Comments on: Brian Vaughan makes cryptic ‘official statement’ about Lost departure

By: Teresa Jusino

Teresa Jusino — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:34:02 +0000

I was so sorry to hear about this! I’m going to miss his presence in the final season, as he was responsible for some of the best episodes on that show! But I’m glad he’s got SO much going on that he gets to dump something like Lost!

By: mgs

mgs — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:25:26 +0000

This was so funny how he responded right away to Olivia’s fantasy!!

By: Abhay

Abhay — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:37:44 +0000

I sure hope this means there’s movement on Roundtable. I’m not really a fan of his comic book work particularly– some of it’s nice, I suppose. But Roundtable is just a terrific screenplay. Terribly entertaining– I remember bits of it every so often, fondly. A special effects family-friendly adventure movie, sure– it doesn’t reinvent the wheel. But it’s witty and fun, with loads of personality. I hope they find a way to get it made.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:23:54 +0000

Has BKV had any new pictures taken in the last decade?

By: Ravn

Ravn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:37:46 +0000

Sweet! Maybe now he’ll come back to Runaways

By: ZooBot23

ZooBot23 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:22:59 +0000

James, you are dumb; Outgoing Loner, YOU are a GENIUS!

By: James

James — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:13:05 +0000

Greener pasture? Olivia Munn is an arid tundra where no good or pure thing can grow. A cursed waste where the shapeless things from before history bubble and fester. She is damnation.

By: Outgoing Loner

Outgoing Loner — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:00:08 +0000

We can confirm that BKV either reads her blog, or was forwarded the post. Yeah, networking. And he should write a new Big Trouble in Little China in which the green eyed goddess of pie does battle-times against the foreign ones.

By: Justin of A

Justin of A — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:41:15 +0000

Olivia Munn is om nom nom nomilicious

By: str!p

str!p — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:39:23 +0000

one thing for sure.. he cannot resist Olivia C. Munn

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:21:43 +0000

Sorry to see him go, but Lost will be fine. Cuse and Lindelof have known how it will end for quite some time, and I’m sure they’re going to be heading the vast majority of the scripts as the show heads into the home stretch. No big deal… Anyone remember that Jeph Loeb was with the show back in (I think) its second season? OK, Loeb is no BKV (duh!)… But still. Lost is going to have a great final season (I’m crossing my fingers, but confidently).

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:54:08 +0000

What’s the difference, the show was finite anyway. Please write more comics. We actually recognize your name on the books unlike half the TV watching population who see it in the Lost credits.

By: Jordan T.

Jordan T. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:01:49 +0000

sigh…guess this means i’ll never get that BKV Lost DVD episode commentary i’d been hoping for. :p

By: Fanboy

Fanboy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:58:02 +0000

Perhaps he’s going to finish the script for Runaways (if he hasn’t already) so that Marvel can shelve it until the Avengers movie is out and Joss Whedon is ready to direct it. And now I’m depressed that its gonna be so long till this movie sees the light of day.

By: ZooBot23

ZooBot23 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:37:45 +0000

Well, on the Season 5 finale of LOST, MR. Vaughn was listed as an Executive Producer.
Being the smart guy that Mr. V is…combined with the quick ascent amongst the LOST crew…and the greener pastures comment by Mr. Lindelof…I’d say that Mr. Vaughn is most definitely working on some (more) great stuff and there isn’t anything untoward going on, here.
Right Ms. Munn?? Right???

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:27:59 +0000

That was quick.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:05:57 +0000

SM,

I do hope you’re talking about MrWesley and not this WGA member.

By: SM

SM — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:52:44 +0000

People on these boards seem to have no conception of what writers do on television shows.

Brian K. Vaughn started on “Lost” as a co-producer. He then became a producer. Both of these titles have nothing whatsoever to do with producing. These are MID-LEVEL writing titles. Not bottom of the barrel by any stretch — but, likewise, not actually in charge of anything.

To be clear, Brian K. Vaughn was not ‘showrunning’ anything. He did not leave his “distinctive mark” on anything.

He may have contributed — even contributed greatly. But, to use the hoary phrase, at the end of the day, his contributions were ALWAYS filtered through the judgment of a REAL showrunner with, most likely, an EXECUTIVE producer credit.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:50:13 +0000

@MrWesley

Nope, Lindelof and Cuse have still been showrunners since before BKV’s arrival; he was initially a “story consultant” (a title he retained until his departure) before becoming “consulting producer” and staff writer.

By: Tom Daylight

Tom Daylight — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:18:53 +0000

PS It wasn’t announced during a podcast! It was a transcript from a live Q&A session with fans at the Curzon cinema in London, which DocArzt.com reproduced from another blog. Do your research!!!