A LOST Season 7 reboot or spinoff is surely a matter of time, but EPs Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have re-opened the hatch by revealing their ‘explosive’ original ending for the show.
Speaking to EW, the duo revealed how the Island’s volcano would have course-corrected the show’s endgame:
By season 6, the writers had settled on the concept that the island was like a cork that bottled up all sorts of bad stuff, some volatile stew of spiritual dark matter stuff that would rob life of meaning and goodness if unleashed. “The question was always, how do you basically visualize and dramatize the idea that the island itself is all that separates the world from hellfire and damnation?” says Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof. “And the answer was the volcano.”
Lindelof and Cuse initially envisioned a finale in which Jack (Matthew Fox) and Smokey incarnate (Terry O’Quinn) would brawl over the fate of the island at Lost’s proverbial Mount Doom. “The volcano had been dormant for the duration of the series,” explains Lindelof, “but based on moving into this endgame, the island had become unstable and the volcano was going to erupt. We were going to have lots of seismic activity, and ultimately, there was going to be this big fight between the forces of good and the forces of evil, which ended up in the series manifesting as Jack and The Man in Black, in the midst of magma. Magma spewing everywhere!”
Liz says
April 11, 2017 at 10:48Both ideas would be interesting on how they do it.
USMaillady says
April 17, 2017 at 14:07Too bad the original cast wouldn’t be available, seeing as several of them are now in other hit shows. Highly doubt I’d watch a spin off that didn’t include the majors..