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They have something else. Don’t remember exactly. A movie about a comics or book, not just Star Trek.
Ah not anymore:
It was believed that after Lost concludes in 2010, he and Carlton Cuse would write and produce a film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, but in a recent interview that was debunked, because as they say, The Dark Tower;; is their favorite book, and they don’t want to mess it up by committing themselves for another seven years after just finishing Lost.
Well, yeah - Dark Tower got nixed, but I don’t think Cowboys and Aliens has been actually filmed yet, and that’s a comic, so you’re still right. I believe he’s entirely done writing that script and Favreau just needs to get around to filming it, but it is another project with Damon’s name on it.
That’s disappointing. If anyone could have done Dark Tower right, it would have been those guys. It would need to be a TV series or movie franchise, though.
It has been both. Originally, the idea was that it would be a series for HBO. That didn’t work out. After that was an initial movie idea (no way you get seven genre films greenlit, particularly for a fantasy property). If anything’s going to happen ever at this point, I’m guessing they’re going to have to launch off of the comics.
It’s not the first time. After Mr. Eko dies, Locke picks up his stick and the writing at the top tells him where they need to go, or so he says (and he’s always right, so of course it’s true). He and some others go off on a trek and when asked what they’re doing, I believe it’s Sayid that says, incredibly sarcastically, “Locke read something on this stick that tells us where to go so we’re following him.” Paraphrasing, but it was like the characters were acknowledging how retarded the explanation was. The only thing that was missing was someone looking directly at the camera and saying it.
<samrockwell> Did you guys ever WATCH the show? </samrockwell>
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Worst. Priest. Ever.
Poor BatManuel. That was just wrong.
Great ep. Nestor Carbonell is an amazing actor. Lost doesn’t make me tear up very often, but… wow.
I agree. Holy cow was that awesome.
Awesome. Well we certainly know… quite a bit now.
— Alan
Episodes like that make the entire show. Sheesh, that was riveting.
I think we knew the Black Rock origin, but I had hoped based on the Richardus references that Richard was actually quite older than that…
And so much with the no flashbacks this season rule.
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Best Lost episode EVAR. I loved every second of it. I was terrified they were going to go all “Ghost” for a second and have Hurly kiss Richard…shudder.
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Agreed, I thought Richard was from the Middle Ages at least, not 1867.
I thought that too, and immediately followed it up with “then again, much older than 200 years and he’d have probably lost in mind”
I can’t even fathom such an existence. shudder
I didn’t think that, but I thought the big guy was at least gonna give Richard a hug after the ghost left. I know I wanted to. :)
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I flipping love this show.
I found the retcon on how the Black Rock crashed to be very distracting.
We first see Jacob and PreUnLocke on the beach, last season, in the morning, and we see the Black Rock offshore in calm seas.
And this season we are expected to accept that the Black Rock hung around within eyesight of the statue without noticing it in the day, until a huge storm at night.
Very, very sloppy. I wasn’t real happy with anything else presented in the episode either. Very obviously, Carbonell could have carried the ep brilliantly even if the script consisted of random consonants, but I generally expect Lost to pay more attention to details. I could go on for pages with more nitpicking.
I guess my expectations may have been too high for this episode. Because I honestly thought it sucked.
What indication was there that the ship seen last season was the Black Rock? I don’t remember that. I thought it was just one ship of many Jacob summoned to the island.
Thank you for sparing us.
Well, who’s to say the Black Rock was the ship that Jacob and Smokey saw? You’re just assuming that cause it’s a ship. Except they’ve been doing this for a long time, and Jacob keeps bringing people there. It’s impossible to say for certain which ship that was.
In any event, the prisoners didn’t see the statue until the storm, but that’s not to say the crew didn’t see it. Since the ship was caught inside the island’s zone of control, it couldn’t leave, and would have eventually crashed or they would have gone ashore at some point anyway.
— Alan
