he was like, if you want me to do this pilot you re going to need to give me the resource in order to do it and i want to shoot it as a movie, and then we have to keep that bar up. you start off, you think, this is just a survival drama. here s these people, the plane is crashed, how are they going to get by, how are they going to find food, et cetera? we hunt. and on top of that, there s this whole mystery, where are we, why can t we get a rescue signal, why is there a polar bear, what is going on here? the show averages more than 15.5 million viewers each week and spawned countless web locations where millions of avid fans can obsess. the fan base is saying, when are you going to answer these mysteries? personally i started feeling hamstrung story-wise almost instantly, because we had to do 25 hours of lost in the first season. so we started communicating to abc, we re going to run out of
i think when we say the word cinematic, what we really mean is opening it up a little more but also the ambition of an action set piece. j.j. was very aggressive. he was like, if you want me to do this pilot you re going to need to give me the resource in order to do it and i want to shoot it as a movie, and then we have to keep that bar up. you start off, you think, this is just a survival drama. here s these people, the plane is crashed, how are they going to get by, how are they going to find food, et cetera? we hunt. and on top of that, there s this whole mystery, where are we, why can t we get a rescue signal, why is there a polar bear, what is going on here? the show averages more than
a movie every week. when we say the word cinematic, what we mean is opening it up a little bit more, but also the ambition of an action set piece. j.j. was very aggressive. he was like, if you want me to do this pilot, you re going to need to give me the resource in order to do it and i want to shoot it as a movie and we ve got to keep that bar up. you start off thinking, this is just a survival drama. here are these people whose plane has crashed. how are they going to get by, how are they going to find food, et cetera? we hunt. and on top of that, there is this whole mystery, where are we, why can t we get a rescue signal. why is there a polar bear, what is going on here? the show averages more than 15 1/2 million viewers each week and spawned countless web locations where millions of avid fans can obsess. the fan base is saying, when are you going to answer these mysteries? personally, i started feeling
that storytellers have been doing, it s my god, this is blowing my mind. i can see it now because i just watched three in a row. i think lost is the first huge cinematic tv show i saw. i remember gathering at a friend s house to watch. and it was long enough ago and the internet was still young enough and social media was it was what, friendster? j.j. abrams ambition for the lost pilot was grandiose. he always talked about it as making a movie every week. i think when we say the word cinematic, what we really mean is opening it up a little bit more, but also the ambition of an action set piece. move, move! j.j. was very aggressive. he was if you want me to do this pilot, you re going to need to give me the resource in order to do it, and i want to shoot it as a movie, and then we ve got to keep that bar up.
i remember gathering at a friend s house to watch. and it was long enough ago and the internet was still young enough and social media was i mean it was what, friendster? j.j. abrams ambition for the lost pilot was grandiose. he always talked about it as making a movie every week. i think when we say the word cinematic, what we really mean is opening it up a little more but also the ambition of an action set piece. j.j. was very aggressive. he was like, if you want me to do this pilot you re going to need to give me the resource in order to do it and i want to shoot it as a movie, and then we have to keep that bar up. you start off, you think, this is just a survival drama. here s these people, the plane is crashed, how are they going to get by, how are they going to find food, et cetera?