Tag: Alcatraz

Jay West is a guest writer on Hero Complex with a focus on toys, collectibles and fan culture. While being caught up with work at my computer last week, a friend accepted a Fed Ex package for me at my door. My friend, knowing that I’m a collector of movie-related collectibles, asked if I’d ordered some kind of vintage, movie tie-in lunchbox. I understood the question when I saw the battered metal box with the creaking hinged top. There was a letter inside with this message: Dear Jay West, We invite you to inspect these artifacts from Alcatraz. Over the next few months, we will be looking to you, and your audience, to help us uncover the mysteries of the island. Should your careful examination of the contents of this box lead you to any new discoveries, we urge you to share with ...

“Alcatraz” is happy to be a little bit “Lost.” At Comic-Con International, show-runner Elizabeth Sarnoff said the new drama’s creators “totally embrace” its similarity to “Lost.”  It’s not that surprising, considering she was a producer on that show, and both series are from J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot. “Certainly there’s no better show” than “Lost,” Sarnoff said after screening the “Alcatraz” pilot episode Saturday evening in Ballroom 20. But “we’re our own show. We want to do our own thing…. We’re thrilled to be doing something else that will hopefully be somewhere near as entertaining.” “Alcatraz” tells the story of 256 of the country’s most notorious murderers, rapists and thieves who vanish from Alcatraz in 1963, only to turn up one by one in present-day San Francisco — unaged and ready to commit more crimes. A detective (played by ...