A movie adaptation of the brilliant TV series, Lost, has been subtly mentioned from time-to-time, but with no real guarantee whether it will actually happen or not. To add a giant slice of interesting to all of those subtle mentions, series co-creator and writer Damon Lindelof has shared a little information on the prospective film.
Lindelof explains that there could always be a movie, whether it is a few years down the road, or if it’s a reboot twenty years down the road. But the bomb came when he also admitted that all of the characters that we know, love, and even hate from the show — they won’t be in the movie.
Here’s the quote, transcribed by Latino Review from the video interview that can be seen at the bottom of this story!
At the end of Season 6, their story – all their character resolutions will happen. The characters that we love and cared about, and invested in, their story is, for all intents and purposes, over.
Click over to see the interview video.
So what does this mean? It means that the people making this show are doing it the right way. All we’ve ever wanted is to know the answers to the mysteries of the island, and what the destinies of all of these characters is. Instead of taking us for a six-season ride and then making us wait for a movie, they’re ensuring that everything will be wrapped in the prettiest of bows by the end of next season. It also means that this means that there could be more stories down the road that take place on the main character of the show: the island itself.
The one thing that jumps to mind that feels like we might never know the answers to that may just end up in this movie, is that damn statue. I really hope not, because I’m dying for the show to finally stop teasing it and integrate its story into the show, but with only one final season left, who knows if there’s time.
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[Source: THR]
Yup. I’m with Damon on that. It’s about the characters and their interactions with each other and the Island. Any future movie (which will inevitably have people angry with it (I could be in that camp, who knows)) can be it’s own seperate thing and I’d be fine with it, knowing that I own the whole series and can make the call on what’s canon and what’s not, which to my knowledge, the only thing that IS canon to me is the show itself and the post-season 3 mobi-sodes.
Comment by Slipstream — May 12, 2009 @ 4:03 pm
or this means the shows gonna have a lame ass they never landed on the island ending.
ugh
and why are people so obsessed over that friggin statue.
and i’d assume that jacob or alpert would have to be in the movie, unless this thing has a super everyone dies ending.
Comment by mo — May 12, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
People are obsessed with it because it’s a giant statue of a dude-thing with four toes…how could you possibly not be obsessed with it?
That’s not something you show just to show. That’s not nothing on an island like that one.
That’s something that has a potentially amazing story to it, and we want to know what it is.
Comment by The Movie God — May 13, 2009 @ 12:18 am
I have a feeling that we’re going to get some statue goodness as early as… tonight. And no, I don’t search for spoilers.
Comment by Slipstream — May 13, 2009 @ 1:15 pm