So many series are released that it is very difficult to keep up with all of them, so let’s not even talk about productions from a few years ago that didn’t make much noise at the time. That was the case of ‘The lost room’, a science fiction miniseries that was born with the vocation of having more seasons but that It was cancelled, among other reasons, because it was too complicated to explain what it had.
The problems he had
Created by Christopher Leone and Laura Harkcom, ‘The Lost Room’ was released in the United States in 2006, being one of Syfy’s big bets of that year. In fact, its creators already had many ideas about how to continue the story, but the reception it received from the audience was not as expected, so just six months after its launch it was already known that the second season would not go ahead. .
However, some still remembered her years later. Proof of this is that already in 2009, Dave Howepresident of Syfy at the time, highlighted that they tried to develop the concept of the series, but in the end they did not find the right key to continue with ‘The Lost Room’:
I know we tried to develop it as a series, but I think we had a hard time closing the deal. I’m flipping through the development report now. Yeah, I don’t think it’s in development. No it’s not. I think it was a concept. It’s interesting actually. It was a concept that we really loved. And if I’m honest, I think we’ve done better on Warehouse 13.
‘Warehouse 13’ was released that same 2009 and will revolve around two United States government agents who are sent to a Warehouse where peculiar gadgets are awaited. It is a bit as if a series had been made around the place where Indiana Jones save the Lost Ark at the end of the mythical first adventure of the saga starring Harrison Ford.
Instead, ‘Lost Room’ tells the story of a room in which a strange incident that took place years ago led to its disappearance and also the disappearance of all its contents. A detective (peter krause) who is investigating a murder finds her and discovers that the objects inside have special properties, but everything gets complicated when her daughter (elle fanning) disappears into that room. In its cast also participated Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Ewen Bremner and Chris Bauer.
That’s where the problems arose for Howe.since according to him “The big problem we faced with ‘Lost Room’ is that it was very difficult, as a concept, even though we loved it, to market it in one sentence or less, because it was too complicated to explain to everyone that there was some kind of missing room, a key lost, etc, etc. And the thing about the objects was that their arbitrary powers were also problematicThat’s where he thinks ‘Warehouse 13’ comes out on top.
However, we must not forget that ‘The Lost Room’ barely had three 90 minute episodes -although for its DVD edition it was decided to divide it into six chapters-, so in its own way it was a kind of appetizer for a larger universe that we will never get to know. And it’s a pity, since its creators commented in 2010 that the idea was “continue with the story of the key. We would have a different protagonist, so new characters would appear, keeping the secondary ones.” and “the idea was that once you assign powers to these objects, explore their impact in the real world. We always wanted to give it a realistic approach with a noir touch instead of a superhero or superpowered story.“.
Hope for the fans was reborn that same year when its creators announced that they would make a comic for season 2. Its launch was scheduled for 2011, but in 2012 it was announced that its development was slower than expected because Leone and Harkcom were busy with other projects. In 2013 the final blow came, since the comic was completely paralyzed and we have never heard from him again.
Alas, ‘Lost Room’ is not currently available on streaming in Spain. At the time, it could be seen through Cuatro and it was released on DVD, but that edition has been out of print for years. Furthermore, it has never been released on blu-ray in any country in the world.
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