Posted on: Friday, July 28, 2006
'Lost' fans treated to preview of video clips
By Bill Keveney
USA Today
Get ready for Hurley the filmmaker in "The Lost Diaries," a new series of mobile-phone episodes, or "mobisodes."
In a preview shown to more than 4,000 "Lost" fans last week at Comic-Con in San Diego, Hurley (Jorge Garcia) finds a video camera, which he uses to re-cord events on the island.
Plans are for 13 two-minute mobisodes on Verizon Wireless this fall, but the early going has been slow. "It has been hard to get it off the ground, because we don't want them to be ... lame," executive producer Damon Lindelof told a filled ballroom.
Here's a little of what to look for in the upcoming season (premiering Oct. 4), which will be split into two parts to eliminate breaks in continuity caused by reruns:
The first six episodes, before a 13-week break, "will look a little like a miniseries," said executive producer Carlton Cuse. Lindelof added a tease: "Something happens midway through the year that will fry everybody's brain."
Kate (Evangeline Lilly) will get romantically involved. "Within the first six episodes, she'll be officially making her selection," Lindelof said.
Desmond (Emmy nominee Henry Ian Cusick), the man in the hatch, will be back.
The show will reveal more about the identity and history of The Others.
There will be more adventure elements, which should please Locke and the actor who plays him, Terry O'Quinn, after a season largely spent typing on the hatch computer. "Terry said, 'I want a knife in my hand again,' " said Lindelof, who said Locke would get his knife back.
The writers will get back to the off-island world, introduced in May by Desmond's girlfriend. "We're laying the seeds for a whole new element," said Cuse.
