pasdar (Heroes).

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Elizabeth Mitchell & Yunjin Kim. Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter).

BEST GUEST STARRING ROLE: Alan Dale (Charles Widmore), Kevin Durand (Keamy) & Sonya Walger (Penny). Jimmy Smits (Dexter).

BEST TELEVISION SERIES RELEASE ON DVD: LOST. Moonlight.

[Via saturnawards.org]

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