Episode 5.06 - 316 - Snippet Posted by DarkUFO at 1/31/2009 08:55:00 PM View Comments Labels: 316, Jack, Locke, Ms. Hawking

Here is a little snippet that I've just been sent by someone who worked on the set of 3.16.

Mrs Hawking gives something to Jack that MUST go back with Locke's body along with a special item that comes in pairs that is related to Jack's grandfather.

Source: DarkUFO

Episode 5.07 - The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham, Posted by DarkUFO at 1/31/2009 06:33:00 PM View Comments Labels: ABC, Episode Info, The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

Thanks to Zedman for the heads up on the fact that Episode 5.07 will be extended by 4 mins.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
09:00-10:06PM EST Lost
10:06-11:00PM EST Life On Mars

Lost will be extended by 4 minutes on this date and will end at 10:06 rather than 10:02. This is going to be a big episode in the storyline. Life on Mars will air with less commercials on that night.

Source: ABC

Episode 5.06 - 316 - Synopsis Posted by DarkUFO at 1/31/2009 11:31:00 AM View Comments Labels: 316

The members of Oceanic 6 discover how to get back to the island, but not all of them want to return

Source: ABC

Nestor Carbonell Interview Posted by DarkUFO at 1/31/2009 10:59:00 AM View Comments Labels: Interviews, Nestor Carbonell, Richard Alpert

Thanks to The ODI for the heads up.

Nestor Carbonell—who is again playing the mysterious, apparently ageless Richard Alpert in the fifth season of ABC's Lost—told SCI FI Wire that he understands if viewers are a little disoriented by the show's time-jumping storyline this year: So is he.

"I'm a little dizzy," Carbonell admitted in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. "Initially, it took me, in the first episode, [a moment to figure out] 'OK, when am I exactly? Where are we, and when am I?' But, no, it didn't take long. I think the viewers, after this episode [that aired Jan. 28], the show very much settles down, and you get the gist of the season, that you're going to be dealing with some elements of time travel."

Carbonell—who was initially hired in the third season for only a quick guest spot—will instead be appearing in the rest of season five and the balance of the show, which is set to wrap in 2010, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse told reporters at this month's Television Critics Association winter press tour in Universal City, Calif.

Carbonell spoke with SCI FI Wire to promote the DVD release of the slasher film Killer Movie. The following Q&A features edited excerpts from that interview. Lost airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

It must be a great deal to be so sought after by the producers that they hire you for the rest of the show.

Carbonell: Oh, it was great, and I never know what's going to happen. It just started out as an audition for a guest spot, third season. Even though I was told it was possibly recurring, they called me about six episodes after I shot that, kind of out of the blue for me, and told me they wanted me to go to the island for about five episodes. The role grew from there. You just never know, but, yes, it was great. It was great that they were so enthusiastic. I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled to be a part of it. ...

It appears that Alpert is ageless. Does it affect the way you play him?

Carbonell: I'm not playing him as if he's 100 years old or several hundred years old. It's very clear, obviously, that the guy doesn't age, but I think there is something to being a guy who's been around, a guy with some wisdom, a shrewd man who's seen a lot in his times here on this island and abroad. I hope that carries in some way into the character. ...

At the TV Critics Association press tour, some reporters asked if you wore eyeliner, which Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse denied. What do you think of this?

Carbonell: My brother sent me this link about the TCA, where you guys were at. Someone had asked about whether I was wearing eyeliner. I think Carlton came to my defense, and he said, "He's 100 percent sans makeup" or something like that. I could see why some people would think I have eyeliner on because [my eyelashes] are dark. Especially the bottom row, they're pretty dark. I've been dealing with it since I was a little kid, and so to me it's very funny when it comes up, especially at TCA. My brother told me to look online and sort of Google something about that, and my name came up as a couple things. One of them was Maybelline Man. I've been dubbed by some people as Guyliner. It's very amusing.

Have any of your Dark Knight friends called you to be their plus-one for the Oscars? [Carbonell appeared in the movie in the role of Gotham City mayor Anthony Garcia.]

Carbonell: Oh, the plus-one thing? No, not yet. I have a plus-one, so I couldn't be someone else's plus-one, but no. I haven't been anybody's plus-one yet. I'll be watching. Hey, I may be in Hawaii [where Lost shoots].

Source: SCi FI Wire

More filming updates and photos Posted by DarkUFO at 1/31/2009 10:16:00 AM View Comments Labels: Behind the Scenes, Filming Updates

Big thanks to DarkUFO reader Chris J for the following filming report and photos.

