LOST Trivia

LOST Trivia

• The four toed statue that appears in the show is of Tawaret, the egyptian goddess of fertility.
• Matthew Fox (Jack) originally auditioned for the role of Sawyer.
• Ep. 1 Pilot: Part 1
  Before Damon Lindleoff, Carlton Cuse, or JJ Abrams were signed to show Lost's pilot was originally going to span the course of a few months. By the end of the Pilot, the lostee's would already have huts.
• Ep. 1 Pilot: Part 1
  Yunjin Kim, the actress for Sun, originally tried for the role for Kate but was not what the producers wanted, instead they created a new character for her.
• Ep. 1 Pilot: Part 1
  Jorge Garcia originally auditioned for the role of Charlie Pace.
• Ep. 1 Pilot: Part 1
  Jack Shepard was initially going to die instead of the pilot when the monster attacked the plane. The protagonist of the show would have been Kate but initall screenings and tests showed that having someone we followed for 20 minutes bite it would turn people away.
• Ep. 1 Pilot: Part 1
  Lloyd Braun, the former ABC chairmen, only greenlit Lost's extrodinary budget (10-14 million for a pilot) because he knew he was going to get fired.
• Ep. 1 Pilot: Part 1
  The burning piece of fuselage that fell behind Charlie, fell prematurely. To paraphrase Damon Lindleoff, when you hang something that is on fire it does in fact tend to burn through what is holding it. Because the camera was rolling, it caught Dominic Monaghan very real look of surprise when it failed.
• Ep. 1 Pilot: Part 1
  Terry O'Quinn is the only cast member who didn't need to audition for his role, because of his previous work on Alias, J.J. Abrams knew he'd be perfect for the role.
• Ep. 1 Pilot: Part 1
  The plane that make up Oceanic Flight 815 is actually a real life 747 that executive producer Jean Higgins bought from a plane graveyard in Mojave Desert. To ship it they cut it up into smaller pieces and sent it on barges.
• Ep. 2 Pilot: Part 2
  The plot for the entire series is revealed in Part 2 of the Pilot.
• Ep. 4 Walkabout
  The iconic ending of the episode "Walkabout" almost didn't exist. The original ending was going to be a disgusted Locke sitting on a bus filled with kids, realizing that the walkabout was nothing more than a tourist trap.
• Ep. 7 The Moth
  "The Moth" is the most viewed episode in Lost history with 23 million viewers.
• Ep. 7 The Other 48 Days
  Lance Reddick was the producers initial choice to play Mr. Eko, he later appeared in the series as Matthew Abaddon.
• Ep. 23 Live Together, Die Alone
  After the season 2 finale, Matthew Fox revealed he knew how the show would end.
• Ep. 10 Tricia Tanaka Is Dead
  The Dharma van from "Tricia Tanaka is Dead" sold at the lost auction for over 40'000 dollars.
• Ep. 22 Through the Looking Glass
  In a podcast producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse refered to the episodes ending twist as a "snake in a mailbox" because it would be as surprising as opening your mailbox to find a snake there.
• Ep. 3 The Economist
  With the exception of a few shots (Sun meeting Widmore in a unussually sunny London being the exception) all scenes that took place from Australia to the desert of Tunisia to war-stricken country of Iraq - all of these scenes were filmed in Oahu, Hawaii. Some shots required ice to be added the streets to compensate as snow (As in the Season 4 "The Economist") others required taking as much debri as the producers could find and adding it to torn down building to recreate the streets of Iraq.
• Ep. 13 There's No Place Like Home (2)
  Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse referred to season 4's plot twist as the "frozen donkey wheel", a literal description of the twist itself.
• Ep. 13 There's No Place Like Home (2)
  Two additional ending were shot with Desmond and Sawyer being in the coffin instead of Locke.