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LOST
CREATIVE ENSEMBLE:
CREATOR J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Jeffrey Lieber
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Damon Lindelof
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER David Fury, Thom Sherman, Jack Bender
PRODUCER Sarah Caplan, Jean Higgins
PRINCIPAL CAST Matthew Fox, Ian Somerhalder, Naveen Andrews, Dominic
Monaghan, Terry O'Quinn, Jorge Garcia, Daniel Dae Kim, Malcolm David
Kelly, Harold Perrineau, Josh Holloway, Evangeline Lilly, Maggie Grace,
Emilie de Ravin, Yunjin Kim
DIRECTOR J.J. Abrams
WRITER J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Jeffrey Lieber, David Fury, Christian
Taylor, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Lynne Litt, Jennifer Johnson, Paul Dini, Jean
Higgins, Monica Macer
EDITOR Mary Jo Markey
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Michael Bonvillain
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Mark Worthington
DIGITAL EFFECTS ARTIST Kevin Blank, Mitch Suskin, Archie K. Ahuna
COMPOSER Michael Giacchino
LOST was found by American audiences this year, just when they needed to
be rescued from reality television. Confounding expectations with every
episode, the show demonstrates how fulfilling it is to be in the hands of
talented writers and storytellers. From the opening moments of the
harrowing pilot episode, LOST has played like a psychological thriller,
presenting a giant puzzle and doling out its pieces sparingly. Strange and
offbeat, and yet familiar [think GILLIGAN'S ISLAND], LOST enjoys both a
broad audience and a cult following, which is a testament to the inventive
work of the creative ensemble.
[Other TV shows that earned this honor in 2004 were: Arrested
Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Deadwood, Desperate Housewives,
Nip/Tuck, The Shield, Something in the Lord Made, The Sopranos and
South Park]
[SOURCE SITE: www.afi.com]
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Monday, July 26, 2004
LOST-TV EXCLUSIVE! Comic-Con Update!
On Saturday morning, July 24, 2004 at San Diego Comic Con, Lost-TV
talked with Executive Producer Bryan Burk. No dark and bloody secrets were
revealed... yet!
Yes, you will find out what is making that noise in the bushes, and no it is not
a dinosaur.
But "outing" the Big Noisy Thing will not be the death knell of "Lost." The
creators and producers of this series are more forward thinking than that.
This is a series for which JJ Abrams already knows how the next six seasons
will end. Or was it seven or eight seasons?
Isn't that being just a touch optimistic, you ask? After all, ABC has only
picked up the show for 11 episodes. And a full season for a TV show is 22
episodes.
Let's put it this way: "Lost" is not a series which will run out of ideas. Nor is it
a series short on savvy. Bryan paraphrased Damon Lindelof, one of the
creators of "Lost," by saying that doing a series was a lot like a cross country
drive. You have to know where you're going. You might make some detours
and you might change your destination, but you do have a general idea
about where you hope to wind up when you set out.
"We're huge fans of 'Twin Peaks,'" Bryan said. "And we loved it, but our fear
(with 'Lost') was to have a situation like 'Who Killed Laura Palmer?' In
Episode 9 (of 'Twin Peaks') they tell you and it's like, now what?"
If JJ and Co. know how each season will end for the next six (or was it eight?)
seasons, it doesn't look like "now what?" will be an issue.
The very nature of a television series puts it in a different realm of story
telling than a film. With a movie, the creators know what the end is. With a
series, there are many factors to take into consideration, particularly as the
project gains momentum. Maybe someone is cast originally as a walk on,
everyone loves the character and or the actor who portrays that character
and more scenes are added and he gets to stay. Maybe a cast member has
a developing fan base and the big, "I'm gonna die" sign blinking over his
head is turned off and he or she gets to live.
The point is, how does a writing staff maintain freshness and vitality week
after week?
By knowing how each season will end. By establishing a core group of
characters, each of whom have issues which are more or less serious. What
those issues are and how the character reacts to them will affect how the
story evolves. And, as BagEndInn's MsAllegro found out in HER
conversation with Bryan, by revealing to each cast member the nexus of only
his or her own character and not that of the others, just like real people in
real life, harboring real secrets. Each actor might have a copy of the script,
but not the backstory of the people he or she is working with. So as filming
progresses the actors will be just as surprised as the rest of us.
"Lost" is currently filming in Oahu. The cast has moved to Hawaii for now and
are well on their way to becoming locals, according to Bryan. He hinted
though that the production team was competing for space, since there
seems to be quite a few shows and projects filming on Oahu at the moment.
Bryan and other production team members are based in Los Angeles,
however, and see "dailies" which are overnighted to them. An episode takes
8 days to shoot and the shooting schedule is Monday - Friday with 12 hours
days, often longer. As of this writing, they were working on Episodes 3 and 4.
And what is Bryan's background? He's been making movies since he was
ten. We didn't ask him what would compel a ten year old to set out on that
path and stick to it but that's a question we'll save for next time.
But Bryan, while deferring all creative comments to Damon Lindelof is
definitely not out of the loop on the low down on "Lost" and its denizens. We
observed that we felt that the Big Noisy Thing had more to fear from
Evangeline Lilly's character, Kate, than anyone else on the island.
Bryan looked around innocently. "Kate has issues," he said. And that was all
he said. If we want to know what those issues are, we'll have to learn it each
Wednesday night at 8 PM starting on September 22.
But one thing we did learn. Bryan loves Lost-TV. Tom Sherman, formerly
with ABC and now overseeing all of JJ's productions, loves Lost-TV. Damon
Lindelof loves Lost-TV.
"Tell Xander we love him!" Bryan said.
More than happy to oblige!
[SOURCE SITE: www.lost-tv.com]
July 2004
"I found myself face to face with Lost's executive producer, Bryan Burk.
Since I had him there, I asked if I could ask him a few questions about the
show. More details if I remember them, but basically, the rumors about them
needing to modify content because of their early timeslot or any
conservative feeling in the industry aren't an issue. He said about the only
thing they might have to deal with is the scenes of drug use, but that
otherwise, they haven't had any pressure from ABC or Touchstone about
content issues. We talked some about Dom and how he got hooked up with
the production, and he said Charlie was originally written for someone about
10 years older, and that Dom wasn't interested in doing TV until he heard
about this and Abrams' involvement. He went in to read for the part, and the
writers absolutely adored him, and set about molding the character to his
strengths. The article where Terry O'Quinn mentions that each actor gets to
hear their character's backstory, but not the others is correct. I told Bryan
that was a fantastic idea, letting the actors get to know the other characters
organically as the season progresses. He also said that each of the main
characters would have an episode that was 'theirs' which did flashbacks, etc.
to talk about their character's backstory. Overall, the impression I got from
both him and the panel is that this isn't going to be a 'how do they get off the
island' show, but a series of character studies, which sounds great. Oh, and
Damon promised 'no dinosaurs on the island.'"
[SOURCE SITE: MsAllegro's Live Journal]