From Kristin with E!:

• Where is Jin Kwon? This photo would have you believe he’s dead, but spoiler alert: Sources assure me that the freighter-splosion was not fatal and we will see Daniel Dae Kim on the show again. So no one has killed Jin Kwon…well, at least, not yet.
• They went for the postapocalyptic vine-covered Brooklyn-scape, huh? Is this a convenient aesthetic shorthand that integrates the Oceanic Sixers out in the world and the Left Behinders back on the Island, or could it be a portent of actual scenes to come?
• Is there a hidden meaning in the bottles of Dharma pop, Dharma beer and Dharma saltines? What about the busted computer monitor and old TV?

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Speaking with MTV News, “Lost” co-creator and executive producer J.J. Abrams said that while he still believes a theatrical leap is doubtful, he’s now less against the idea than in the past. And that’s mostly because there’s now a firm end-point for the series: May 2010.

With the clock now ticking towards the show’s completion, the “Star Trek” helmer is slowly growing intrigued in the idea of continuing the story.

“The only reason why I think maybe there would be a movie,” he explained, “is that by doing that — which is hopefully the right way to go and that’s it — you do have that sense of, well, it didn’t go on any longer and therefore is there something else that you could do? So there’s a chance, but my gut is it would never happen.”

Screw “Lost” as a movie, I’d rather watch “Alias” or even “Fringe” as a movie.

For four seasons now, millions of “Lost” fans have tuned in each week to follow the mysterious, deeply complex adventures of Jack, Kate, John, Sawyer, Hurley and rest of the Island’s ever-growing population. But with only two seasons left in what’s arguably the most successful episodic series on television, producers are already looking towards the future…and that could potentially mean a trip to Hollywood for the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815.

“The one thing that makes you think maybe there could be [a movie],” stated Abrams, “is that ABC agreed to end the series after six years. Which is a gift, because you know you won’t have years seven and eight where you’re thinking ‘they should’ve ended at year six,’ and you know how to pace yourself so that you know how to end the series.”

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Multiple sources have confirmed to Michael Ausiello exclusively that Michelle Rodriguez (a.k.a. Ana Lucia) is returning to Lost for one episode in the new season.

Details of her comeback are, not surprisingly, shrouded in secrecy, but here’s what Entertainment Weekly can tell you:

• Rodriguez is back for one episode, most likely this season’s second. As a result, the risk to Hawaii’s roadways is said to be minimal.
• Given that Ana Lucia’s bullet-riddled body is probably entering the final stage of rigor mortis, conventional Lost wisdom (if there is such a thing) suggests she’ll be appear in someone’s flashback or via hallucination. The fact that Cheech Marin is also on the guest list for eppy 2, suggests that it’s most likely the latter and the person seeing dead people is Hurley. There’s also this theory, put forth by EW’s own Doc Jensen: “Maybe Ana Lucia busted L.A.-based Ghost Hustler Miles during her pre-crash LAPD days, and now the freighter folkster is seeing visions of the late Tailie on the Island!”
• Rodriguez’ return follows last season’s “resurrection” of fellow doomed tailie Cynthia Watros (Libby), who appeared in a vision to Michael. Could Mr. Eko next, thus completing, as Jensen jests, the Busted Tailie Storyline Redemption Tour?”

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“Lost” returns tonight on ABC at a new time (10/9c) with six new hours that climax with the two-part finale (5/15 and 5/29). ComingSoon.net got a chance to talk to Matthew Fox, who plays Jack, during the press day for Speed Racer.

Asked about whether the flash forwards and knowing the end date of the series has changed how he approaches work, Fox said, “Not really. Not that much. No. You know we’re going to catch up with the flash forwards here in this year and then we’ll be back and it’s going to be really interesting to see how time is structured in season five. But we will have closed those two points – the finale of last year where you had that juxtaposition of him on the island feeling like he’d finally accomplished rescue and this future where he’s desperate and at the pit of despair and feels like he has to go back and we don’t know why and what’s transpired in between. We will have closed that thing and so we will have gotten back into a situation where we’ll be in the present.”

How much gets resolved in the finale?

“Huge, huge stuff. We’re shooting pretty much three episodes. It’s really like a three-episode finale that we’re shooting simultaneously. It’s huge.”

