The version of "Lost" is not a particularly bestseller, compared to Sid's other bestsellers who can easily sell millions of copies, "Lost", which has been published for more than two years, has only sold more than 900,000 copies.

Sometimes I have to admit that some stories are more suitable for image expression than words, although the "poor sales" made Random House, which bought the book at a sky-high price, suffer a big loss. However, "Lost" has won a lot of well-known science fiction and book awards, including the Saturn Awards, which can be regarded as a typical case of applause.

Therefore, for the decision of Fire Lion TV to shoot the American drama version of "Lost", Random House is in favor of it with both hands and feet, as long as the series is popular, it can be said that it will in turn boost sales at that time.

However, in order to achieve the best results, "Lost" started filming directly in Hawaii, and spent $25 million in the first episode, which is already a small and medium-budget movie in Hollywood with such an investment.

In the crew of "Lost", this is only the investment in the first episode, of course, this sky-high cost is also due to the purchase of the entire retired Boeing 747 aircraft by the Fire Lion, as well as a large number of special effects shots in the first episode, and the series was filmed last year, and the filming was also at the end of 99.

Compared with the "historical" "Lost", the fire lion is now filmed earlier, and the other costs are fine, but the visual effects part is definitely sky-high now.

That's why the cost of the first episode will be even more exaggerated than "historical".

Although the original book is not as well-known as "24 Hours" and "Desperate Housewives", Fire Lion TV still marked "Saturn Award for Best Adapted Science Fiction Series" in the promotion!

Sci-fi series?

Many viewers were puzzled when they saw this slogan.

In the past American drama market, the most classic sci-fi series should be Fox TV's "The X-Files".

Because of the congenital limited cost of American dramas, the direction of sci-fi dramas is generally like "The X-Files", taking the direction of modern cult cult dramas.

And the style of science, fantasy, aliens, government, and conspiracy theories can be described as another rebellion of niche thinking against the mainstream craze.

So many viewers who haven't watched it are very confused about the positioning of "Lost", is this another conspiracy theory work that follows "The X-Files"?

And for Fox TV Network, the owner of "The X-Files", the timing chosen by Fire Lion to release "Lost" is definitely an extremely ruthless and insidious approach.

Because since the end of "The X-Files Season 7" in the spring of 2000, the actor of the show, David Duchouni, has just expired his performance contract with Fox. At that time, whether he will continue to star in "The X-Files" has become the focus of attention of all viewers of this show.

What's more serious is that because of this incident, even director and screenwriter Ricks Carter also said that if Du Chuni stopped acting, then he would have to pick a pick.

In the end, after difficult negotiations, although Fox got David Duchouni to agree to continue acting in "The X-Files Season 8" for half a season, he was no longer playing as a leading role, but as a supporting role.

Although the director finally agreed to stay, the huge change made many viewers unacceptable. In fact, this is like a drama like "Friends" or "The Big Bang Theory", where the protagonist suddenly changes in the middle of filming, and no one can stand it.

And "The X-Files" is now in its eighth season, with an average cost of almost $4 million per episode, which is already one of the highest costs in the current American drama.

And "Lost" dominated the headlines of big and small news at a sky-high cost of $25 million as soon as it came up, which of course made Fox Network executives very unhappy.

So, although Sid's original intention was to use "Lost" to snipe Warner Bros.'s "CSI Crime Scene Investigation", in Fox's view, this is to steal his job in "The X-Files".

A week after "Desperate Housewives", on Saturday prime time, the first episode of "Lost" finally premiered.

At the beginning of the episode, the crash plot only took a few minutes to bring people's attention and adrenaline to the highest, and then - crash!

When the protagonist wakes up from the buzzing and screaming, all viewers are presented with a never-before-seen purgatory on earth—plane wreckage scattered across the beach and terrified survivors running around.

Such a real and tense crash scene is definitely the first time in the history of American dramas!

Everyone's emotions were mobilized, and they nervously watched the protagonist Jack save the injured survivors, and finally 48 survivors survived. Everyone seems to have their own agenda, but that's just the beginning.

Just when everyone was about to forget that this was a sci-fi series, the first night of Lost, the pirate outback jungle was shaken and fluctuated with chilling screams.

At this time, all the audience immediately remembered - this is a science fiction American drama!

Next, in the midst of unease, the protagonist Jack and the apparent heroine Kate lead a team of volunteers into the interior of the island to find the cockpit scattered inside, hoping to use the radio above to contact the rescue.

As the viewing deepened, some nimble viewers soon discovered that "Lost" was very different from "The X-Files", or that "Lost" had a bit of the same flavor as the TV station's master reality show "Survivor".

In the context of the survival of the wild island, the huge "monsters" whose bodies are unknown and the survivors who have their own pasts and thoughts. This kind of sci-fi series in Jedi survival makes people feel an unprecedented sense of tension and empathy.

Until the end of the first episode, the surviving pilot was dragged out of the cockpit by an unknown creature, and died in a blur of flesh and blood on a tall tree, leaving only the three protagonists of the squad to escape.

The novel and tense background and suspenseful plot hang the audience's emotions from beginning to end until the end. A lot of people suddenly reacted - "Eh, is the episode over?"

Matching the excellent movie-going experience, the first episode of "Lost" also reached an excellent 18.65 million viewers for its premiere!

Whether it is a sci-fi series or a new American drama on Fire Lion TV, "Lost" has perfectly completed its task. In the season when "Friends" and Warner Bros. TV's "CSI" were not yet airing, Fire Lion TV used the double kill of "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" to complete a beautiful wolf pack tactic.

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