Of all the "Lost"-related infonalia (that's a new word I've JUST coined - for "information paraphernalia"; you may use it if you like) out of Comic-Con the past few days, I believe the most interesting tidbit is this: Could Mr. Eko return?
The possibility was raised during an "EW"-sponsored discussion with Darlton (Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof) who explained (as I believe they did at TCA) that being dead in the "Lost" universe doesn't actually mean being "dead" in the everyday universe. Of course, "Lost" fans well know this but the applications as far as return appearances by the dearly departed haven't been fully explored. When asked whether Mr. Eko -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, or Triple A -- might come back, Cuse almost seemed to hold out the possibility: “Hawaii was not his bag. Real life intervened and forced us to end the arc of that character much sooner than we would have liked.”
It wasn't his bag because he was arrested and thrown in jail for one night (released next morning; no charges; didn't have a license) and -- I believe -- he had family problems back home in England, too. He was written out, or -- to be exact -- smoked by the Smoke. But as fans know, Mr. Eko's storyline ended before its time; there is much to be resolved, much to be explored. He was a great "Lost" character and his absence remains keenly felt.
What's Triple A up to? He'll star in a live-action "GI Joe" and he's also in Sundance's Annenberg Fellows Program, for which he produced an autobiographical film, titled "Farming," about how "a young African boy abandoned by his parents desperately searches for love and belonging within a brutal skinhead subculture where violence becomes his only companion." Should be out sometime this year.
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