I also saw the same stuff. I took some picture as well. i saw them filming in the day time as well. They were shooting at a "apartment" type complex.

And the 1st scene I'm not sure who was involved. I THOUGHT I saw Abbadon's head, but i could be wrong. and i could hear them over the fence, mentioning money. and being surprised and stuff. they also were later shooting a scene with a little Asian boy (assuming its a young miles.) running into a hotel room, and I believe seeing a "dead body" because thats what they had kinda said. i saw them putting a dummy in there. and when the boy went in the room he acted surprised, and then i heard them saying "Charlie up" "Eko's up" and "Locke's up" between takes.
after the boy would run inside, an Asian woman and an older looking gentlemen went in there after him. there was also an older looking Asian man on set acting as well. i m not sure doing what or who it was.

Later we saw them filming at that taco shop, and miles being thrown into the van and being kidnapped. i didn't hear them say that we weren't allowed to take photos. so i took some from time to time. and it would explain why they were eyeballing me like i was killing kittens.
there were a lot of other people there, and a lot of people taking pictures.

The security guard earlier that day said he didn't want me to take photos, but we were welcome to watch. so we did.

Funny story. we actually thought the Mexican food place they were shooting at was real, so prior to them actually shooting we tried to actually order food, becuase there were some other people there. and when we tried to order none of the crew said anything, the guy at the counter actually played along, thinking that we were actually in the scene. it was quite embarrassing. and hilarious at the same time.

Heres my photos from the day.

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Source: Chris J @ DarkUFO

Episode 5x13 - New Set Report and Photos Posted by The ODI at 1/31/2009 09:03:00 AM View Comments Labels: Dharma, Filming Updates, Miles, Set Photos

With filming for Episode 5x13 underway, our good friend Roxy was able to grab some interesting pictures today.

Apparently Miles was filming a scene off-island being kidnapped by two guys and one of the men seemed to have a Swan Logo on his jacket!?

NOTE: I am assuming this is for Episode 5x13 as filming for that episode began today, but it is possible this crew is still filming for a previous episode. Once we know more we will confirm

Here is her little report and some pics:

Today they were filming off of Lehua St near Chuck E Cheese in Pearl City. It was a shot of Miles being kidnapped by two men and thrown into a van. Pics are attached :)

Is that the Swan symbol on the "bad guys" jacket???? We weren't suppose to take pictures- so I didn't get any action shots, sorry!

Roxy

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Source: Roxy@The ODI

Damon and Carlton Interview Posted by DarkUFO at 1/30/2009 06:26:00 PM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Interviews

Update: 18:45 This is an extended interview that we have previously posted.

Thanks to the ODI for the heads up. Here is another Season 5 interview with Damon and Carlton.

After Oceanic Air flight 815 tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island, its survivors were forced to find inner strength they never knew they had, in order to survive. But, they discovered that the island holds many secrets, including a mysterious smoke monster, polar bears, housing and hatches with electricity and hot & cold running water, a group of island residents known as “The Others,” and a mysterious man named Jacob. The survivors have also found signs of those who came to the island before them, including a 19th century sailing ship, called The Black Rock, a downed Beechcraft plane from a failed drug run, the remains of an ancient statue, as well as bunkers belonging to the Dharma Initiative -- a group of scientific researchers who inhabited the island in the recent past. They also encountered a freighter, stationed off the island, that some thought would lead to their rescue, but ultimately almost caused their extinction.

With only about 30 original hours left, until the final episode of the ABC television sensation Lost airs in 2010, Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Hurley (Jorge Garcia), Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Sun (Yunjin Kim) and Claire’s son, Aaron -- otherwise known as the Oceanic 6 -- have been rescued and continue to try to pick up the pieces of the lives they knew before the crash, and perpetuate the lie concocted to hide the truth of what really happened. Now, Jack and Ben (Michael Emerson) must convince all of them to return to the island, in order to save those left behind. Adding to their worries is the fact that they also have to take the body of Jeremy Bentham, aka Locke (Terry O’Quinn), with them in order to make things right with the island. Butm locating the island may prove even more difficult since Ben moved it. It’s not just a question of where the island went, but when. Back in the world and on the island, the band of friends, family, enemies and strangers must continue to work together against all odds if they want to stay alive. But, as they have discovered during their journey, nothing is what it seems, and danger and mystery loom behind every corner, with even those they thought could be trusted turning against them.

Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse spoke to MediaBlvd Magazine about the advantages of making a show, for which you already know when the ending will come.

MediaBlvd Magazine> Should viewers assume that the finale of Season 3 was the first flash-forward, or is it possible that some things before that were in the future?

