Is it time to return to that infamous island?
It’s been almost 10 years since hit TV show ‘Lost’ graced our screens and delighted viewers with its final episode in May 2010, and now we’re left wondering if the passengers of Flight 815 will ever head back to The Island. With so many reboots and reunions happening, will the hit ABC show ever make a comeback?
Earlier this year, ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke expressed a strong desire to revisit the island drama. “Yes, I would like that very much. That is a reboot I would be interested in seeing,” Burke told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in February.
Entertainment Tonight recently sat down with ‘Lost’ co-creator Damon Lindelof at the junket for his highly anticipated HBO series, Watchmen, and they asked him to set the record straight on all those reboot rumors once and for all.
“My feeling is that just like [how] Watchmen was someone else’s story or Star Trek was someone else story, then you kind of pass the baton and things go on,” the showrunner said. “I, personally, am not going to be involved with other versions of Lost because we told the most complete version,” Lindelof clarified. “I feel like I spent four years of my life begging them to end it and when they finally said yes, the ending that we did probably should stand as our ending.”
The executive producer continued, “That said, I know that it is inevitable that someone else is going to come along and say, ‘I have a new idea for Lost,’ and I’m kind of excited about it and very curious about it. I think that would be sort of immensely flattering and super exciting to see what someone else would do with it.”
Damon Lindelof’s new HBO show ‘Watchmen’ premieres Sunday, Oct. 20 at 9 p.m.
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