Damon Lindelof Returning to Television
2 Jun 2012
Exactly two years after Lost bowed out with one of the most talked about finales in TV history, the series’ co-creator/co-showrunner Damon Lindelof is returning to the TV island after treading the feature waters for the past two years. Lindelof is finalizing a rich three-year overall deal with Warner Bros. TV, which also is the TV home of Lindelof’s mentor-turned-frequent collaborator, Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams.
Source: Deadline
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This is awesome! I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
ReplyDeleteYep read about before,can't wait to see what he comes up with!
ReplyDeleteThose are the news I've been waiting for since May 2010!
ReplyDeleteThe Dark Tower!
ReplyDeleteIt's gonna be a MESS. Prometheus proved that he hasn't learn anything.
ReplyDeleteWhoop-de-fucking-doo. Here to ruin another TV show, Damon? Haven't you learned your lesson?
ReplyDeleteHe had as much to do with the first 5 seasons that you loved as he did with the 6th season which you hated. I wasn't best pleased with the ending yself, but I'm still a fan of Damon and look forward to whatever his next project may be.
ReplyDeletePlease tell me you're guessing! I'd hate for him to mess up such a great series.
ReplyDeleteGREAT! I'm sure he will not dissatisfy us!
ReplyDeleteMight be a good thing....
ReplyDeleteMight be a bad thing.....
Might be of no consequence.....
I'm at the point that there are very few showrunners or writers that impress me every time out.... or even a majority of the time. (Although some I cannot stand every time *cough*cough* Shonda Rhimes *cough*cough*) Sometimes actors, story and writers all come together into one lightning struck event that is awesome.... other times those same people in different projects are craptastic!
I'm less of a zealot or devotee and more of a fan I guess. Even my favorites can do wrong. XD
Quite excited for this but if he tries to do a big sci-fi show like The Event/FlashForward/Terra Nova etc etc it won't work no matter how great the writing is, that kind of show isn't doing well right now. Would like to see him tackle a different genre.
ReplyDeleteHe's a great writer when he gets to do his own thing(LOST) without giving in to the stupid masses. If he gets complete creative control, i'm sure it will be awesome.
ReplyDeleteHalf guessing:-)
ReplyDeleteIt's known that JJ was involved in talks about a film project but pulled out early on, and that Damon and Carlton's names were also attached, but they quickly rubbished such claims, with Darlton saying they would rather leave it up to someone else to ruin the franchise.But, the article above says that he is now working at WB, and they are seeming like the most likely ones to bring us the Dark Tower.At the end of the day, a DT film/TV adaptation IS going to happen. And whoever does it is not going to please everyone, so it matters not to me if Damon gets the job.
Awesome, looking forward to whatever he makes :)
ReplyDeleteI've said it before and I'll say it again: JJ Abrams puts fire to everything he touches, then he walks away while it burns. He did it with Alias and he did it with Lost. So his name attached to a (television, mind you) project doesn't really excite me anymore as it used to.
ReplyDeleteBut, this article is about Lindelof, for whom I've also developed a healthy dose of skepticism. :-) Without wanting to go into another huge debate about how Lost ended, I feel he jerks around fans a little too much, not necessarily in his television work, but definitely in the interviews he gives surrounding that work.
Ruin what, exactly?
ReplyDeleteHe was in LOST from the Pilot, he wrote the season 1, season 2,3,4,5 and 6. He didn't "ruin" anything, because he created the whole thing.
exactly how can somebody ruin something that he created
ReplyDeleteyea jj abrams is like the next jerry bruckheimer
ReplyDeleteI wish he would do it! --But he said he wouldn't write "wackadoo mythology" again. And well Dark Tower is pretty expansive...
ReplyDelete(But we''ll see about that!)
He's probably sick of it, but I would be game if he would be on board with another Star Trek TV series after their films are done...
As a Lost fan I am very excited about this. But then again it depends on what the plot will be and who is cast.
ReplyDeletePersonally I prefer if JJ Abrams is not involved.
I agree I usually feel the same way. Obviously I love BR and feel they continue to pump interesting ideas into their TV series, and as production company, I feel they have a deeper influence compared to other companies over stylization, casting, and story telling methods, but on the whole outside of that, I tend not to see others repeat certain successes. That besides genre, I do think a lot of it hinges on the whole package. I never could get into 6 Feet Under, but I love True Blood (Alan Ball), and I love Dexter (Michael C. Hall).
ReplyDeleteSo I agree that a lot of the time it is sort of a lucky collaboration!
I disagree a little. I think to some degree that's true, but if you look at HOW MUCH each show references other BR works (and simultamiously pop culture/ancient culture/philosophy/science), and look at the way their stories/mythology unfolds, you see how much influence he actually has, despite that he isn't in the office with them all everyday. He becomes the over seer, but his company clearly has a specific way in which shows are produced and stories writen. We see things like this in Film all the time (Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino), but to see it in several TV series is actually astounding. Each work plays a little more on certain human issues/philosophical concepts that another may have only began to touch on.