Carlton Cuse> It’s all relativistic. What you will really learn from the season is that, if you look at Lost in its totality, where various pieces of the jigsaw puzzle go in, they all go in relative to each other. So, that was the first one we saw on the show, but in a timeline sense, you may see other flash-forwards that would start earlier than that.

Damon Lindelof> That’s the first event that happened after the Oceanic Six were rescued. Nothing else you’ve seen happened after that.

MediaBlvd> Will viewers be seeing a lot more of Nestor Carbonell?

Carlton> They will.

MediaBlvd> How much does the availability of the actors who play secondary characters on the show impact your storytelling? If Cane had been a hit and Nestor wasn’t available, what would that have done?


Lost Executive Producer Damon Lindelof

Damon> The good news is that, since we’ve gotten the end-date of the show, that allowed us a tremendous amount of pre-planning time. So, in the case of Nestor, he was on the show Cane last year, and we found ourselves in a position where, if that show had been successful and had been picked up beyond the 13 episodes, and he was a series regular on the show, Lost probably never would have seen Richard Alpert again. So, we had to have a Plan B, which would have been catastrophic for us, as we had weaved Richard Alpert into the show in such a significant way. So, once Cane did not get picked up, we did a deal with Nestor, which basically secured his services should we choose to pull the trigger on them until the end of Season 6, so we would have him until the end. When we have secondary characters who are essential to the plot, like Charles Widmore or Richard Alpert, the benefit of knowing the story ahead of time is that we can try to lock those actors down, and not find ourselves in a situation where we’re waiting around for them to be available. The other good news is because the show didn’t premiere until January, we had latitude. Someone might not be available for the episode that we want them for, but because we start filming in July, and go all the way through March, maybe they’re available a little later, and we can slot them into an episode at a later date.

MediaBlvd> Getting really heavy into the time travel or time hopping can be pretty fraught with perils. How are you staying away from some of those pitfalls?

Carlton> It is a variable mine field to do time travel, yet it also is incredibly exciting. What we didn’t want to do is have Season 5, the penultimate year of the show, just be a stall. We really decided that, if we were going to take risks and take some chances, as we always have in Lost, and if we make some missteps, that’s okay. As far as we’re concerned, we would rather take the risk to continue to try to do what we consider to be exciting storytelling, and the consequences are that there’s a greater degree of difficulty in that. It’s been really hard for us. We’ve worked really, really hard to try to resolve a lot of those conundrums, and we feel we’ve done a pretty good job so far. We are real excited about the episodes of this season. They are all the better for utilizing this island-skipping, time-travel element.

Damon> We’ve also become fairly masochistic in our writing, in terms of you it being fraught with peril. That’s not a bad thing. We sit around and go, “Is it fraught with peril? Yes! Let’s do it!” That’s part of the thing that keeps the show existing. The show walks this line between flirting with complete and utter catastrophe and disaster. We feel part of the reason that the audience watches the show is to see when they are totally going to reach that point of no return, where they’ve just messed things up so badly. And, you can’t get to that point unless you’re taking risks. So, the show’s been a time-travel show for the last four years. We’re just making it more apparent in the storytelling now. Hopefully, as Season 5 unfolds, you will realize that time travel has been in the DNA of the show for quite some time, but we think the audience is now prepared to go on that journey with us.

MediaBlvd> If you guys didn’t have your end-date, and that was still open, do you think you would be telling this same story?

Carlton> No. Our gratitude to Steve McPherson and Mark Pedowitz, for negotiating the end-date, knows no bounds. That completely liberated us. We didn’t know whether the mythology we had had to last two seasons or nine seasons, and that was utterly paralyzing. Now that we know exactly how many episodes we have left, it has really allowed us to plan and do this stuff with the confidence that we know exactly how much of a journey is left, and that’s been enormously liberating and really the key to the whole show for us, as storytellers.

MediaBlvd> Did you already know that you wanted to do time travel, and then set an end-point, or did setting the end-point make you go, “Okay, let’s time travel”?

Damon> We got to a point in Season 3, after we had seen the first seven episodes, and we all knew it was treading into an area of complete and utter suckiness. And, at that point, we all had a decision to make which was, are we going to have an end-date or is the show going to be cancelled in a year, or a year and a half? It simply couldn’t go on the way that it was. The story that Carlton and I would be telling, if we didn’t have an end-date, is that we wouldn’t be telling the story at all. Someone else would be up here talking about Lost because we didn’t know how to continue to do the show anymore, which is why we lobbied for the show. Basically, all these ideas, the flash-forwards being the first one that we were able to pull the trigger on, and then entering into the end-game of the story, which involved a significant amount of nonlinear time-travel storytelling, was all part of what our plan was, but we couldn’t start to do any of that stuff until we realized we were working towards an end-point.

