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Is Lost a rip-off?

by Holli

There was this other show from the late-60’s called The New People, and it’s been suggested that Lost is a little too similar to The New People. According to TV Squad:

The setup is the same (a plane crash on an island where people start a new society), and weren’t there originally 40 survivors of the Lost plane crash? The phrase “the new people” sounds a lot like “the Others.” And Rod Serling created the show and wrote the first ep under a pseudonym, and J.J. Abrams has said many times that he’s a huge Rod Serling/Twilight Zone fan. Alas, there is no connection. They didn’t even know about the show before, and producer Damon Lindelof wishes he had known about it before so he could have named Charlie’s band The New People instead of Drive Shaft. Heh.

I love that the producer wishes he had known about the show so that he could reference it in the show. Little things like that make me smile.


Posted in Gossip, News on October 28th, 2006

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