The LOST Book Club

For those of us with time on our hands during the hiatus, there is now an official Lost Book Club. Seriously.

Here is a note from the producers:

Welcome to the Lost Book Club.

Over the first four seasons of LOST we've managed to incorporate more than 40 books into the show. For the first time, we've catalogued a list of books available in audio form that relate in some way to LOST. Some are being read by our characters, such as Sawyer, or are just sitting on shelves in episodes of the show; others connect with various themes of the series.

We hope you'll join our informal Lost Book Club. To paraphrase one of our heroes, Stephen King, to be a writer one must first be a reader. We find ourselves constantly striving for even a small measure of the accomplishment of what all these authors have achieved in their books. Pick up any of them and experience the richness of storytelling, character, and theme, and then allow your imagination to connect all that back into our show.

We can't promise you any of these books will lead you to answers about LOST, but we can promise you'll be enriched for having read them.

Enjoy! And fall through the rabbit hole with us!

All our best,
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse

LOST Panel at Comic Con 08 in San Diego

Next month I will be attending Comic-Con for four days in San Diego. It was just announced that the official LOST panel will take place on Saturday, July 26 from noon - 1pm. Guess who will be in line at 6am...

And although an official date and time has not been released, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse will also be participating in a show runner panel hosted by Entertainment Weekly. So of course that will be my second panel priority.

By the way, I will be collecting as much swag as possible from various vendors, panels, participants, etc. I will have a contest after I return, with prizes from either Octagon Global Recruiting or Lost.

LOST Flash Forwards, In Order

I was going to write about the Lost flash forwards in chronological order, but someone has taken the time to do it for us, visually. Enjoy.

Where Are They Now? LOST Cast Updates

Since we have plenty of time on our hands between Seasons 4 & 5, I thought I'd research what the (current) cast of Lost is up to. As a general rule, I don't tend to report gossip or share personal information about celebrities on any of my blogs, so that kind of detail will not be included below.

It seems that many of the cast are taking some much needed time off, while others are fitting in a film or two in the interim.

NAVEEN ANDREWS (Sayid)

Animals
This Side of the Looking Glass

HENRY IAN CUSIK (Desmond)
Dead Like Me
[the big screen adaptation of the Showtime series]

ALAN DALE (Charles Widmore)
Currently appearing in Spamalot, in London

MATTHEW FOX (Jack)
No projects on the horizon

JORGE GARCIA (Hurley)
Although there has been no official news, Jorge is about to begin filming When We Were Pirates.
Here is a video of him recording a song for the film, along with his co-stars.

JOSH HOLLOWAY (Sawyer)
No projects on the horizon

DANIEL DAE KIM (Jin)
No projects on the horizon

ELIZABETH MITCHELL (Juliet)
No projects on the horizon

EMILIE DE RAVIN (Claire)

The Perfect Game
Public Enemies

MICHAEL EMERSON (Ben)
No projects on the horizon

YUNJIN KIM (Sun)
Two Sisters

EVANGELINE LILLY (Kate)
Afterwards

TERRY O'QUINN (Locke)

No projects on the horizon

SONYA WALGER (Penny Widmore)
The Factory
Tell Me You Love Me
(the HBO series has been picked up for Season 2)

Filming should commence later this summer, and Season 5 is scheduled to premiere in January 2009.

Dharma Reaches Out: The Octagon Email

Along with the rest of the Lost world, I received an email today from Octagon Global Recruiting (from a man named Hans Van Eeghen). To refresh your memory, watch their commercial again. It originally aired during the season finale a few weeks ago.

Here is the email:

Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, would like to thank you for registering your expression of interest in our latest volunteer recruitment drive.We will be launching in San Diego on July 24th at Comic-Con International offering select registrants the opportunity to take an exciting aptitude test that will give applicants the chance to demonstrate their unique talents.

The Dharma Initiative hopes you will be able to join us to find out more about their ground-breaking new research project. We will contact you closer to the date with more information.

For those not able to join us in San Diego, Dharma's full recruitment program will be made available online to registered recruits after July 27th.

In the meantime, the Dharma Initiative urges you to spread the word. Invite your colleagues to join the team at www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com and take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity.

I will be at Comic-Con, primarily to attend the Lost panel! So hopefully I will learn more about what Octagon involves and collect some cool swag as well.

So what do you think of this whole campaign?

Hurley Sings! Jorge Garcia Records Song for Indie Film

Hey Lost fans - you must watch this video of Jorge Garcia singing "Here's To You." The song is from the upcoming independent film When We Were Pirates, starring Jorge and Sharon Zimmer.

The movie, directed by Jimmy Hanks (Tom's brother) and written by Rafael J. Noble, sounds like it has the potential to be a cross between The Big Chill and Stand By Me.

Stay tuned for more details! And be sure to bookmark and read Jorge's very entertaining blog, Dispatches From the Island.

Literary & Philosophical Allegories on LOST

I highly recommend that read J. Wood's "Of Myths and Pisteutics" if you're seriously interested in the literary and philosophical references that permeate Lost, as well as how they all intertwine. The article is one of the best I've ever read about the series.