Writer and Producer, his most recent credit is creating and producing LOST, but he's also worked on the Star Trek reboot (and the upcoming sequel), Cowboys Aliens, and so much more. We're embarrassed at how excited we all are for this episode! Episode rundown provided by trekmovie.com [23:00] Intro of Lindelof [26:00] Lost, including criticism of finale (and talk about other show finales), and "feud" with George RR Martin [50:00] Inspirations, including (George Lucas & Stephen King) [59:00] Early writing and time at NYU [01:07:00] Early life in Hollywood [01:15:00] More on Stephen King and King film/TV adaptations [01:26:00] Admits likes Star Wars more than Star Trek (in series of This v That questions) [01:27:00] Genesis Lost and his starting his JJ Abrams collaboration, and becoming showrunner, and even more Lost [02:10:00] Cowboys & Aliens and working with Jon Favreu, and collaborating with Orci, Kurtzman and other writers (on C&A) [02:18:00] Prometheus (and working with Ridley Scott) and its connection to Alien franchise [02:24:00] How the writer's strike allowed him to produce Star Trek while also working on Lost [02:25:00] More on Ridley Scott and Prometheus [fun fact: took 2 weeks to write first draft of script] [02:34:00] Talks briefly about newly announced 1952 project with Disney, clarifies he won't be working on it until after the Star Trek sequel [02:38:00] Wrapping up and outro [02:43:00] Damon playsLarry King Game (doing bad Larry King impression)
Keywords: kevin pollak, damon lindelof, cowboys and aliens, lost, alien, ridley scott, prometheus
