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* The ornate tattoos on Jack's shoulder are Matthew Fox's own.
* The original name of Charlie's band Drive Shaft was The Petting Zoo. This had to be changed, however, when it transpired that there really is a band called The Petting Zoo. The band's one hit, "You All Everybody" is largely inspired by the [[Oasis]] song "Cigarettes and Alcohol".
* The fateful journey, Oceanic Flight 815 (Sydney to Los Angeles), flew on September 22nd 2004. This was the pilot episode's
* The song Juliet listens to in Season 3 is "Downtown" by Petula Clark. However, the CD case Juliet pulls the disc from is from Talking Heads' ''Speaking in Tongues'' album and the CD that she puts in the stereo has the serial number "JN 94743", which belongs to the album ''Okemah and the Melody of Riot'' by Son Volt.
* Jorge Garcia was the first person cast for the series.
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* Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje came up with his own character's name, "Mr. Eko", while he and the writers were developing the character.
* Although in the cast list Sun is listed as having her husband's last name of Kwon, in real life it's highly unusual for Korean women to take their husband's last name.
* The series began development in January 2004 when Lloyd Braun, then head of ABC, ordered a script that fused the concepts of the film ''[[Cast Away]]'' and the popular reality TV show ''[[Survivor]]''. Jeffrey Lieber was tasked with writing the pilot, but Braun was unimpressed with the initial effort and subsequent rewrites and he contacted J.J. Abrams, whose series ''[[Alias]]'' was a hit for the network. Although initially hesitant, Abrams gave it a go in collaboration with Damon Lindelof. Their script was greenlit, but because it had been commissioned so late in the 2004 development cycle it was under very tight deadlines. Ironically, before the pilot aired Lloyd Braun was sacked by ABC's parent company, Disney - for greenlighting such an expensive and risky project. Abrams only worked on the show for a handful of episodes in the first season before leaving Lindelof as show-runner; due to his lack of experience in running a network show, Lindelof asked former colleague and ''[[Nash Bridges]]'' show-runner Carlton Cuse to come aboard as co-show-runner of ''Lost''. The two served as show-runners for the remainder of it's run, and are primarily responsible for mapping out the ''Lost'' mythology.
* Evangeline Lilly was one of the last actors to be cast for the show, but the fact that she is a Canadian citizen gave the producers concern that she might not be able to obtain the appropriate U.S. employment visa that would grant her permission to stay in the country long enough to shoot the entire series. They pushed back all of Kate's scenes when they were shooting the pilot, just to be sure that they could get the proper employment visa, a category "O-1" for "aliens of extraordinary ability in arts, science, education, business or athletics" for Lilly. As her body of work as an actor was not extensive at the time she was cast, they had a difficult time proving to the USCIS (formerly known as the INS) that Lilly was deserving of this classification as an "artist of extraordinary ability". It wasn't until they had shot almost every scene without the Kate character that she was finally granted the O-1 visa and signed on. That same day she was put on a plane in Canada and flown directly to Hawaii for the shooting.
* Originally, Michael Keaton was cast as Jack. In the first draft of the script, Jack was to be killed by the monster after they arrived at the cockpit, with Kate then becoming the main protagonist. ABC told the producers that they shouldn't kill off the hero so soon in the series and the script was changed. After the change, Michael Keaton backed out of the role since he did not want to commit to a regular series.
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* Desmond's full name is "Desmond David Hume". David Hume was a Scottish philosopher who rote extensively on the subject of free will vs. predetermination.
* Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse told ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine that the names of the characters Daniel Faraday and George Minkowski are references to the scientists Michael Faraday and Hermann Minkowski, respectively. Michael Faraday was a physicist and chemist who contributed to our understanding of electromagnetism, while his fictional namesake is a physicist whose experimental work had involved magnetism. Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician and experimental physicist whose work helped explain Einstein's special theory of relativity in the context of four dimensional space-time (which often figures in postulations and theories about how time travel might work), while his fictional namesake actually is a time traveler.
* One of the key questions with the character Walt's casting were problems that arose concerning the proposed timeline on the show. While the series moves slowly through time and only weeks have passed on the show, the actual filming has stretched over two years. When originally cast, Walt was portrayed as a 10-year-old boy but, after two seasons, he no longer looked 10. The show's writers dealt with this at the end of season two, by sending Michael and Walt [[Put on a Bus|away from the island toward supposed rescue]]. Walt reappeared in
* As the early drafts did not feature several of the characters who eventually appeared in the pilot, or had them appear very differently, many of the actors wound up auditioning for the parts of Kate and Sawyer. Yunjin Kim impressed the casting director but was deemed not right for the role of Kate, so Abrams and Lindelof created the character of Sun specifically for her, as well as the character of Jin to give her a foil. Dominic Monaghan and Matthew Fox both auditioned for the role of Sawyer, who was written as a slick city conman at the time: as mentioned above, the part of Charlie was rewritten to suit Monaghan, while Fox later re-auditioned for the part of Jack once it had been decided that Jack would be a series regular rather than a [[Sacrificial Lamb]]. The part of Sawyer was rewritten to its current incarnation based on the strength of Josh Holloway's audition.
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