Update: It looks like the Peter Stormare rumours were indeed true - See this LINK in the Spoilers section. This along with the fact that Harold Perrineau was signed up leads me to suspect that this is a great source I've picked up and hopefully the Forest Whitaker rumour is also true.
One of my contacts at ABC has provided me with the following interesting casting news. This source has proved accurate in the past but he assures me this is legit. As I've not been able to verify this with my sources as of this time, I have to post this in the rumours section.
1) Negotiations with Harold Perrineau and Malcolm David Kelley are being made with Malcolm contract practically agreed and feelings are that agreement with Harold's people is very close.
2) Only one new actor will enter in the fixed cast, and the actor currently being sought for this role is Peter Stormare.
3) The producers have invited the actor Forest Whitaker to participate in two episodes at the start of the season.
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i heard that in the show forrest's brother is gonna wreck his v-dub that he bought from the fargo//prison break guy and blame it on the others...maybe i morphed fast imes at ridgemont high and those volkswagen commercials
While this might be true...I can't help but remember the rumors about Samuel L. Jackson playing the part of Bernard.
I would love to see Ghost Dog turn up on the Island! Let it be true!
Peter Stornmare did a great perfomance in Prison Break playing John Abruzzi & Forrest Whittaker did the same in The Shield playing Lt. Jon Kavanaugh. Both of them are great actors & they will make great bad guys.
On a side note. A while ago, I read somewhere, quite possibly on this site about an article on THE TEMPLE with Jack walking away from it with two dark skinned dudes escorting him. Could Forrest be one of these guys?
Forest Whitaker is perfect for Lost. I could see him as a guy who interrogates Michael for the location of the island and works for the bad people Ben was talking about in the finale. I could see Stormare as a member of the freighter, and hopefully he'll stick around for a while, I could see him and Sawyer not getting along at all.
as far as i rememver Peter Stormare is very good in playing Russian mafia guy/perfect russian accent/...so i can imagine there may be more Russian connectins coming in Lost's plot, someboby related to Bakunin
Good call silvanna. Is Kelvin's old hatch partner Radzinsky Russian or Polish? It would be cool if Radzisnky turned out to be alive & has done a Houdini trick & vanished lol
Yeah I can see Stormare being one of the guys on the Freighter & I agree with Hipster Doofus about Forest interrogating Michael; not just for infomation about the island but also about the ex Dharma folks that Ben wiped out.
There's gotta be more people that are being casted for Season 4, surely. What about that Yankee Minkowski bloke who spoke to Jack in the finale & some more beautiful women?
Edvard Radzinsky, check Wikipedia, is a russian writer that's focused on some conspiracy political stories.
If the rumors are true then YIPPEE!!
Slippery Pete!
i dont see forrest whitaker doing a t v show having just won an oscar this year. i read somewhere that the reason he left the shield so quickly this season was that he didnt want to do tv and wanted to do more movies.
Forest Whittaker = Future Walt.
Awesome!
I just love Forest Whitaker......I see almost another "Hurley" character. :Good Morning Vietman: is still my favorite movie with him.
Ghost Dog? You mean Vincent?
Wow these are both really bad@ss guys. Wonder if they will be apart of the "new force" arriving on the island?
Pickett and Pryce can't hold a candle to John Abruzzi.
i dont see forrest whitaker doing a t v show having just won an oscar this year. i read somewhere that the reason he left the shield so quickly this season was that he didnt want to do tv and wanted to do more movies.
Yeah. I'm sure that's why he did an (almost) season long story arc on ER last season. :p
Stormhare! He's the only part of the move Armageddon I liked! That'd be awesome... the Russian from Armageddon meeting the Russian from Lost... RUSSIANS!!! *squeals*
Peter Stormare is awesome! I would be very happy if this rumor is true. Fox's/Prison Break's loss would be ABC's/Lost's gain.
you sure he filmed that er guest spot after he won the oscar?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Forest Whitaker as the real Henry Gale...
Stormare in Fargo was one of my favorite recent performances by any actor, in any medium.
He would be an excellent addition to the cast.
I agree with you Radzinsky that there needs to be a few characters added for season 4. The problem with most of the season 3 new characters was that they were just part time and there to fill gaps like Paulo and Nikki.
Lost needs a bunch of new characters as people on the freighter and a few more beautiful women would be nice as well.
are you high roe?
Season 2 new characters: Libby, Eko, Ana-Lucia. None any good. All annoying. All dead now.
Season 3 introducees: Ben, Juliet, Richard Alpert, Tom
Only Tom is dead (though, we did see him a few times in season 2) and Ben, Juliet, and Richard Alpert are freaking awesome. Both characters and as actors.
Paulo/Nikki was a blowoff that had a failed plot-line. My expectation for what Nikki/Paulo was going to reveal and what actually occured were completely off the mark. I was hoping for neat behind-the-scenes 'from a different perspective' and learn new things... all we got was an entire episode that led to their death.
eko wasnt any good?
i think most lost fans would disagree with that
jake3988 said:"Season 2 new characters: Libby, Eko, Ana-Lucia. None any good. All annoying. All dead now."
WHAT????????
Annoying?Who?
jake,
I don't think I was high when I posted that comment although I may well have been. Anyway what was wrong with what I said?
Eko, Ana-Lucia and Libby were all good characters to introduce and I'm disappointed that they've all been killed off.
Ben was introduced in season 2 and Tom was brought in in the season 1 finale so they were hardly new characters for season 3. Paulo, Nikki and Juliet were the only new characters as Richard was only a part time character.
Thinking about the short pictures we saw of Jacob, could this be Peter's role? Their profiles are very similar.
I think Jacob should be played by John Malkovitch, I love that guy.
As for Forest, I think he will be one of the main people on the Freighter & is good at getting what he wants from people.
Stormare would be great as Mittelwerk. I'm having visions of The Big Lebowski here.
Whitaker, unlikely to do TV, would be excellent in any capacity, from Jacob to "Future" Walt, to a brother to Michael or a connection to Eko. That man is one of our great actors today.
If it's true, then I agree... Whitaker = Henry Gale. Especially after the producers mentioned Henry again at Comic-Con and said that we would learn about what happened between him and Ben this season. Could be a way to start season 4. Guy opening his eye, trapped in a hot air balloon with his wife who gets sick. Then along comes Ben and his words.
I am with u on that one four_toed_armenian about Whitaker playing Henry Gale - he would be perfect for the role.
Also I heard somewhere that there's a big twist in Rose & Bernard storyline for Season 4.
Also I was looking at Matthew Fox's films bio & he is making a film called Vantage Point with Whitaker starring in it. I just watched the trailer, it looks awesome!!