Carlton> Because this time travel reflects a plunge towards the ending, which is irreversible, once we committed to doing that, there was only a certain amount of distance between that and where the story, in our opinion, had to end.

MediaBlvd> Do you feel like this is the season of Sawyer?

Carlton> Sawyer has a lot to do this year, and we made sure that, for people who might not be huge fans of time travel, Sawyer had his shirt off for the first episode. That was a very calculated balance act there.
Damon> It was also important that Sawyer was not a huge fan of the time travel. You will find him, over the course of the year, constantly bemoaning the fact that this is the situation that he’s in. We feel that last year, because of the Oceanic 6 storytelling, that a lot of the focus was on Kate, Jack, Hurley, Sun, Aaron and Sayid. And Sawyer, as a result of not getting off the island, did not have as much focus on him. So this year, we’ve tried to make up for lost time, as it were, and Josh Holloway has just been doing amazing work. We’re close to the end of the season now, and we’ve seen a lot of Josh’s work, and we really feel that he’s done an amazing job this year. There’s a lot to play with.

MediaBlvd> Certainly the mission of any TV show is to draw in as many new eyes as possible. Was there a point with this show where you realized that it’s so complicated and there’s so much history to it that you just have to lean more towards the loyal fans?

Damon> We’re writing the only version of the show we know how to write, which is the same version that we’ve written all along. The network and studio have been enormously gracious. Normally, you would expect a tremendous amount of pressure to do a lot of re-capping in every episode, so characters are standing around, talking about what happened last week. But, they all accept that Lost is a serialized adventure, and the audience that we have is the audience that we have. That being said, we love to hear stories of, “Oh, my God, I told my friend about Lost, and they thought that it was too weird and too impenetrable to get into, but I gave them the Season 1 DVD and they started watching, and now they’re caught up to where we are and can start watching the show.” I remember hearing about the Harry Potter series, right around the time the third book was coming out. So, as a result of kind of getting caught up in the buzz around The Prisoner of Azkaban, I went back and bought the first Harry Potter books. By the time J.K. Rowling released the seventh book, it picked up a lot of people along the way.

Carlton> We’re hoping that, as the show wraps up, people are going to want to join the journey for the last couple of seasons of the show. We’re really much more in answer mode now. As we go deeper into the season, you’re going to learn a lot about the island’s history, so we really hope that people will watch. ABC.com provides the episodes, and DVD is a great way to watch them. We really hope that, as we go into the last season of the show, a lot of viewers, who may have fallen by the wayside, will come along for the end of the ride.

Damon> It’s a perspective that’s very difficult to speak to because we don’t have it. The Academy voting now is that you have to submit a single episode of the show to get an Emmy nomination, so Carlton and I are basically like, “We’re never ever going to get nominated for an Emmy again, for exactly that reason.” But, we submitted what we thought was our strongest episode last year, which was “The Constant.” It had all the things that an Emmy episode shouldn’t have, like non-linear storytelling, time travel, and none of the characters, like Jack, Kate and Sawyer, instead focusing on Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) and Penny (Sonya Walger), but it had this huge emotional core at the end. Even though the basic conceit of the episode is a man is calling a woman, 20 years in the future, his conscious has traveled 15 years into the past, so how is that going to make sense to anyone? And, lo and behold, people who had never seen Lost before somehow understood the episode. Our guess is that maybe many of them will never watch another episode of Lost again because it’s not their cup of tea, but perhaps some of them thought it was such a cool episode, even though they didn’t get it all, that it made them curious enough about the series that they went back and explored the earlier seasons. That’s all we can hope for, at this point. If the first episode that you ever see is the premiere of Season 5, you will probably not understand a good majority of it. But, hopefully, it’s engaging enough and cool enough for you to say, “All right, let me go back and start at the beginning because I want to get on the ride.”

MediaBlvd> You meticulously orchestrate the reveals and the twists in these storylines. What is your take on the situation, when spoilers are released before the show is aired?

Carlton> We don’t like it, obviously. For instance, people who went to spoiler sites and learned that the end of Season 3 was a flash-forward were gravely disappointed in the journey of that episode. It wrecked it for them. What we really are trying to do is to respect the journey that the fans have in watching the show, and the fact that you don’t know what’s going to happen when you watch a Lost episode is a big part of what we try to do. We try to fill them with a lot of unexpected incidents. Certain sites are out there just try to use the spoilers of Lost to make money for themselves. It’s hard to have any respect for that. We know some people want to get that information, but we really honestly believe most people don’t.

