Is this the last series?

Glenman

Is series 3 going to be the last series of LOST?
Does anyone have a definate answer as to how mant series there will be?

quazzy

I'm nearly certain that there is definitely a fourth season. Im pretty sure the rights to season 3 and 4 were purchased by Sky recently for the UK.

Maybe someone else can confirm

Nalz

Glenman wrote:

Is series 3 going to be the last series of LOST?
Does anyone have a definate answer as to how mant series there will be?

definite no, but there was rumours of a movie to end it after the 4th and final (or maybe 5th) season of LOST.

Undergod

I heard there was a deal signed for seven more series, but I can't vouch for this rumour's truth.

Gillie

Apparently there is one more.
Dominic Monaghan said there was 9 in total when interviewed on JR this year but I think he was taking the pi$$

monkeyfudge

I remember reading that because the cast don't get paid as much as the cast on Desperate Housewives that they've been promised a Lost feature film once the series finishes.

SoSueMe

monkeyfudge wrote:

I remember reading that because the cast don't get paid as much as the cast on Desperate Housewives that they've been promised a Lost feature film once the series finishes.

Since January the cast of Lost are getting paid the same as Desperate Housewives. The whole story with the feature film is that the producers want to have one after five seasons. They have even gone on record saying that they plan on leaving the show after five seasons.

Zombrex

I'm hoping they have a proper story arch set out from the begin (like a lot of British shows do), and they know how long the total series should last. I think if they end it after series 4 or 5 it will be for the best, unless there is some major element of the story we have not been exposed to yet.

There is nothing worse than a TV series with a long running story dragging on way past the original story foundations and stretching the original idea far passed breaking point. X-Files did this (we pretty much knew all the alien take over story a good couple of series before it ended, and the last 2 series added nothing to the story) and it ruined the series for me. The only series I remember that has actually handled this kinda well was StarGate when they switched to the Or-i (sp?) story and brought in new characters, though in the end it felt more like a spin off.

The man who plays Michael has supposedly signed a 5 year contract with Lost. Not entirely sure if this is true. If it is, that would mean it could be up to 7 seasons.

CiaranC

7 seasons? The story is ridiculously convoluted as it is. Series one was great because every twist referred back to an earlier point you had seen and you could more or less keep it in your head.

Its not as if story arcs end with each season, so they are going to be making reference to incidents and storylines 100 episodes ago if it goes that long!

Im getting more cynical about lost. Every time theres a new twist Im thinking - great, we'll get the answer to that one in a year or two. Kinda kills the buzz.

SoSueMe

Here is a snippet from an interview on IGN.com with Executive Producer Carlton Cuse:

IGN: Last year Damon [Lindelof] kind of indicated he had four seasons of material thought out. Now that it's kind of a juggernaut, have you planned past four seasons?

Cuse: We have a mythology and we have an end episode, and the question is how long can the show sustain? I think in a perfect world, we would love to end the show after four or five seasons, but ABC is making a lot of money on the show and that's their prerogative. It's kind of trying to find a happy medium on how long we can sustain the show and have it be good. I mean, we don't want to basically do the show beyond - it's a story and meant to come to an end. It's not a franchise like Grey's Anatomy where there's always another patient that's going to come wheeling into the ER. This show has a beginning and it has an end, the question is when do we get there.

qwertplaywert

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The man who plays Michael has supposedly signed a 5 year contract with Lost. Not entirely sure if this is true. If it is, that would mean it could be up to 7 seasons.

that just means they have the OPTION to use him for the next POSSIBLE five seasons.............

it could [it wont]get cancelled in middle of season 3 and he will still get all his money

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i'm getting a horrible feeling Lost my go the way robert jordan went with the wheel of time

Cuse: We have a mythology and we have an end episode, and the question is how long can the show sustain? I think in a perfect world, we would love to end the show after four or five seasons, but ABC is making a lot of money on the show and that's their prerogative

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I was never a fan of Alias but wasn't there something similar with this.. where it somewhat jumped the shark.

Cina

Meh, the way I see it is that all the storylines the writers had thought up for Alias ended in season 2, i.e. they didnt try to expand it across more seasons, and season 3 onwards just got more and more ridiculous .. and ****.
In Lost they just seem to be expanding the same sort of 2, maybe 3, season storyline out.

chuckberry

When we hear they are making a movie of Lost, it will be coming to an end!

jor el

Lost will end when ABC start to lose money on it (or make less than they would like), simple as that. That might happen in the middle of a season, all of a sudden, or we might see it coming from a mile off, like if the ratings start a steady decline. Either way, it'll be completely ABC's call and the creators will have little say in the matter.

Most likely it'll go on for several more years (past the 4-5 seasons that Abrams and Lindelof had planned) and end up dying a slow death like the X-Files did, though I really really hope not.

acri

i too had heard rumours of the writers having 9 years worth of material from the off. that's not to say it would be used. but i think a finale at the end of season 4 would work nicely.

the movie idea worked well for firefly. firefly was axed (why!?) with a lot of loose ends needing tying. serenity was a great film and relatively satisfying. however, i'm not sure the same would work for lost. not in the traditional film structure sense anyway. if they were to make it like an extended episode, begining with "previously on lost", and get straight into the story, then it could turn out to be a fantastic ending.