The fourth season of the U.S. serial drama television series Lost began airing on Thursday, January 31, 2008. Planned to contain sixteen episodes, eight have been filmed while another eight await resolution of the Writers Guild of America strike. Pending resolution of the strike, the season will conclude in May 2008. It continues the stories of a group of more than forty people who have been stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific after their airplane crashed ninety-three days prior to the beginning of the season. They are assailed by a group of dangerous island inhabitants they call the "Others" and attempt to escape the mysterious island. Episodes will continue to feature secondary storylines showing points in characters' lives before and after their time on the island.
The series is produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and will be aired on the American Broadcasting Company Network in the U.S. Co-creator/executive producer/head writer Damon Lindelof and executive producer/writer Carlton Cuse serve as the show runners. The show is primarily filmed in Hawaii with post-production in Los Angeles.
Actor Jorge Garcia called the premiere's script "awesome"
The eight staff writers attended a "minicamp" in June to map out the storylines of the final three seasons of Lost. Filming on location Oahu, Hawaii, USA began on August 17, 2007 and halted on November 21, due to the strike. Sixteen episodes will be produced in total, with the season finale being twice the length of a normal episode. In response to complaints from fans about reruns, the season will run with one new episode per week for sixteen weeks in early 2008. Executive producer/writer Carlton Cuse stated that doing a sixteen episode season, instead of a twenty-four episode season as had been previously done, will give the crew less pressure and more creative freedom to produce higher quality content. E! reports that ABC insiders have said that the completed fourth season episodes are "crazy good" and will "even satisfy the haters."
While the previous seasons aired on Wednesdays in the US, the fourth season will air new episodes Thursday nights at 9:00, replacing a strike-halted fourth season of Grey's Anatomy. A world premiere of the fourth season of Lost was to be held outdoors at Sunset on the Beach in Waikiki, Honolulu, where movies are regularly shown on a 30-foot screen free to the public. It has, however, been cancelled due to the continuing writers' strike. Advertisements for the season are playing in movie theatres.
The Writers Guild of America went on strike on November 4, 2007, which will result in a lack of new episodes for many series. As Lost writers began work on the fourth season in late June 2007, Lost is one of the few series expected to continue airing new episodes during the strike.[The script coordinator has said that the eighth episode's ending is very shocking and will serve as something of a finale as it was the last to be completely written before the strike began. While the show runners want to hold the eight episodes until they are able to produce more of the season because the eighth episode's cliffhanger, which they wrote without the strike in mind, is not enough to end a season on,ABC has decided that the eight episodes will be aired from February to March, regardless of whether any more episodes are produced in the 2007-2008 television season. Despite picketing on most days, Cuse, a member of the WGA negotiating committee, is continuing to oversee post-production.
Crew
The executive producers are co-creator J.J. Abrams, Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, and Cuse. The staff writers are Lindelof, Cuse, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, co-executive producer Drew Goddard, supervising producer Elizabeth Sarnoff, co-producerBrian K. Vaughan and executive story editor Christina M. Kim. The regular directors are Bender and co-executive producer Stephen Williams.
Casting
Stuntwoman Zoë Bell will guest star in the seventh episode
Despite his importance in the previous season and the mysteries surrounding his ageless character, recurring guest star Nestor Carbonell will likely not return to reprise the role of Richard Alpert soon, as he is now starring on CBS's new show, Cane. The producers had hoped that Harold Perrineau, a former main cast member who had been absent since the second season finale, would return for the third season finale, but he was busy with the pilot for CBS' Demons. Since Demons was not picked up, Perrineau signed a full fourth season contract of Lost. Cynthia Watros was given star billing in the second season, however, she became the first starring actress to not receive an episode with flashbacks from her character's perspective as she was killed off late in the season, although she did appear in a few flashbacks of other characters' episodes.[40] While a flashback episode was originally planned for Watros's character in the second season, it did not happen. It was then stated that Watros would appear in flashbacks throughout the third season, but this also failed to happen. The writers have now said that Watros's character's mysterious backstory needs to be revealed through multiple flashbacks of a new character who was not aboard Oceanic Flight 815 and will be introduced in the fourth season.
