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LOST’s Damon Lindelof Rewriting ALIEN Prequel

Mike Fleming of Deadline New York has news that Damon Lindelof has taken his first big solo screenwriting job since concluding the ABC series Lost.

I’m been told that he closed a deal to do rewrite work on 20th Century Fox’s ALIEN prequel, which the studio hopes Ridley Scott will direct as his next assignment. In a development as vexing as a Lost plotline, studio insiders said that while Lindelof indeed met with Scott and the studio for that rewrite job, the exchange of ideas between them sparked a take that could well turn out to be a free-standing science fiction film. The studio will decide when Lindelof turns it in. Scott Free is producing and Lindelof’s CAA reps closed his deal last night.

Lindeloff is currently writing with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci Paramount’s STAR TREK sequel, on which Lindelof is a producer. He also teamed with Kurtzman and Orci to write the Jon Favreau-directed COWBOYS AND ALIENS, which is shooting now with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.

That’s plenty of action, but I’m told that Lindelof jumped at this opportunity because Scott’s 1979 space thriller ALIEN was such a seminal influence on him. Resuscitating the Alien franchise has been a big priority for Fox, which has a script by Jon Spaihts, who wrote the Gabriele Muccino-directed Keanu Reeves-starrer PASSENGERS for Morgan Creek, and whose drafts on the Alien film persuaded Scott to move from producing the film to directing it.

Source: Deadline New York

LOST Season 6 Premiere Date!

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The final season has arrived. LOST fans rejoice. I love LOST as much as the next guy, and I am really hoping that everything will come full circle (or pretty close to) when the season premieres this year. The official date has been announced by ABC today that the special “all night event” will be on February 2nd 2010. The evening will start off with an hour long review of season’s past and then end with the 2-hour season premiere at 9:00PM ET.

The series will then commence to its normal time from 9:00-10:00pm ET the following week!

I can’t wait! Anyone have a theory worked out yet for the ending?

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EXCLUSIVE WONDERCON 09 WRAP-UP (w/ JJ Abrams, Solid Snake, R2-D2 and more!)

EXCLUSIVE WONDERCON 09 WRAP-UP

Internet celeb Dave Fox gives We Are Movie Geeks an exclusive look at WonderCon 2009. With his off the wall interview antics, Dave tackles a multitude of questions – How did Will from Will & Grace adapt to moving from the small to big screen? What are Solid Snakes true feelings towards Sunny’s Mom? What happens when we interview D-List Marvel Characters? Why are people still trying to do terrible Joker impressions? Last but not least, we ask JJ Abrams (creator of LOST, Felicity / director of Star Trek) how he really comes up with all his ideas while he writes (hint: you won’t want to miss the answer @2:20).

Lindelof Talks ‘Dark Tower’

AMCTV.Com caught up with Lost Executive Producer and long-time JJ Abrams collaborator, Damon Lindelof.   Besides Lost and ‘Star Trek’, the ‘Dark Tower’ project was brought up.   About a year ago, Lindelof picked up the rights to the Stephen King series.

“The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we’ve got seven books we’re looking at. And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable,” Lindelof said.

“There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one.”

So, no ‘Dark Tower’ (the first movie would be titled ‘The Gunslinger’) until at least 2010?   At least we have something long-term to look forward to.

On an editorial note, The Dark Tower is an amazing series for anyone who likes fantasy or Stephen King.   It is pretty time consuming (I started the series in 1994 and didn’t finish until last year), but it is well worth it.