Post by Forever Xena on May 10, 2005 11:50:28 GMT -6
Abrams Coy About Lost Finale
J.J. Abrams, co-creator of ABC's hit Lost, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming season finale will strike a balance between revealing and concealing. "That was one of the, I think, requirements of the finale, was to answer some questions and keep others out there and open," Abrams said in an interview at the Saturn Awards this week. "So, you know, like with everything, that's the ambition, and I believe we've succeeded. But ultimately the fans are the judge." Lost wraps up its first season on May 25 with a two-hour finale.
Abrams, meanwhile, said that he's recently completed a global location scout for his upcoming feature-film directorial debut, Mission: Impossible 3. "All over the world," he said. "It was like insane. But it's a trip. I mean, literally, it was a trip. ... I'm so excited. It's just a blast." As for where the film will shoot, he said, "The specifics are being ironed out, [but] it's going to be a pretty big, large scale."
Meanwhile, he said, "We're deep in prep, and we start shooting July. ... The script was rewritten. ... I'm a huge fan of literally each actor that they cast originally [including Carrie-Anne Moss and Scarlett Johansson], but to have kept the actors when we were reinventing the story would have been an odd process to sort of say, 'OK, write a script with these people in mind for characters that hadn't been written.' I mean, you know, it felt like we just needed to start over with a clean slate."
J.J. Abrams, co-creator of ABC's hit Lost, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming season finale will strike a balance between revealing and concealing. "That was one of the, I think, requirements of the finale, was to answer some questions and keep others out there and open," Abrams said in an interview at the Saturn Awards this week. "So, you know, like with everything, that's the ambition, and I believe we've succeeded. But ultimately the fans are the judge." Lost wraps up its first season on May 25 with a two-hour finale.
Abrams, meanwhile, said that he's recently completed a global location scout for his upcoming feature-film directorial debut, Mission: Impossible 3. "All over the world," he said. "It was like insane. But it's a trip. I mean, literally, it was a trip. ... I'm so excited. It's just a blast." As for where the film will shoot, he said, "The specifics are being ironed out, [but] it's going to be a pretty big, large scale."
Meanwhile, he said, "We're deep in prep, and we start shooting July. ... The script was rewritten. ... I'm a huge fan of literally each actor that they cast originally [including Carrie-Anne Moss and Scarlett Johansson], but to have kept the actors when we were reinventing the story would have been an odd process to sort of say, 'OK, write a script with these people in mind for characters that hadn't been written.' I mean, you know, it felt like we just needed to start over with a clean slate."
Source scifiwire