Writing a Lost episode
2 years, 2 months ago by AndreasRead more: Article, Crew, Interview
There is a really interesting article over at post-gazette.com about how a Lost episode is written.
Former Lost writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach explains the writing process behind the Lost season 1 episode “All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues”. We learn among other things that…
This is the episode where Locke and Boone first discover the hatch, but in Grillo-Marxuach’s first outline it wasn’t Boone who accompanied Locke, it was two guest characters made up from whole cloth, Arthur and Sullivan. Instead those characters were scrapped for a series regular, Boone, and in so doing, Grillo-Marxuach said it became the genesis for killing Boone later in the season.
If you are interested in how a show like Lost is created, don’t miss this article!
Read the article at Post-Gazette.com
Comment 1, posted 2 years, 2 months ago - Quote and reply
Inspirational quote:
Grillo-Marxuach got into writing for TV after he was plucked from a job at Kinko’s in Los Angeles for an executive training program at NBC. That helped him learn the language of TV, meet the right people, network with them and helped pave his way into the writing position he’d wanted from the outset.
Comment 2, posted 2 years, 2 months ago - Quote and reply
I’m gonna get a job at Kinko’s now!
Comment 3, posted 2 years, 2 months ago - Quote and reply
haha. Who would take on the burden of running the site though? ;)
Comment 4, posted 2 years, 2 months ago - Quote and reply
Nice article. I also liked the one (on the same page) about Heroes and how Tim Kring admits Heroes could not have happened without Lost.
I know that at one point Kring and Damon and Carlton had discussed having the shows share some mythology. Of course, they can’t now because they are on different networks. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see subtle inside-joke-like references going back and forth.
– Mike
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