ReplyDeleteIMO their works are like one work in continuous progress. A tapestry in a tapestry...
Well said....
ReplyDeleteThat would be interesting. Especially if the show is based on the alternative canon of the new films.
ReplyDeleteYa!! XD
ReplyDeleteI also would like a series based on the Department of Temporal Investigations (the book series so far has some interesting ideas), or even New Frontier...
Yeah, I agree. The Event/FF etc are my favourite kinds of show. I like the mysteries, I like questions, I like being able to come up with my own theories and share them with other fans. But the risk of those shows is that they steadily lose viewers because people don't like feeling that they're not allowed to miss an episode.
ReplyDeleteI love creating theories as well, I love complex crazy shows but yeah so many people don't even give them a chance because they fear they won't get answers and so they are pretty much cancelled from the start.
ReplyDeleteYESSS! So happy, can't wait for whatever he might come up with!
ReplyDeleteAgreed. After the mess he made of Lost to the point it's virtually un-rewatchable, I hoped he'd crawl in a cave and never be heard from again.
ReplyDeleteBy making it virtually impossible to rewatch since you know there will never be any logical answers to the mysteries that were developed.
ReplyDelete"with one of the most talked about finales in TV history" well, that was a very diplomatic way to put it.
ReplyDeleteThe Seinfeld finale was also "one of the most talked about finales in TV history" but that's not exactly great, is it?
i pretty much liked the lost finale
ReplyDeletewhat was wrong with it ?
Dogen, Lennon, and the hindi parts of the Temple, along with Ajira, and some other minor Asian characters added a very nice motif of the Eastern Philosophy angle = Reincarnation.
ReplyDeleteHeart of the Island is an Ancient Egypt philosophy/concept in which the "heart" is collective conscience. All of the water on the Island was connected to THOTI so there for those waters, including the Temple, and the smoke monster represent "preserved memory" and/or life extension. ---If you look to Fringe's concept of "white tulips" you may come to realize that your answers may not be simply answered in things like "effect" and "ability", because it's possible that our group to "move on" is not the first group to move on....therefor EVERYONE is filling in a "specific" role of all those that came before them, including other versions of themselves. ==In Eastern Philosophy (Brahma is actually where Dharma derives, before it becomes both a Bhuddist and Hindi concept) Everyone in the universe is working ("we have work to do") through a series of actions to "better ourselves" or "save ourselves"...
Have you ever heard the expression that everything that ever existed "imagined" itself into exist? --It's an idea that conscienceness on it's on plane i
Me too
ReplyDeleteI love Damon Lindelof, say what you want about the ending of LOST, lord knows I have but it was an amazing show it kept you captivated for like 6 years and you're still talking about the finale. The man can write.
ReplyDeleteBy the way my thoughts on the finale are: It would have been perfect if the flash-sideways was a parallel universe and they found a way to link them somehow in the finale.
PS. you can't explain everything about the island, the egyptians, mother whatever no matter how far back you go you will still have more questions about it.
People got confused. They were looking for answers/closure
ReplyDeleteIMO it us a type of parallel universe, but Ethereal as apposed to Corporeal...and it was the transition between Life and Rebirth. --When they go back to the 1970's they have potential to make an alternate time line from that point on. IMO that is what they did, and the FS showed us that this specific group of people finally will experience a life with out direct contact with the Island. (hence it was "submerged" in the FS = innate plane/collective conscience) and a life was created for saving the Island (David), but they couldn't actually get to the next life they were glimpsing/experiencing until they remembered the past and moved onto that new future together as a group.
ReplyDeleteThat's why people could have visions, Walt could appear (be astral projected by smokey) older before he was, and people had unknown origins of abilities, because the course correction was so MASSIVE, as it was relying on the knowledge of everything that has ever happened in all the histories of the Island.
gotta agree with that... :(
ReplyDeleteI know LOST did not end well and the fans who were expecting the mysteries to be resolved were left disappointed.. (now please don't comment saying everything was resolved or asking me which mysteries were not solved, I have talked about it enough!) But I am exited to see what Damon comes up with for TV next. There were 2 things about his return that is good. First, he is open to doing cable shows, because we know the fate of most new serial dramas on networks. Second, he said he wont do another show like LOST. I think he has realized the problems with building up a mythology so much can lead to a very hard fall.
ReplyDeleteI doubt anyone will read this, but I can back because Cineblend ended up speculating that Mr. Lindelof might end up with Matt Reeves for the new Twilight Zone Movie, and/or that it could set up a rebooted series. (As the article stated J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves did have a little film nior twilight zone fun with Felicity, but I would be pretty exciting if the film would be good and could set up a series some how...
ReplyDeleteArticle: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Twilight-Zone-Reboot-Getting-Script-Rewrites-31298.html