Carlton Cuse tweeted that the special guests have been confirmed:
Michael Emerson (Ben), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Yunjin Kim (Sun), and Terry O’Quinn (Locke) will all be joining Darlton (Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse) in a panel at the Hawaii International Film Festival on Saturday, October 17.
That should be quite a show! I’m looking forward to seeing the video on YouTube (hopefully, some nice person will post it).
Daniel Dae Kim looking at an ink blot
Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin on LOST, stars in this trailer for the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF), playing a writer who finds inspiration in an ink blot:
The Festival will have a special celebration of LOST on October 17, 2009, with master-class seminars during the day with producers Jean Higgens and Jack Bender, and with some of the show’s production, prop, and costume designers. In the evening, there will be a panel discussion featuring Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse with “special guest appearances from cast and crew members.”
When in doubt, go with the magic turtle.
The Writers Of LOST – Parody – More free videos are here
I love this. So funny!
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Carlton Cuse (at an earlier event)
In this segment of the LOST panel at Bumbershoot (the Seattle arts festival named after an old slang term for umbrella), producer/writers Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis, and Adam Horowitz talked about what it’s been like to write the show.
Host Jeff Jensen asked them what was the most difficult thing to write, and they all agreed that it was time travel. They had to put detailed charts and graphs on the writers’ room walls so that they could keep track of where they were.
Carlton said, “Fortunately, Damon really loves time travel.” They spent, he said, a great deal of time trying to figure out the mechanics of it. Maintaining their concept of non-paradoxical time travel was tricky, and when they opened a time loop, they had to put a lot of thought into making sure they could figure out a way to close it.
The panelists then talked about how getting an end date changed what they were able to do with the show.
They also said some fascinating things about how they write. It’s a collaborative process. Nine of them sit around a conference room table. They start writing each episode by deciding which character it’s going to be about. Each episode has three stories — an Island story, an off-Island story (which may be a flashback or a flashforward — or, Carlton said, “whatever that might possibly be in Season 6” … hmmm), and a little C-story. Then they fit it all into a six-act structure.
They wrote the show like fans of the show. “What would be cool?” they asked themselves. “Wouldn’t it be cool if we actually showed the statue?” And so they did.
Video by Alextsway
Damon and Carlton may not be conjoined twins after all!
Last week, three LOST executive producers gave a talk at Bumbershoot, a large annual music and arts festival in Seattle. Jeff Jensen, of Entertainment Weekly, hosted the talk with producer/writers Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. (Was this the first time Carlton Cuse was ever seen in public without Damon Lindelof by his side? Perhaps they are not conjoined twins after all.)
A fan shot a 3-part 2-part video. In this first part, you can’t see much, but you can hear what they are saying. The LOST folks answered questions such as: Why isn’t there more sex? Why does Jack remind us of that annoying guy we used to date, who always had to get up early the next morning to train for a triathlon? In a battle with Sawyer’s hair and Jin’s abs, who would prevail?
They also showed the 3 alternate-reality videos that they had shown at Comic-Con. Carlton said there were “some definite clues that are embedded” in them. (The videos are the Oceanic Airways ad, Hurley’s ad for Mr. Cluck’s, and Kate on “America’s Most Wanted”.)
Video by Alextsway
Picture of Chang & Eng Bunker, the famous “Siamese twins,” is a watercolor painting on ivory, done in the 1830s. From Wikipedia.
Mr. Eko praying over Ana Lucia's body
UPDATE 3/4/10: At last week’s PaleyFest, Darlton said Mr. Eko was not coming back, according to an article in TV Guide. (Warning: the TV Guide article is FULL of spoilers.)
UPDATE 5/28/10 Kristin dos Santos at E! Online is reporting that unnamed “ABC and Lost insiders” told her that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was offered a spot in the finale, but he turned it down because it wasn’t enough money — and that he had asked for five times as much as what was offered.
original post below:
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Season 6 seems to be shaping up to be a big reunion for formerly dead characters.
One character I never thought we’d see again, though, is Mr. Eko. Word was that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who played Mr. Eko, had quit the show, forcing the producers to ditch the storyline they had planned and to kill off the character prematurely.
Yet in a recent video interview with the British magazine site Empire, Akinnuoye-Agbaje was coy. He didn’t say he was coming back, but he definitely wasn’t ruling it out:
Q: So what are you working on next. There’s rumors of LOST …
AAA: Yeah, I just shot a guest episode with Tony Shalhoub from Monk, and yes, there are rumors circulating about LOST. I don’t know where they are coming from, but they are building up, yes. You know, with that show anything can happen, and the fans really liked Mr. Eko. It might be nice to see him wield the stick one more time.
Back in November 2006, the day after Mr. Eko died on the show, USA Today reported that “Akinnuoye-Agbaje asked to be written off the series. After losing both parents last year, he wanted to return to his London home and work on a film he’ll direct.”
Two years later, at the 2008 Screenwriting Expo, Damon Lindelof gave a slightly different version of the story, saying that Akinnuoye-Agbaje had not liked living in Hawaii:
Discussing how Mr. Eko became a much shorter-lived character than originally intended, Lindelof noted how it stemmed from actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who did not like living in Hawaii. Lindelof said, ” Our Mr. Eko plans very quickly derailed. Adawele’s unhappiness was almost instantaneous. On his second episode, he was expressing extreme dissatisfaction.” This led to them quickly changing Mr. Eko’s storyline to one that would only last one season. Asked what might have happened with Eko had he been the long term character he was going to be, Lindelof answered, “Originally he was going to be someone who challenged Locke for the spiritual leadership of the castaways.”
Whatever happened back then, Adewale seems interested in coming back to the show now. If we are lucky, all will be forgiven, he will be invited back, and perhaps we will finally find out how his original story would have ended.
Picture of Mr. Eko is a promotional still (c) ABC, via Lostpedia
LOST Comic-Con Panel 2009
Here’s the video of the whole thing (except for the clips):
Video by Totsie14
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