MediaBlvd> How much do you think spoilers actually affect the ratings, or is it more of a concern of protecting the diehard Lost fans from knowing what’s going to happen?

Carlton> I don’t think we really think about it, in terms of ratings. We think about it in
terms of protecting our show for fans, so that the experience of the show is not solely knowing what happens. That’s our concern about spoilers.

MediaBlvd> Would you agree that the best way to watch the show is to not try to figure out what’s going to happen, since that can drive you crazy?

Carlton> The show is, ultimately, a mystery show, so we hope the viewers are engaged by the mysteries of the show. But, I do think you can drive yourself crazy. At the beginning, people tried to theorize about the show. There are two things that become more apparent, the more you watch. One is that you can’t reduce the show down to one simple thesis statement. The other is that you don’t really know enough to be able to effectively theorize about where it’s going to conclude. If you were to just go back to Season 2 and say, “What is Lost about?,” without any knowledge of the fact that we’re going to be doing flash-forwards, or time-travel this season, you just don’t have enough information. The people who like Lost the most are the people who appreciate the journey, as opposed to the destination, and that’s how we hope that viewers will approach the show.

MediaBlvd> In the first few episodes, you’ve got flaming-arrow attack, and you’ve got Sayid having this very elaborate fight scene involving a dishwasher. The production values are still on the screen, even in these tough economic times. Have you had to make any adjustments to the way you do the show now?

Damon> We obviously have had a series of meetings about the show’s budget, which is par for the course, and the studio has been enormously understanding of the show, from the word go. We all sat there, five years ago, and said, “Okay, we made an 11 million-dollar pilot. How are we going to do that, week to week?” And, the answer was that ABC Studios, Mark Pedowitz, Barry Jossen and Stephen McPherson, all acknowledged that this show was going to be more expensive than the average bear. There weren’t sets. We were shooting it in Hawaii. There were 14 series regulars. We had to do our job as responsible producers, and not get too crazy. Obviously, towards the end of every season, we like to do big, crazy finales, where we introduce new sets. Maybe we are thinking a little more viscerally, and on a character level, so that we can save the big, crazy stuff for Season 6. But, it’s a testament to the partnership that we have with the studio.

Carlton> They’ve been nothing but supportive. Honestly, they want us to make the best show that we can make, and we are given the resources necessary to do that. No one has come to us and said, “Okay, we’re in a tough economic time. You can’t make the show that you guys want to make.” And, we are incredibly grateful for that.

MediaBlvd> The big shock for a lot of people is that Episode 3 introduces audiences to Widmore, as a young man. Are we going to see more of the history of Widmore, in that era? Going back that 50 years, how much are you going to keep returning to that period of the island’s history, and the characters when they were younger?

Carlton> You will see more of Widmore. Part of what we hope to give the audience this year is some greater sense of the island’s history. People have a lot of questions, starting and stopping with, “What the hell is that four-toed statue?” But, when we introduced the four-toed statue, our idea for doing it, at that point, was really to show that the history of the island was a long one. That statue was probably built a long time ago, and people have been on that island for a long time. Part of what this season will explore, as they’re skipping through time, is that we’ll learn a lot more about what exactly has happened on the island, in the past.

MediaBlvd> Do you plan on revealing who Ben works for, or maybe revisiting Ms. Hawking?

Damon> Who Ben works for is probably Ben. But , he is obviously involved with other people and had some sort of relationship with Ms. Hawking. We don’t know how long it goes back, or what exactly the nature of that relationship is. But again, characters’ alliances, certainly those who have been on the island for a while, like Ben or Richard Alpert, is stuff that we’re going to start to cover fairly intensively, towards the latter half of this season, and much more so in the final season of the show.

MediaBlvd> Will viewers see Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Claire (Emilie de Ravin) in some form again, whether they’re dead or alive?

Carlton> You’ll definitely see Jin this season. He’s a series regular. Claire is not a series regular this year, but her story is by no means over. So, you will see her, but probably not until Season 6. We’re not saying that Jin is currently alive, after the explosion of the freighter. But, since we are telling the stories in both the past, the present and the future, you will definitely be seeing Jin’s stories. We’re just not telling you when those are occurring.

MediaBlvd> Since you’re going to do 48 episodes over three years, what are the challenges or obstacles that prevent you from delivering 22 episodes?

