Update February, 2010: Nope. No break for the Olympics. LOST is plowing right through.
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Mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics
A Harvard blogger writes that Carlton Cuse (Harvard Class of ’81) dropped in unexpectedly. The blogger, though too excited to breathe, did ask when the show would start again:
Mr Cuse graciously explained that the show would begin again in January then stop for the Olympics and then start back again in February.
The Olympics will run from February 12 to 28, 2010.
Here’s the first video clip from the LOST event at the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) on October 17, 2009.
In the clip, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse talk about the people who know how the show ends (mostly just the writers); how J.J. Abrams enjoys watching the show now as a fan; how they maintain secrecy; and whether the show is going to end in the place they always thought it would, or if it has evolved into something they hadn’t foreseen when the show first launched.
On that last question, Damon said that the ending they are using is the one they had decided on after Season 1.
We’ve always had a plan, but like in life, anyone who has a plan has to presuppose the plan is going to actually work. We feel that one place that we’ve been very good is that we try to be fans of the show that we’re writing. And sometimes our plans don’t work. When it’s not working, we have to figure out a way to either change the plan or amend the plan.
But that being said, for the last four or five years, pretty much between Seasons 1 and Seasons 2, we began to talk about how the show was going to end if they allowed us to end it. And right now, that’s the ending that we are doing, and I can’t imagine anything that would change our mind. We’re so committed in terms of the story-telling to achieving that end. So yes, though the route that we took to get there was wildly different from anything that we could have imagined, the destination is the same.
The latest episode of Mysteries of the Universe is about Alvar Hanso and Gerald DeGroot. DeGroot was the founder of the DHARMA Initiative, which Hanso funded through his foundation.
Much of what we know about Hanso comes from an earlier alternate reality game, The LOST Experience. Now we’ve got the new internet-only video referring back to that previous internet-based ARG, making a self-referential loop of things going on outside of the show itself.
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, 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.”
UPDATE 12/19/09: Hulu will put up all the Season 5 episodes starting on January 1, 2010. Netflix has the whole season available now, for Netflix subscribers.
UPDATE 11/18/09: Early this morning, Hulu and ABC posted Season 5 Episodes 10 (He’s Our You) through Episode 17 (the finale The Incident). They took down Episodes 1 through 9.
Until recently, they had all the episodes from Seasons 1 to 4, but only the last few episodes of Season 5. Now they’ve added the first 9 episodes of Season 5, but taken the later episodes down. I guess it must be some kind of marketing ploy, a way to get people to buy the Season 5 DVD set when it becomes available, but it’s awfully confusing.
