Airport destroys original Lost scenes by XRaying film
Ooops! Agents at the Honolulu airport accidentily xrayed original film that was shot for Lost, destroying all the scenes contained within the film for upcoming episodes of Lost, which were the only original copies of those scenes.
Film from ABC’s hit show “Lost” was ruined when security employees at the Honolulu International Airport accidentally X-rayed the canisters despite warnings labels asking them not to.
The show’s crew had to reshoot the scenes because there were no copies.
“This is the first time anything like this has happened,” said state Film Commissioner Donne Dawson, adding that steps have been taken to prevent a repeat of the incident.
The loss will not affect the broadcast schedule for the popular show, according to co-executive producer Jean Higgins.
Higgins declined to say how much the gaffe cost ABC.
No word on what scenes were reshoot… but it raises the interesting question of whether any scenes were changed when they were required to be reshoot because of spoilers released. It wouldn’t be the first time that scenes are reshoot because of spoiler buzz surrounding upcoming episodes, although granted, it usually isn’t because the airport staff screwed up and destroyed it!
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February 11th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Sheesh. I wonder if they are going to say later which scenes were on the tape and if anything was changed because of it… to the scenes that is, not the airport regs!