Damon> The big thing for us was, when we announced an end-date of the show, it became inherent that we would no longer be giving the audience any stall episodes. It wasn’t that we can’t make 22 or 25 episodes a year because we did, for the first three seasons of the show. The fact of the matter was that it was because Lost is what it is, and works the way that it does, our storytelling could be much tighter, much more efficient, and we wouldn’t have to introduce extraneous characters, or take the focus off of the parts of the story that we really cared about, as writers. We felt that it would be more centered, if we did less. We were looking at a cable model, primarily. We were looking at what The Sopranos was doing, or what Mad Men and Damages are able to do. When you’re doing less episodes, you can just be much tighter and more specific in your storytelling. That’s how we came to that negotiation.

Carlton> We agreed to do 48 hours, but they gave us the choice about how to do that. We could have done that over two seasons, and we could be finishing those now. We chose to divide it over three seasons because we wanted to be thoughtful about writing the scripts and figuring out how to tell the stories. Figuring out these time-travel stories has been enormously complicated. It’s one thing to have a big picture, but there’s still a lot of conundrums, in solving things, episode-to-episode. We calculated exactly how many episodes we thought we could do, and still tell the story well to get to an ending, and that’s what it was. And then, we said, “Give us three scenes to do that because that will allow us to keep the quality bar high,” and they agreed to that. That was really how it came about.

MediaBlvd> What is it about Lost that you think makes it so popular, and such a big hit?

Carlton> It’s different than other shows. It’s not the 10th iteration of a law show or a medical show. The thing that’s most gratifying to us is that we can make the show complicated and challenging, and still have a lot of people who watch it. There’s this knee-jerk assumption that television needs to have a lowest-common-denominator appeal, and we reject that. We couldn’t be more appreciative of the fact that people like the fact that the storytelling is complicated and that you have to sit forward to watch Lost. There aren’t a lot of shows that are in that category, and that may be part of the reason.

Source: Media BLVD

Episode 5.06 - 316 - Filming Report Confirmed Posted by DarkUFO at 1/30/2009 04:26:00 PM View Comments Labels: 316, Behind the Scenes, Filming Updates, Hurley, Jack, Kate

A little while ago we posted a filming report with the Hurley and guitar with Jack at the lagoon/waterfall, Kate passed out etc. I can now confirm that this scene will be in Episode 5.06 - 316.

Source: DarkUFO

Episode 5.04 - The Little Prince Promo Posted by DarkUFO at 1/30/2009 02:02:00 PM View Comments Labels: The Little Prince, Trailers, Video

Here is a slightly new promo from ABC, although no new scenes from what I could remember

ODI LOSTcast 27 - Interview with Jorge Garcia Posted by The ODI at 1/30/2009 11:28:00 AM View Comments Labels: Hurley, Interviews, Jorge Garcia, Podcasts, Season 5, Smoke Monster, The Lie

Hey All,
As many of you know by now, earlier this week Karen and I had an opportunity to chat with LOST Star and fan favorite Jorge Garcia (Hurley). Garcia took time from is busy filming schedule and was absolutely great and very candid. He talked to us about himself, his hobbies, his blog (Dispatches from the Island) and of course LOST.

The LOST talk covered everything from some funny/favorite moments of his character to talking about the second hour of the Season 5 premiere Episode 5x02 The Lie. We of course asked him several of the questions that you all sent in. He loved them and answered several of them, including providing us with his thoughts about time travel, the Hurley Bird, whether he thinks Hurley is "Special", Libby and much much more!!

Towards the end of the interview, I asked him about his thoughts about fansites like DarkUFO posting spoilers and we had a nice chat about that as well.

There are some minor spoilers spread through the interview and he did clarify a previous spoiler about the Smoke Monster and getting more information about it this season.

NOTE: The interview has been uploaded to iTunes, but if you can not listen via iTunes, you can use the link below to find the audio player and download link.

Enjoy!

http://the-odi.blogspot.com/2009/01/odi-lostcast-27-interview-with-jorge.html

Filming Update from Ryan Posted by DarkUFO at 1/30/2009 10:53:00 AM View Comments Labels: Behind the Scenes, Filming Updates

Thanks to Ryan for these 2 filming reports which should be for Episode 5.13

Eagle-eyed “LOST” spotter Ed Morita sends a brief report today, after finding the crew setting up on Lipoa St. behind the Pearl Kai Shopping Center in Pearlridge. They were settling in for a long stay, with notices spanning through Friday evening. Apart from watching the crew receive official “LOST” Season 5 T-shirts, he caught them carefully enclosing a blue van in thick canvas to simulate a night shot. I’m pretty sure this is the Canton-Rainier carpet van our friends Ben, Jack, Sayid and Locke have been driving around in.



