Category Archives: Writers, producers, directors, etc.

Carlton Cuse doing pilot for Amazon

Posted on November 12, 2014 | Leave a comment

Damon Lindelof Carlton Cuse and a Polar Bear painting on velvet

Carlton Cuse, with Damon Lindelof and a polar bear in 2009

Amazon, which hopes to increase its audience for original series, will be debuting seven new pilots early in 2015. One will be co-written by LOST’s own Carlton Cuse.

Called “Point of Honor,” the pilot is set in Virginia at the start of the Civil War and focuses on a family that makes the unusual decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves.

Carlton will be a co-writer along with Randall Wallace, and a co-producer along with Barry Jossen. Wallace will direct.

Viewers votes will help determine which shows will live on after their pilots and which will die an early death. The shows will be free to subscribers of Amazon Prime.

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New J.J. Abrams show “Believe” premiering Monday, March 10, 2014

Posted on March 4, 2014 | 1 comment

Believe screenshot from promo

There are some heavyweights behind the scenes of Believe. J.J. Abrams is one of the show’s executive producers. Alfonso Cuaron, who just won the Oscar for Best Director for the movie Gravity, is a co-creator (along with Mark Friedman, who has since left the show).

The premiere is on Monday, March 10, at 10 p.m. The second episode will be on Sunday, March 16, at 9 p.m., which will be the Believe‘s regular timeslot.

Here’s a promo with some behind-the-scenes footage, including comments from Abrams and Cuaron:

And here’s a promo that lays out the show’s premise:

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LOST 10th Anniversay Reunion

Posted on March 4, 2014 | Leave a comment

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PaleyFest in Los Angeles will be hosting a cast reunion for the 10th Anniversary of LOST on Sunday, March 16, 2014. (That’s the 10th anniversary from the year the show started — it hasn’t been that long since it finished — though it has been almost four years, which is hard to believe — time flies.)

Scheduled to appear: Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Emilie de Ravin (Claire), Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Nestor Carbonell (Alpert), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Malcolm David Kelley (Waaaaaaaaaalt), executive producer Carlton Cuse, and more.

Carlton talked about the show in an interview posted yesterday on Vulture. He’s still defensive about fan criticism of the ending. “We did the version that we wanted to,” he said. “Damon and I still stand by it. There was no answering-a-million-questions version of the end that wouldn’t have been didactic and awful.”

Whatever your opinion of the ending, the reunion should be an exciting event. For those of us unable to make it to L.A., there were hopefully be video posted on YouTube after the event is over.

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Fans STILL arguing about LOST’s ending

Posted on February 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

A couple of days ago, Damon Lindelof tweeted “It all happened. Dogs are great.” in response to someone who asked “yo can i get an explanation to the end of lost?”

Although this is just a flip answer that doesn’t say anything (we’ve known since the night the finale aired that all the Island stuff really did happen), the tweet gave fans another chance to express some of their still pent-up angst or delight about LOST’s final episode, which will probably go down in history as the most controversial ending to a television series ever. A discussion of Damon’s tweet on the Huffington Post has 588 comments so far, with probably many more to come.

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Review of “Alcatraz” premiere (from a LOST fan perspective)

Posted on January 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) meets Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia) in the first episode of "Alcatraz"

The photography in Alcatraz was beautiful, moody, and dark — but it was Jorge Garcia who brought the most life to the show.

When Jorge played Hurley in LOST, he looked so natural that it seemed he wasn’t even acting. But, of course, he was. Being able to appear that natural in the role was a great gift. He’s brought that same gift to his Alcatraz role of Diego Soto — comic book fan, PhD expert on Alcatraz history, and unlikely recruit in a crime-fighting partnership with girl detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones). Continue reading →

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J.J. Abrams says “Alcatraz” is not LOST

Posted on January 11, 2012 | Leave a comment

Jorge Garcia and J.J. Abrams at the 2012 Television Critics Association

A few days ago, in a talk at the 2012 TCA (Television Critics Association), J.J. Abrams said that Alcatraz would not be like LOST. Alcatraz, he said, would have storylines that were resolved every week, and questions would be answered quickly.

The TV critics in the room had their doubts about that, according to a critic who was there.

Alcatraz starts on Monday, January 16, at 8 p.m. (7 central) on FOX.

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Films with LOST alumni Black Friday week sale

Posted on November 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Amazon is having a big Black Friday week sale that is going on all week, starting today, Monday, November 21, 2011. I looked through the virtual bins, and found several items featuring LOST actors that could make great gifts (or to give to yourself). Continue reading →