Former ‘Lost’ Scribe Shares More Tales From Writers Room; “I Do Hope Future Abusers Will Be Deterred”

Javier Grillo-Marxuach , ‘LOST’, (from left): Jeremy Davies, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Elizabeth Mitchell, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Rebecca Mader, Jorge Garcia, Henry Ian Cusick, Naveen Andrews, Ken Leung, After his quotes about writing for Lost appeared in a Vanity Fair book excerpt Tuesday, veteran scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach doubled down via social media by sharing more of his experience on the ABC drama. Grillo-Marxuach, who is described in Maureen Ryan’s Hollywood book as “the only person from the show’s original nucleus of writers still in the writers room in season two,” posted his own essay that he hopes will deter “future abusers.” “If Lost is so great a work of art as to continue to be a topic of discussion after all these years, then it is cruel to expect those of us who were there to remain silent as to how the show was made,” Grillo-Marxuach blogged. “ Lost succeeded because of the sustained contribution of many, many artists, many of them geniuses in their own right, and many of whom were treated quite badly and then disappeared in favor of ‘auteur showrunner’ hagiography.” Related Story Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse Accused Of Fostering Toxic Environment On ‘Lost’ Set In New Book The book titled Burn it Down : Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood comes out June 6 and apparently seeks to expose “patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood while shedding light on problematic situations at companies like Lucasfilm and shows like Saturday Night Live, The Goldbergs, Lost, Sleepy Hollow, Curb Your Enthusiasm and more.” Much of the excerpted chapter about Lost addresses the management style of Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse , who served as co-showrunners over the drama’s memorable six-year run on ABC. Both men went on to enjoy continued success in TV; Lindelof created the Emmy-winning HBO drama Watchmen — which ended up enlightening many viewers on the Tulsa race massacre — while Cuse created (with John Ridley) Five Days at Memorial, which told the harrowing true story of a New Orleans hospital that […]

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