More Photos here

Source: Hawaii Blog

Yesterday’s photoset from Mike, depicting an unfamiliar beach camp set built near Camp Erdman on the North Shore, prompted many fans to scour them for clues. Today, Jennie from Denver passes along her own photos from the same spot, one of which reveals a tantalizing link.



The last image in the set affords a good look at a couple of key props. First is an orange life preserver, like those used on boats, suggesting we’re looking at the aftermath of a shipwreck, not a plane crash. The second is a case or box bearing the word “BESIXDOUZE.”

A quick Google by commenter Andrea reveals a Wikipedia entry:

46610 Besixdouze (1993 TQ1) is an asteroid belonging to the asteroid belt. It was discovered by Kin Endate and Kazuo Watanabe on October 15, 1993. The name of the asteroid is a reference to The Little Prince, who lived on an asteroid named B612. The name Bésixdouze is the concatenation of B, six and douze, French for “B six twelve”. Also, 46610 is the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal number B612.

Spoilerhounds will recognize “The Little Prince” immediately as the title of the upcoming fourth episode of Season 5. And the fact that it’s a French name makes it impossible to not link the name to Danielle Rousseau’s character. Doc Arzt has confirmed that “Besixdouze” as the name of Rosseau’s boat. But it doesn’t mean that Mira Furlan will neccessarily appear. Listeners of “The Transmission” know only of the pending debut of a “young Danielle Rousseau.”

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Source: Hawaii Blog

E!Online - Rebecca Mader Interview Posted by DarkUFO at 1/29/2009 10:30:00 PM View Comments Labels: Charlotte, Interviews, Rebecca Mader, Watch with Kristin

"I'm not dead, yet!"

This is the good news that Lost's fire-haired vixen Rebecca Mader (Charlotte) has to share with fans, the morning after we saw her face-plant into her own blood on the increasingly trippy time-tripping series.

"So far, I'm good," Mader told me today over a cup of coffee in Los Angeles (she's on a break from filming the show in Hawaii). "The fans have been so cool. Everyone's like, 'Nooo, find your constant!' "

Speaking of that "constant," who could very well save Charlotte's life, could Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) be the one? Could Charles Widmore be Charlotte's father? And what request does Rebecca have for the producers regarding one Mr. Josh Holloway?

Girlfriend, you need to find a constant, stat! Do you think Mr. Faraday could be Charlotte's constant and save her life?
Maybe not. Maybe it's something more interesting. Maybe it's something more like...considering she's been to the Island before, it might be something you never thought of, you know?

From Margaret: Why do you think the time travel is affecting Charlotte and not anyone else?
I don't know. I really don't. But it's true that it is definitely affecting Charlotte more than everybody else at this point.

Right. Has she tried a humidifier? I was having terrible nosebleeds, and let me tell you, the humidifier, you sleep with that thing, and it clears it right up.
I need to get one of those for my bedroom! I'm going to tell Charlotte that—that's genius. I'll buy her one!

From Jill: Does Charlotte return Dan's feelings? Will the fact that he loves her be important in upcoming episodes?
I think Charlotte does have feelings for Daniel, but after he tells her that he loves her, and she gets emotional, I think she does that because it's all incredibly overwhelming. Yeah she's tough, yeah she jumped out of an elevator, yeah she's a badass, but at the end of the day, she's a woman. I think she came to the Island for a specific mission, and all of a sudden she's tied up and time traveling, and it's like, this is not what I signed up for.

From David: What is Charlotte's skill set? The group of people who came to the Island were chosen for their particular skills.
It hasn't been revealed to me at this point, and I don't think she has any special skills or powers. I think [her reason for coming to the Island] is more about her birthright than anything else. Though it would be cool to have a superpower. I'd like to be invisible! I could watch other people and then take information to Faraday.

From Indie1008: Could Charlotte be Charles Widmore's secret daughter?
I think there's a possibility that her parents could be interesting. I don't know that yet, but I hope so. I'd like to find out that I have really interesting parents. One of the producers joked at work, when we were shooting the season finale of season four, he was like, "Hey, Mader, next season we find out that your parents are actually Irish leprechauns." I was holding a bottle of water, and I just poured it on him, and we had a water fight. First of all, I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know? It was really funny.

