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“And his EYES. His FUCKING EYES.”

May 31, 2011 – 3:08 pm

Here’s a fun little article from about three years ago about the writing style of the LOST screenplays. (DISCLAIMER: If you happen to not like LOST and/or don’t give a fuck about what goes on behind the scenes, stop reading this article and peruse some of the other offers my blog provides). Anyway, apparently J.J. Abrams likes to use profanity to make a point when writing scene directions:

J. J. Abrams (the series creator) established this style in the pilot with phrases like “HE SCREAMS BLOODYFUCKINGMURDER” and “this guy is a Class-A prickfuck” (wha-?!). Since then it appears to have become part of the show’s template. Most LOST scripts read as if the writer has just hit his thumb with a hammer.

Read the article here.

I do wonder what LOST would have been like had it been bought by a network like HBO which let’s characters use actual, you know, language.

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From Lost to Fringe to Alcatraz

May 18, 2011 – 11:51 am

J.J. Abrams will always be in my good book. For one, he created Lost, which is by far one of the best shows ever conceived. And he created Fringe, which against all odds, is actually quite a solid show.
Now he’s back with something new, which, according to Fox, will go somewhere along these lines:

The show ["Alcatraz"], naturally set in and around San Francisco, follows a team of investigators who work on solving crimes committed — and here comes the classic J.J. Abrams twist — by inmates who had mysteriously vanished from Alcatraz Island’s famous prison some five decades earlier and return to continue their criminal ways.

I am mildly intrigued. Oh, and Sam Neill will be in it (adds some more spice to my mild intrigue). Click through to above article to listen to the man himself talk about the show.

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