And will more questions be answered? “There will be huge things answered. Yes.”

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Seven and a half months later, we’re still picking brain matter off the wall. There we were, innocently watching Lost’s season 3 finale on May 23, trying to figure out the direction of the flashback sequence in which Dr. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) had become an oxycodone addict/Grizzly Adams look-alike, when suddenly…WTF?! This is a flash-forward?! He and Kate (Evangeline Lilly) are both off the island?! Wait…now he wants to go back? This stunning episode — in which Jack led the castaways to near rescue (or not, depending on those freighter folks), and Dominic Monaghan’s Charlie embraced his watery fate — represented a return to glory for ABC’s acclaimed island drama, which had left critics and fans disgruntled earlier in the season. It also marked another potent acting performance by Fox, 41, who’s served as a Lost leader, on screen and off, ever since Flight 815 crashed in 2004. ”I felt, and heard many other cast members say, that the show had hit a new plateau — and that Matthew in particular had gone there with it,” says Michael Emerson, who plays Jack’s eerie nemesis, Ben.

During a strike-created break from shooting season 4 — eight episodes were completed before the shutdown — we caught up with Fox (who also stars in next month’s political thriller Vantage Point) near his Manhattan Beach, Calif., home. He looked back at the finale as well as the producers’ decision to end Lost for good after 48 more episodes, and even offered us a peek into the future before the series returns on Jan. 31 (now on Thursdays at 9 p.m. — set those DVRs!). ”I think the show’s going to be better in its last three seasons than it was in the first three,” he notes, adding, ”There’s going to be some huge mind-blowing s—.” You heard the man: Helmets on. (And for more clues about how Lost will play out from here, don’t miss EW.com’s video interview with Matthew Fox, including behind-the-scenes footage from his on-the-beach photo shoot for Entertainment Weekly.)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was your first reaction to the big twist in the season finale?
MATTHEW FOX: Something like ”Holy s—!” It really caught me off guard. I’m not sure I ever thought that people were going to get off the island…. Damon [Lindelof, who co-wrote the finale with fellow exec producer Carlton Cuse] did such an amazing job of orchestrating something that when you’re looking at it for the first time it feels like a flashback, but there’d be little things that are a little odd — like why Jack seems so ridiculously messed up. You think it’s in relationship to his marriage falling apart, and then boom, you go, ”Oh, my God, this is a leap forward in time. What does that mean? Why is he suicidal?” I just think that’s great.

How hard was it to keep the big twist a secret?
I was walking around with the cat-that-ate-the-canary look on my face. And when I would get questioned on it, I would say, ”I can’t say anything, but, man, I can’t wait for you to find out.” Even a lot of the crew didn’t know. When the scripts went out, the last scene of the episode was missing. So when we started shooting, the crew was just like, ”Oh my God!”

Did you guys shoot any decoy endings?
We didn’t, for that. But that has been done, which I just recently discovered.

Do you mean for last season or this one?
This one coming up. I wasn’t part of that particular scene. I thought I knew what was going on in the scene, and then found out that I didn’t.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Fans have been analyzing this Jack line from the flash-forward: ”You get my father down here…. And if I’m drunker than he is, you can fire me.” Given that his dad is dead, what was your take on that?
MATTHEW FOX: He was so loaded and emotionally distraught that he talks about his father as if he’s still alive. I called Damon on it, and he gave me a couple stories — actual accounts of people whose very close relative [died], and in a moment of being really f—ed up, talked about them as if they did not know they were not alive. In that moment, Jack is losing track of any concept of time. I knew that there was a way to look at it and go, ”Well, that’s kind of manipulative.” But when you [realize], ”Oh, it’s in the future,” you can believe that the man — years after his father has actually passed away — says that about his father in that moment. I totally buy it.

What is Jack referring to when he says to Kate: ”I’m sick of lying. We made a mistake”?
Jack and the other people, upon getting back to the world, are not being honest with the world. They are covering up [something]. That’s an agreement that they’ve all reached. And it’s a weird, gross little bond that they have with each other. They don’t see each other much, but when they see each other, it’s incredibly awkward. And this lie — you can cut it with a knife amongst them.

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