Are you hoping for any other romantic connections on the show? Jack? Sawyer?
[Laughs] I think she could handle all of them! Seriously, she could be like one of those 7-Elevens, open all hours. 24/7 yo! I need to send Damon and Carlton an email about that: "Pretty cute what you've done with Jeremy, but Josh Holloway, anyone?"

Source: E!Online

Episode 5.14 - Casting Call Posted by DarkUFO at 1/29/2009 06:28:00 PM View Comments Labels: Casting, Episode Info

Here is a new casting call that we've just been sent. This episode will shoot between 10th and the 24th February 2009

[SOPHIE]
Late 30's - 40s, BRITISH. Very intelligent, skillful, prim and proper aristocrat yet someone who is tough and resourceful when necessary to protect her family. Looking for actress 5'0" to 5'4" in height for matching requirements. MUST HAVE AN ENGLISH ACCENT... ONE DAY GUEST STAR, PROBABLE RECUR.

Source: DarkUFO

The Official LOST Video Podcast: January 29th 2009 Posted by DarkUFO at 1/29/2009 06:01:00 PM View Comments Labels: Audio, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Elizabeth Mitchell, Kelvin, Podcasts, Video

Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse answer a question about Kelvin Inman; Elizabeth Mitchell talks about learning Latin

TV Guide Chat with Damon and Carlton Posted by DarkUFO at 1/29/2009 03:42:00 PM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Jughead, Video

Feel like you're sufficiently getting Lost? Here to help you each week is TVGuide.com's new "Getting Lost" video series. This latest installment finds executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof addressing three hot topics coming out of the Jan. 28 "Jughead" episode (spoiler-ish alert):

* In light of the shocking "introduction" made at the end of "Jughead," might the time-tripping castaways run into other (albeit younger) familiar faces?
* Exactly who is gun-toting tough-gal Ellie? Going against the popular consensus (which I find just a bit too pat/obvious), I run my own theory by Team Darlton.
* And speaking of mystery women, who is this comatose Theresa? And how big a role will she play in future episodes?

Source: TV Guide

Spoiler Snippets for upcoming episodes Posted by DarkUFO at 1/29/2009 03:04:00 PM View Comments Labels: Ethan, Ms. Hawking, Oceanic 6, Sawyer

One of my production sources has allowed me to reveal the following

1) 2 New People will accompany the O6 back to the Island
2) We will see another crash
3) We will see Ms. Hawking inside the Lamppost Station
4) Sawyers has to to lie. The lie hinges on everyone's safety, especially his own
5) Someone we've seen will be shown to be Ethan's Mother.

Source: ParadoxMan@DarkUFO

Latest from Kristin - More Quadrangle Details Posted by The ODI at 1/29/2009 07:34:00 AM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Jin, Kristin, Season 5, The Little Prince

Here are the latest tidbits from Kristin from E! Onlline:

WHAT LIES AHEAD

1. Jin's coming back next week. (Or so I'm told.) Yay, Daniel Dae Kim! We've missed you.
2. Keep reading below for some thoughts on the love quadrangle (pictured above), courtesy of a chat with Lost chiefs Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse...

How would you describe the Kate/Sawyer/Jack love triangle storyline this season? Is it given much prominence or are you pulling away from that a little bit?

Carlton Cuse: Not at all. I think we're always trying to find the balance between character-based stories and mythology-based stories, and I think it'd be better to categorize it as a quadrangle. Juliet is very much in the middle of that. In fact, Sawyer and Juliet were last seen together on the island, and Kate and Jack were off the island, so that's something which is interesting to us and we will explore. It very much is a quadrangle.

Damon Lindelof: What's cool about the show this year is that we're kind of picking up both stories exactly where we left off. On the island there's been this big flash of light, and Sawyer and Juliet are standing there on the beach having just seen the freighter explode. For those guys, Kate just left on the chopper five minutes ago and for Kate and Jack, they were engaged, they broke up, she went on trial, he got addicted to pills, he grew a horrible beard...

That was a bad beard.

Damon: (Laughs) Yes, but it's gone now so we'll never have to speak of it again. The fact of the matter is, it's all a matter of perspective; if you're watching the Oceanic Six show then the island scenes are flashback, if you're watching the island show then the Oceanic Six scenes are flashforward. But as far as the relationships are concerned, Sawyer and Juliet have kind of just started hanging out, and Kate and Jack have already gone through the ringer. If and when they all come together, there should be some interesting permutations in play.

Posted By: The ODI

Episode 5.04 - The Little Prince - Promo Posted by DarkUFO at 1/29/2009 03:34:00 AM View Comments Labels: The Little Prince, Trailers, Video

Thanks to The Strog here is a nice large promo for next week.