"super 8" feature with j.j. abrams and kyle chandler interviews

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Deputy

Sheriff

|ack

Lamb,

played

by

Kyle

Chandler

("Fri-

day

Night

Lights").

Chandler

responded

viscerally

to

a

scene that

echoed

one from

his

own

childhood:

Lamb,

fed

up

with

joe

fooling

around

with

this movie

stuff,

and up

to his

ears in

evasive

Air Force

offi-

cials and

a

panicked

town

with

missing

people

and

electrical

outages,

orders

|oe

to

stay

home.

And

]oe,

for

the first

time in

his

life,

stands up to

his

father

and

says,

"No."

'

"I

was L4in1979,"

Chandler

recalls.

"My

father died

Jan

9,

1980. There

was a moment

whenl

was ayoungmanthat

I

had

said'no'to my father.

And

I

thank

God

I

had that

moment

tin

lifel because

in that

moment

lin

the

filml there

were

a

few

things that

came

from my fa-

thcr"

that

are strikinglyvisible

in Deputy

Lamb's

face. "First,

anger. Second,

confusion, But

the third

one was

-

and I'm

glad

to

this day

about

it,

and

I'm

45

-

there

was

a

little

bit of

respect

there

also. The moment

a father

sees

bis

son turn into

a

man,ifyouwill."

Abrams,

who was

B tnl979,

didn't

consciously

pattern

"Super

8" as

a latter-day

Spiel-

berg

science-fiction

film.

Still,

what

with

his

movie's

single-

parent,

close-knit

group

of

small-town

kids and

an extra-

terrestrial

alien

thing

that

wants to

go

home,

there's as

much

"E.T.

the Extra-Terrestri-

al" as there

is

"Alien" and

"The

Thing."

But

it

also was highly

person-

al.

Being

on

the set

"took

me

back

in

a

weird memory-sense

flashback

kind

of

way,"

Abrams

says. "And

I would

take time

in

between

setups

just walking around

in

a daze

looking

at all these

details"

from

that analog

era. "It

felt

so

much like

being in a waking

dream

of my

childhood."

tcxfqz,the

storGd former

prisoncn

a

rock

off

San

Franciicol

hai

such a-bold

on

the

public

imagination

tbat

it

cafl be

a two.week

wait for tickets

for

the

ferrv

ride

and tour.

And

"Losf'co-creator

J.J.

Abiaql$,

knowing

something

about islands

with

sto-

ries, is now

tlre

executiye

producer

of

"Alca'

traz,"

a Fo.x

dr44a

with an initial

llelisode

order and

a

planned

midseason

prerdeie.

Written

by

"Lost"

veteran Elizabth

Sarnoff,

it

posits

that on

March

21"

lXa, when

Alcatraz

closed and

its

prisoners

were set to

be

transported

elsewhere,

they were reclly

transported

elsewhere

-

because now

302

of

therrare

in

ZOtt,

and

judging

from killer

Jack

Sylvane (premiere-episode

guest

star

feffrey

Pierce),

they haven't

aged.

Now, San

Fran-

cisco

police

detective

Rebecca Madsen

(Sarahlones)

and Alcatraz

expert Dr. Diego

Jorge

Gapia

and

Sarah

Jones

"Doc"

Soto

(|orge

Garcia,'*h

on "Lost")

must uncover

wha

They're

either

helped or

hind

ous

government

official

Emer

(Sam

Neill)

and his chief

tech

(Parminder

Nagra).

Robert

F

IVladsen's

surrogate

uncle, a f

prison

guard.

What

may it

all mean?

It's

earlyto tell.

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