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‘Chasing the Whale’Blue Crush" and "Rocky Point" writer/director John Stockwell is 20th Century Fox's choice to rewrite and direct the casino drama "Chasing the Whale." "Rocky Point," a teen coming-of-age drama set on the North Shore, is hoping to get a midseason spot on the WB. It looks like that filming will be pushed back a week to Sept. 7 from Aug. 31 at least partly due to a crew shortage here, a Los Angeles source says ...
"Hawaii" co-star Ivan Sergei may direct an episode if the series gets picked up for an additional nine shows by NBC, and if not this season, then in season two, a producer says ...
Producers of "Lost" are only telling the back stories of the 15 primary survivors of the 48 total in the castaway drama, apparently to make the acting more spontaneous. Each character likely will have an episode exclusively for their flashbacks and personal history.
(Tidbits on the script: Whatever's tromping through the jungle of the unnamed Pacific island the plane crash survivors are on is not a dinosaur, and the 48 people are not the first to be stranded on the island.)
Cast and character info: Leads Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly play physician Jack and Mary Ann; Dominic Monaghan is Charlie, a drug-addicted rock star of a fictional band called Driveshaft; Jorge Garcia plays Hurley, the show's comic relief; Naveen Andrews is Sayid, a veteran of Iraq's Republican Guard with survival skills; Josh Holloway plays "ugly American" Sawyer; Maggie Grace is eye-candy Shannon; Emilie DeRaven plays the pregnant Claire, who worries for her unborn child; Harold Perrineau Jr. is Michael, a father reconnecting with his young son, Walt (Malcolm David Kelley), whose mother recently died from cancer; Daniel Dae Kim and Yoon-jin Kim play Jin and Sun, Korean nationals who don't speak English, which separates them from the other survivors; and Terry O'Quinn plays Locke, a suspicious old man who spends most of episode one near the ocean, smiling mysteriously at the other survivors.
The unedited pilot, tentatively called "Tabula Rasa" (clean slate), is just over two hours long now. The production has been filming in Chinatown last week, doing flashback sequences, including using one building whose ground floor windows were painted with the words "Melbourne Walkabout Tourist."
The pilot ends with Charlie asking other survivors "Guys, where are we?"
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