Parts 1 and 2 - How did you get an agent? and First sales and going into TV.
If you look up Jeff Lieber's credits, it will probably leap out at you that he's credited as a co-creator of Lost. However, not only did Jeff never write for the series, he never worked with fellow co-creators J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof. So what was Jeff's role in the genesis of the series? What did his version of the Lost pilot contain? Click on the video for the answers.
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Part 4 - The process of developing a show
Part 5 - Cable TV vs. Network TV
Part 6 - The Bitter Questions
Showing posts with label Damon Lindelof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Damon Lindelof. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
I got quoted in the LA Times article on Damon Lindelof!
Yesterday, Twitter was all aflutter that Lost creator Damon Lindelof abruptly shut down his twitter account. Over the past several years, Lindelof had been the target of a lot of angry fans who were dissatisfied with the finale of Lost, and to a lesser extent, his work on Prometheus. Though he often made self-deprecating jokes about letting the fans down, there was always the sense that some of the jabs hurt him.
The incredibly satisfying finale of Breaking Bad opened the floodgates again. If you followed Damon on Twitter, you saw him retweet dozens of messages he got that night, most of them carrying the sentiment of "See? That's how you end a show! I'm still mad about Lost three years later!" Lindelof later wrote about how the Breaking Bad finale helped him reach some semblance of closure with his own feelings about Lost's ending. You can read that piece here.
(I have no dog in this Lost fight, by the way. I stopped watching midway through the third season. From what I've seen of Lindelof, he seems like a pretty likeable dude, so I don't have any beef with him personally either. I think he takes a lot of undeserved shit, actually.)
So when Lindelof shut down his twitter with the message "After much thought and deliberation, I've decided t-,"I saw an opportunity to have a little fun. Channeling the tone of Lindelof's haters, I tweeted, "THAT'S how @DamonLindelof ends his run on Twitter? Gotta say, I'm underwhelmed and angry. I bet he didn't have that planned from the start."
And it, um, ended up being quoted in the LA Times.
I hope the ironic tone comes across in print and somewhat divorced from its original context. It's incredibly cool to be quoted in the paper, but I really hope no one gets the impression that I'm a legit "hater."
The incredibly satisfying finale of Breaking Bad opened the floodgates again. If you followed Damon on Twitter, you saw him retweet dozens of messages he got that night, most of them carrying the sentiment of "See? That's how you end a show! I'm still mad about Lost three years later!" Lindelof later wrote about how the Breaking Bad finale helped him reach some semblance of closure with his own feelings about Lost's ending. You can read that piece here.
(I have no dog in this Lost fight, by the way. I stopped watching midway through the third season. From what I've seen of Lindelof, he seems like a pretty likeable dude, so I don't have any beef with him personally either. I think he takes a lot of undeserved shit, actually.)
So when Lindelof shut down his twitter with the message "After much thought and deliberation, I've decided t-,"I saw an opportunity to have a little fun. Channeling the tone of Lindelof's haters, I tweeted, "THAT'S how @DamonLindelof ends his run on Twitter? Gotta say, I'm underwhelmed and angry. I bet he didn't have that planned from the start."
And it, um, ended up being quoted in the LA Times.
I hope the ironic tone comes across in print and somewhat divorced from its original context. It's incredibly cool to be quoted in the paper, but I really hope no one gets the impression that I'm a legit "hater."
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