A few years ago, there was a TV pilot for a show that was never made. I mean the pilot was made but it never turned into a TV. Not that the network aired a pilot that had never been made.
In any event, it featured a bunch of people who did not get along very well, and all of whom had secrets, marooned on an island. I forget if it was a plane crash or a shipwreck.
So on the island some of them are killed by mysterious things in the jungle – naturally the island was large and mostly covered in dense jungle.
The survivors discover an abandoned and ruined laboratory complex on the island that apparently was into genetic experimentation and the nasties they made revolted killed (and ate) the scientists and then fled into the jungle.
And the marooned people were stuck on this island with the monsters but without a convent coffee shop.
But it never got made into a show. The pilot/movie airs every now and then on ScFi.
I don’t think the creators of “Lost” stole this idea. The idea of being marooned someplace far from home with monsters is fairly classic. But it interesting that in the decade or so since that other pilot was made, society has shifted just enough to give a show like this a reasonable chance.
In any event, it featured a bunch of people who did not get along very well, and all of whom had secrets, marooned on an island. I forget if it was a plane crash or a shipwreck.
So on the island some of them are killed by mysterious things in the jungle – naturally the island was large and mostly covered in dense jungle.
The survivors discover an abandoned and ruined laboratory complex on the island that apparently was into genetic experimentation and the nasties they made revolted killed (and ate) the scientists and then fled into the jungle.
And the marooned people were stuck on this island with the monsters but without a convent coffee shop.
But it never got made into a show. The pilot/movie airs every now and then on ScFi.
I don’t think the creators of “Lost” stole this idea. The idea of being marooned someplace far from home with monsters is fairly classic. But it interesting that in the decade or so since that other pilot was made, society has shifted just enough to give a show like this a reasonable chance.
(okay, probably just me...)
