If Stephen King Wrote The End For Lost
I’m not an Entertainment Weekly fan, but this article makes it worth the money. The only way this article could be *any* better is if they somehow included Heroes. lol
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The upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly has a BOMBASTICALLY cool article which is basically a conversation moderated by Jeff Jensen between Stephen King, JJ Abrams, Carlton Cuse, and Damon Lindelof! The conversation took place right here in Maine (I’m a Mainer, ayuh) in King’s home town of Bangor – just 40 minutes up the road from yours truly. For Jeff’s memoir of the event click here.
During the conversation, the inevitable happened. Much to the delight of dual LOST/KING fans everywhere they asked King the big one: How would you end LOST. His answer lays beneath the jump!
Here, in his own words, is how Stephen King would end LOST:
I would take the main guy, Jack – the first shot of the whole series is his eye-ball close up, right? What that always said to me was that from now on, everything I see, Jack’s the eye of the beholder. So I would do something at the end where I flashback to the airport when they were getting on the plane, and I would have him taken away by people who wanted information out of him.
I would have them hook him up to a machine or something, or feed him drugs, and reveal the whole series had been Jack’s hallucination, built out of fragments of his real life – people from his past, people in the airport, his father, of course, and the numbers. The whole thing would be a lot of shuck and jive. I’d make it work somehow. It would creak, but I’d make it work.
December 17th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Pretty cool. Actually a bit like the movie “the usual suspects”. Kevin Spacey is the “gimp”. Arrested by the police, only survivor of a horrific massacre – tells a story leading police through the whole escapade. It’s only after dismissing him from the interrogation room that the detective realizes he’s been had. Hey, maybe Jack is Kaiser Souza. Perfect!!
December 19th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Bruce: Interesting analogy. I loved that movie. I’d love to see Hurley as Kaiser. He could be any number of alternative personalities. Maybe the illusive Jacob….??
December 21st, 2006 at 8:13 am
I think Stephen King could pull it off… but I’d still be pretty disappointed to have the whole thing be a dream. I would feel cheated and could very possibly end up in a downward spiral leading to a bottomless pit of 90210 reruns…