Lost's Abrams More Involved
Damon Lindelof, executive producer of ABC's hit SF series Lost, told SCI FI Wire that his co-creator, J.J. Abrams, is back and involved with the show after taking most of last season off to direct Mission: Impossible III. "J.J.'s been pretty involved coming out of the gate," Lindelof said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego last week. "Obviously he was still doing publicity for Mission as we started on breaking out the sort of season-long arcs, but he and I are writing the season premiere together, and he has plans to direct the seventh episode of the show, which would ... be the sort of season premiere for the second block of episodes."
As of last month, Abrams was on vacation in Maine, but he will return soon to help put together the third season of Lost, which will air in two uninterrupted blocks of episodes: six in the fall and the balance starting in the winter.
"[He] is sort of very ... much in the loop of everything that ... [executive producer] Carlton [Cuse] and I and the other writers are doing in the room," Lindelof said. "And, as I said, we're writing the premiere together, sending scenes back and forth and all that, and that's been fun."
As for season three, Lindelof said: "The rule of thumb that you'll start to see establish itself is that the show is still about our people. It's still about our guys, and ... we don't want to start handing off the show to strangers until the show is ready for that. So we're going to be very much with Kate [Evangeline Lilly], Jack [Matthew Fox] and Sawyer [Josh Holloway], and they're having their experience sort of out of the gate. ... Point of view is a big part of Lost. We tried to do the same thing with the tail section people, which is you didn't really learn their story until 'The Other 48 Days,' which was seven episodes in [the second season]. Otherwise, they were just ... people interacting with Sawyer and Michael [Harold Perrineau] and Jin [Daniel Dae Kim]. So the others have a much more involved history than just having crash-landed on the other side of the island for a couple years. So we're going to [take] baby steps, [which,] I think, is the way to go." Lost returns Oct. 4 and will air Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
SCI FI Wire by Patrick Lee 8/1/06
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