Category Archives: Behind the scenes / elsewhere

Carlton Cuse creating a new show about a spiritual guide

Carlton Cuse

According to New York Magazine’s Vulture, Carlton Cuse and author Rob Bell have signed a deal with ABC to co-write and co-executive produce a show called Stronger, about a musician who becomes a “benefactor and spiritual guide.”

The show will be “loosely based on Bell’s own life story as a musician who ended up founding his own church, Michigan’s Mars Hill Bible Church,” which is more Oprah than fire-and-brimstone.

“There’s also expected to be a narrative twist to the project that will make it a bit unconventional, but for now, that detail is being kept secret”

Carlton is also working on another show for ABC, Point of Honor, which has something to do with the Civil War, and is writing an African adventure movie which will star Hugh Jackman.

Damon Lindelof says LOST might not have lasted more than three seasons without the Internet

Damon Lindelof

Damon Lindelof was the keynote speaker at the New York Television Fest on Thursday, and he had a lot of very interesting things to say about the history of LOST. An audiotape of the talk is posted at Dark UFO. These are some excerpts from a write-up at TheWrap.com:

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[After Damon met J.J. Abrams to talk about the show, he started coming up with ideas.]

“The biggest issue with a desert island show was the audience is going to get very frustrated that the characters were not getting off the island,” [Damon] said. “My solution was, hey, let’s get off the island every week. And the way we’re going to do that is we’re going to do these flashbacks.

We’ll do one character at a time and there’s gonna be like 70 characters on the show, so we’ll go really, really slow, and each one will basically say, here’s who they were before the crash and it’ll dramatize something that’s happening on the island and it will also make the show very character-centric.”

Abrams liked the idea, and also had another: “‘There should be a hatch on this island! They spend the entire season trying to get it open. And there should be these other people on the island,'” Lindelof recalled Abrams saying. “And I’m like, ”We can call them The Others.’ And he’s like, ‘They should hear this noise out there in the jungle.’ And I’m like, ‘What’s the noise?’ And he’s like, ‘I don’t fucking know. They’re never gonna pick this thing up anyway.'”

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(More) Michael Emerson on the David Letterman Show

In honor of the “Person of Interest” premiere tonight, here’s a clip of Michael Emerson on the David Letterman show a couple of weeks ago (on September 6, 2011).

You may have already seen the first half (either on this blog or elsewhere) where Emerson talks about playing Ben on LOST — if not, it’s definitely worth watching. In the second half of the clip, Emerson tells an anecdote about his early stage-acting days, and David Letterman plays a clip from Emerson’s first screen role — in an instructional video for a prison.

Reminder: “Person of Interest” starts tonight

Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel in Person of Interest

Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel in "Person of Interest"

Person of Interest, starring Michael Emerson (the late, great Benjamin Linus) and produced by J.J. Abrams, starts tonight (Thursday, September 22, 2011) on CBS at 9 pm (8 central).

More info: Official site, Facebook fan page

[Editing to add 9/23: The pilot is now online on the official site.]

No criminal assault charges against Matthew Fox in Cleveland

Matthew Fox as Jack in the LOST pilot

Matthew Fox as Jack in the LOST pilot

A few weeks ago, a drunken Matthew Fox repeatedly punched a female bus driver after she wouldn’t let him get on her bus, which had been leased for a private party. Or, at least, that was the bus driver’s account of what happened.

Prosecutors started an investigation, but according to ABC News, they decided not to press charges.

The latest info adds bizarre new details to what was already a strange story. The bus driver has filed a civil suit against Matthew Fox for assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The bus driver’s attorney said,”If he had just sent a dozen roses or something like that, this would have been all over.”

Say what?

The attorney also said that he believes Fox is receiving preferential treatment because he is a star — and that he (the attorney) has photos of the bus driver’s injuries.

There were also witnesses at the scene. Police had detained and handcuffed Fox at the time, but then let him go without arresting him.

Matthew Fox accused of punching female bus driver

Matthew Fox Jack Shephard

Matthew Fox on a better day (as Jack in LOST 2x8)

This happened a few weeks ago, but I just stumbled across the story now.

A 29-year-old female bus driver accused Matthew Fox of repeatedly punching her outside a Cleveland nightclub at 1:30 in the morning on Sunday, August 28. Fox was in Cleveland to shoot a film.

The bus driver said that Fox attacked her when she wouldn’t let him get on her chartered bus, which was reserved for a private bachelor party. She told the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “He smelled like a liquor cabinet, like a bar. I told him, ‘Sorry, buddy, this is a private party. You have to get off my vehicle.’ I told him three times. He never said a word. He just looked at me.”

Fox, she said, started “swinging on her,” bruising her arms, leg, thighs and chest. When he didn’t stop, she punched him in the mouth. He wiped the blood from his mouth, then attacked her again.

In an interview with CNN, she said “He was swinging at my legs and, ultimately, my chest and my crotch area.”

Police on the scene detained but did not arrest him, and they let him take a cab back to his hotel.

A few days later, on August 31, prosecutors started interviewing witnesses to decide whether they would press assault charges against Fox.

And that seems to be all the news that has come out so far.

Michael Emerson, on the David Letterman show, talks about Ben

Here’s a clip of Michael Emerson (wearing his “Person of Interest” sideburns) last night on the David Letterman show.

He talks about when he first started on LOST and about how the character of Benjamin Linus will be associated with him forever, for better or for worse. He’s funny when he talks about meeting people who have, bizarrely, named their babies after Ben.

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