At an unknown point of time, the concept was also known under the working name The Circle. Even though he was originally only asked for a few minor rewrites before it would be considered ready to start shooting, Lieber eventually ended up heavily rewriting his script. In September 2003, Lieber pitched his premise, then named Nowhere, to ABC, and was then asked to write a pilot. Jeffrey Lieber was hired to write a story for what was pitched to him as a 'hyperrealistic portrayal of life on a deserted island', and he came up with a setting similar to Lord of the Flies. ( The Genesis of Lost)Įven though many people initially laughed at Braun's idea (some comparing it to Gilligan's Island), Thom Sherman, then former senior vice president at ABC, liked the idea and asked his friend Ted Gold, then employed at Spelling Productions, to come up with a working concept based on Braun's idea. Lloyd Braun himself pitched the idea of what he described as 'Cast Away - The Series', after the movie starring Tom Hanks. During a banquet, people suggested various concepts for new TV shows. In the summer of 2003, about 50 ABC executives met at a retreat in Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim, California. Under the lead of group chairman Lloyd Braun, ABC had seen a steady decline to the number four spot in ratings, behind NBC, CBS, and Fox. 3.7 The Lost Experience and countries involved.Lost has also been known for its innovative nontraditional marketing, including a world-spanning alternate reality game (ARG) in 2006 called The Lost Experience Its musical score was composed by Michael Giacchino. The show was produced by ABC Studios (formerly Touchstone Television) and aired on the ABC network in the US. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, was produced by Bad Robot Productions, and was filmed almost entirely on location in Hawaii by their local production company Grass Skirt Productions. The main ingredients that have made Lost an icon for success have been its international ensemble cast, plotline of mysteries, flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash sideways. There, they had to negotiate an unknown monster, an unpredictable group of prior occupants, strange, other worldly island inhabitants, polar bears, and each other as they tried to survive and attract rescue. Lost is an American serial drama television series that predominantly followed the lives of the survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious tropical island. (written from a Production point of view)

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