Lost’s Film and TV Ancestry

“What are we to make of a television show like Lost which comes up against the wind of not only an astonishing variety of literary fictions, but movies, too, and other television series as well?”—”Is There a Text on This Television?” Lost Media Ancestry

Lost’s Creative Team’s Previous/Contemporaneous Series Lost Media Ancestry

Lost Buffy/Angel/Whedon Alums: Brian K. Vaughan David Fury (middle), Drew Godard (right) Lost Media Ancestry

Lost Deadwood Alum: Elizabeth Sarnoff Lost Media Ancestry

J. J. Abrams (1966- ). Lost episodes written/co- written: “Pilot” (1), “Pilot” (2), “A Tale of Two Cities.” In addition to authoring/co-authoring such films as Taking Care of Business, Regarding Henry, Forever Young, Gone Fishin’, and Armageddon has also written episodes of Alias and Felicity. Directed Lost’s Pilot, Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek (2009)

Lost Media Ancestry Alias (ABC, )

Lost Media Ancestry Mission Impossible III (J. J. Abrams, 2006)

Lost Media Ancestry Fringe (FOX, )

Lost Media Ancestry xxxxxx Star Trek (J. J. Abrams, 2009)

Carlton Cuse (1959- ). Lost episodes written/co-written: “Hearts & Minds,” “Deus Ex Machina,” “Exodus (I),” “Exodus (II),” “... And Found,” “The Other 48 Days,” “The 23rd Psalm,” “One of Them,” “Lockdown,” “?,” “Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1,” “Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2,” “Further Instructions,” “I Do,” “Not in Portland,” “Enter 77,” “One of Us,” “The Brig,” “Through the Looking Glass,” “The Beginning of the End,” “The Constant,” “There’s No Place Like Home” (Parts I, II, and III), “Because You Left.” Has also written episodes of Nash Bridges, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Crime Story.

Lost Media Ancestry The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (FOX, )

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Nash Bridges (CBS, )

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Damon Lindelof (1973- ). Lost episodes written/co-written: “Pilot (1),” “Pilot (2),” “Tabula Rasa,” “Confidence Man,” “Whatever the Case May Be,” “Homecoming,” “Deus Ex Machina,” “Exodus (I),” “Exodus (II),” “Man of Science, Man of Faith,” “... And Found,” “The Other 48 Days,” “The 23rd Psalm,” “One of Them,” “Lockdown,” “?,” “Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1,” “Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” “I Do,” “Flashes Before Your Eyes,” “Enter 77,” “Left Behind,” “The Brig,” “Through the Looking Glass,” “The Beginning of the End,” “The Constant,” “There’s No Place Like Home” (Parts I, II, and III), “Because You Left.” Has also written episodes of Crossing Jordan, Nash Bridges.

Lost Media Ancestry Crossing Jordan (NBC, ). Cuse and Lindelof both worked together on this series created by Tim Kring (Heroes)

Lost’s Film and TV Ancestry: Movies

Lost Media Ancestry The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)

Lost Media Ancestry Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)

Lost Media Ancestry Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

Lost Media Ancestry Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

Lost Media Ancestry Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)  Solaris (Steven Soderberg, 2002) ->

Lost Media Ancestry Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)

Lost Media Ancestry Disaster Movies

Lost’s Film and TV Ancestry: Television

Lost Media Ancestry Twilight Zone (CBS, )

Lost Media Ancestry The Prisoner (ITV, )

Lost Media Ancestry Gilligan’s Island (CBS, )

Lost Media Ancestry The X-Files (FOX, )

Lost Media Ancestry Twin Peaks (ABC, )

Lost Media Ancestry Survivor (CBS, )

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