Fahey will appear in multiple episodes
There will be at least five new recurring guest stars in the fourth season. Fake names and fake occupations have been temporarily assigned to the characters during casting to limit the leak of credible spoilers on the Internet. Rebecca Mader was then cast as "successful academic" "Charlotte," due in part to her English accent. After seeing Ken Leung guest star on HBO's The Sopranos, Lindelof and Cuse wrote a part for him. The producers had hoped to audition Lance Reddick for the second season starring role of Mr. Eko, however, he was busy on HBO's The Wire. For the fourth season, he was cast as Matthew Abbadon in two episodes of the (planned) first half of the season. Jeremy Davies was cast as Daniel Faraday because he is one of the producers' favourite film character actors. Jeff Fahey joined the cast, with Cuse commending his "intense eyes." Fahey is currently sporting a beard and as of the end of August 2007, the producers have not decided whether or not they want him to shave it off. Grant Bowler and singer Azure McCall will also guest star. Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu has been approached to guest star in the fourth season. Kristen Bell, best known for her starring role on the CW's Veronica Mars, spoke to the producers about having a part. No role, however, was offered to her, and she joined the cast of NBC's Heroes.
Characters
From left to right: Hurley, Claire, Sawyer, Kate, Jack, Jin, Sun, Juliet, Locke, Sayid, Ben and Desmond
The season features sixteen major roles with star billing. The following main characters are briefly summarized and ordered by number of prior episode appearances. Matthew Fox stars as doctor Jack Shephard, the leader of the castaways. Evangeline Lilly stars as fugitive Kate Austen, who is unsure if she loves Jack or Sawyer more. Josh Holloway portrays the sardonic con-man James "Sawyer" Ford, while Jorge Garcia's character Hurley Reyes serves as the show's comic relief.Terry O'Quinn plays John Locke, an alienated survivor with a deep connection to the island. Naveen Andrews acts as Sayid Jarrah, a former Iraqi Republican Guard. Daniel Dae Kim plays non-English speaking Jin Kwon, the son of a fisherman, with Yunjin Kim as Jin's English-speaking pregnant wife Sun. Emilie de Ravin portrays single new mother Claire Littleton. Perrineau returns as single father Michael Dawson, after he and his son escaped the island after cutting a deal with the Others, which included killing two of his fellow castaways. Michael Emerson acts as Ben Linus, a high-ranking manipulative Other and Henry Ian Cusick plays Desmond Hume, a man who can see flashes of the future. Elizabeth Mitchell portrays Juliet Burke, an Other of three years who is trying to escape the island and is romantically involved with Jack. Dominic Monaghan returns as the deceased Charlie Pace as a hallucination of Hurley's. Actors Jeremy Davies, Ken Leung, and Rebecca Mader also join the cast this season.
The show always features numerous guest stars. Recurring character Danielle Rousseau, portrayed by Mira Furlan, may be given a flashback episode, however, this may be delayed until the fifth season. Tania Raymonde plays her daughter Alex and Blake Bashoff plays Alex's boyfriend Karl. L. Scott Caldwell returns as Flight 815 survivor Rose Henderson and Sam Anderson acts as her husband Bernard Nadler.Marsha Thomason returns as Naomi Dorrit, a woman from a freighter 80 miles offshore of the island. Little is known about the recurring characters who will be played by Davies, Fahey, Leung, Mader and Reddick. John Terry as Christian Shephard and Billy Ray Gallion as Randy Nations reprise their recurring roles in the premiere episode
Special guest stars are actors and actresses who were once given star billing, but due to a character's death or escape from the island, now appear on occasion. First season main cast member Malcolm David Kelley will return again to play Michael's son, Walt Lloyd. Watros will appear in flashbacks as Hurley's murdered girlfriend Libby. Greg Grunberg will reprise his role as the Flight 815's pilot. Guest star Fionnuala Flanagan, who portrayed Ms. Hawking will return sometime during season 4.Sonya Walger's character Penny Widmore and Andrew Divoff's dead character Mikhail Bakunin will be returning as well. Rodrigo Santoro, who played the late Paulo, has expressed that he would enjoy returning to work on Lost in flashbacks or dreams.
Plot
Episodes
"Series #" refers to the episode's number in the overall series, whereas "Season #" refers to the episode's number in this particular season. "Featured character(s)" refers to the character(s) who is centred on in the episode's flashbacks or flashforwards. Hurley and Kate receive flashforwards in the first four episodes. Juliet will be the featured character sometime in the first six episodes. A clip-show recapping the first three seasons titled "Past, Present & Future" preceded the premiere. |
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