You have to watch this fan-made video shot on the LOST set

It’s eerie and thrilling watching this, seeing the old sets again — the Dharma village, the temple, the Orchid station, the jungle.

At least I think they are the real sets. They seem too realistic to be computer-generated or to have been recreated. But if they are real, I have no idea how the fans got in to film there.

While seeing the old places was thrilling, the storyline, at first, didn’t seem too promising. Then, at the end, the character says something that was so good, so right, it gave me a moment of chills. (At last! A LOST ending that satisfies!)

You really have to watch this all the way through.

By Corey Vidal via sl-LOST — thanks!

Belated LOST holiday greetings

I just saw these two cleverly-made LOST holiday-themed videos. Enjoy!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, by Jbauerfan08:

Bah Humbug by Sophie:

LOST’s alternate ending

By MarkTwain316, via @f—yeahlost

Happy New Year, everyone!

Doc Jensen was in the church when the Losties walked into the light

Jeff “Doc” Jensen is back! He wrote a new LOST column yesterday which revealed that he was actually sitting in a pew in the church when the final scene of LOST was being filmed:

I was in the church when Christian Shephard (John Terry) threw open the doors and the entire castaway soul cluster … vanished into the afterlife in a flood of white light. In EW’s Best of 2010 issue, on sale now, I share a little more about the visit, including the misdirection that was employed to fool the spoiler stalkers lurking outside the church and how Fox and Terry were the only actors that knew the big secret of the Sideways world during the filming of the sequence.

Jensen has also been rethinking his original conclusions about the meaning of the finale:

I declared that the Sideways world was a legit spiritual purgatory in my first responses to the finale. With the passage of time, I now see other possibilities, and more, I wonder if I missed some of the points Lost was trying to make about religion, spirituality, and the afterlife by becoming so locked into purgatory theory. More to come in the next week or so; my long-promised, long-delayed last Lost column will post before the end of the year.

The column was posted only a few hours ago, and already has a ton of comments. Read it here: Revisiting our visit to the set of the ‘Lost’ finale

Trailer for “Real Steel” with Evangeline Lilly

Robot in boxing ring from Real Steel trailer

Robot in boxing ring, from "Real Steel" trailer

“Real Steel,” which is in post-production and will be released sometime in 2011, is about robots who fight each other in the boxing ring. It doesn’t look like my cup of tea, even though it has several things going for it: it stars Hugh Jackman and features Evangeline Lilly (Kate) in an as-yet unnamed role; it has Steven Spielberg as a producer; and it is based on a story which was originally adapted to be a Twilight Zone episode.

According to Wikipedia’s synopsis, “Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring.” Charlie ekes out a living making low-end robots from scrap metal, but when he “hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender… Against all odds, [they] get one last shot at a comeback” in the “brutal, no-holds-barred arena.”

You can see a couple of very quick glimpses of Evangeline in the trailer:

Michael Emerson to speak on “The Philosphy of LOST”

Michael Emerson with Emmy, 2009

Michael Emerson with Emmy in 2009

If you’re in the Palo Alto area in January, you can hear Michael Emerson speaking at Stanford on “The Philosophy of LOST.”

It’s going to be on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 6:00 pm. on the Stanford campus, as part of a film and philosophy conference.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Official Stanford announcement. Via Meet Michael Emerson

Jorge Garcia, J.J. Abrams, an island, a mystery, and a tv show

Alcatraz at dawn

Alcatraz at dawn

Deadline Hollywood reported that Jorge Garcia (Hurley) will star in Alcatraz, a FOX drama about a group of Alcatraz prisoners and guards who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago and show up in the present day.

Jorge, who was the first actor cast for the show, will play the “hippy geek” Dr. Diego Soto, a world-class authority on Alcatraz. J.J. Abrams is co-executive producer. Filming will begin in January in San Francisco and Vancouver.

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Photo of Alcatraz by Ben Peoples, via Wikimedia

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