Lindelof Close To New TV Deal

[TrekToday]

Star Trek 2‘s Damon Lindelof is said to be close to wrapping up a new deal with Warner Bros. TV. If the three-year deal goes through, he would be joining J.J. Abrams at Warner Bros., as an in-house series creator. “…At this point I still look at myself as a writer,” said Lindelof. “This (deal) [...]

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[Temis the Vorta]

Not a cop show in sf/f window dressing, please.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Lost: The Next Generation. Coming soon.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

In the original story, he swears "he has no interest in doing more shows with 'wackadoo mythology.'"

Which is why I'm thinking...sci fi lite.

 

[pork3]

Not a cop show in sf/f window dressing, please.

This...this..this.and this again.
Or any variant of the above such as a lawyer show with superficial sf/f elements.

-Jamman

 

[Enterprise is Great]

So not a cop show if sci-fi dressing?

Damon Lindelof Teams With Author Tom Perrotta For ‘The Leftovers’ Series At HBO

In his first TV series project since Lost, Damon Lindelof is heading to HBO for The Leftovers, a drama based on Tom Perrotta’s 2011 book, which the two will co-write together. This marks the first foray into cable for the Lost executive producer/co-showrunner and the first project under the rich three-year overall deal he recently signed with Warner Bros TV. The Leftovers, produced by HBO in association with WBTV, takes place after the Rapture happens but not quite like it’s supposed to. It is the story of the people who didn’t make the cut… and a world that will never be the same. Lindelof and Perrotta will co-write the script and executive produce the project, now in development, with Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger. If The Leftovers moves forward, Lindelof will serve as the showrunner.

 

[shapeshifter]

That sounds like a cool new twist on the post apocalyptic theme. Too bad we do not have HBO.

 

[JarodRussell]

Prepare for more mysteries that will never be explained and plots that will never be resolved.

 

[RoJoHen]

Didn't "Left Behind" already do this? Or was that just a mini-series?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Well, that doesn't sound like the usual thing.

Left Behind is a religious-focused story. This sounds like a secular take on the same material - what would the world be like filled with atheists and sinners? Hee hee!

 

[Dick Whitman]

So the uptight believers are gone and the remaining women are ready and willing to please fellow Atheists....

Can I be transported to me dream world?

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I haven't read the book but when I heard about this project today I checked out amazon.com for reviews. From what I've read it appears that it was a random collection of people who disappeared...some good people, some bad people, believers and atheists, Christians and non-Christians alike. This of course causes problems.

 

[RoJoHen]

what would the world be like filled with atheists and sinners? Hee hee!

So it's a documentary about me and my friends. Awesome!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I haven't read the book but when I heard about this project today I checked out amazon.com for reviews. From what I've read it appears that it was a random collection of people who disappeared...some good people, some bad people, believers and atheists, Christians and non-Christians alike. This of course causes problems.

Oh no! Does that mean the real story here is, trying to make sense of a mysterious situation and wait year after year for an explanation? I've heard this song and dance before!

 

[Harvey]

Didn't "Left Behind" already do this? Or was that just a mini-series?

That was a series of three (TV?) movies.

Honestly, though, I can't find much of interest in a story about the rapture. As an atheist, I'm not usually drawn to religious stories, and if what I've heard about Lost and seen in Prometheus is any indication, Lindelof's ideas on the subject are presented as profound but in reality half-baked.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

If a random collection of people vanished, then the question is, why is anyone interpreting it as the Rapture? Could just as easily be aliens with transporters, kidnapping folks. Or the people "left behind" are in reality the Raptured ones, and heaven/hell/purgatory looks just like Earth. (I like that, I'm going with that theory already. )

 

[RoJoHen]

Or the people "left behind" are in reality the Raptured ones, and heaven/hell/purgatory looks just like Earth. (I like that, I'm going with that theory already. )

Did they all board an Oceanic flight before they were left behind?

 

[Mach5]

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Well, in America, he's apparently not gay or an idiot, but the other stuff, yeah.

However, Brannon Braga is an idiot, while JJ Abrams is overrated and also Jewish. Fun game.

 

[Mach5]

Well, in America, he's apparently not gay or an idiot, but the other stuff, yeah.

I wonder what happened to "douchebag". Oh Google, you fail me yet again...

However, Brannon Braga is an idiot,

I don't need no search engine to tell me that.

while JJ Abrams is overrated and also Jewish. Fun game.

JJ most certainly IS overrated. But he's not without talent. Can't say the same for Lindelof, though.


Yeah, I'm still kinda buttmad over Prometheus. My inner child had zillions of nerdgasms when it heard Ridley Scott was coming back to sci-fi. Then Lindeschmuck came aboard...