"The Leftovers Won’t Be Like Lost—It’ll Have an Ending" Topic

"I've had unusual luck with adaptations of my novels. With Election, I handed my manuscript over to director Alexander Payne and he made this amazing movie—true to the book but with a heightened satiric sensibility. I really loved the film that Todd Field made of Little Children; it's darker than my novel, but it's erotically charged, morally provocative, and packs a real dramatic punch. Still, turning a novel into a film can be limiting—forcing a big, complex story into a small box. And watching all the great TV over the past 10 years, I started to think, wouldn't it be fantastic to have a bigger box? The Leftovers was my first opportunity to venture into long-form television, and I was lucky enough to have Damon Lindelof, cocreator of Lost, as a partner.

The Leftovers is a book that grew out of another book. While doing research for my novel The Abstinence Teacher, I kept bumping into the evangelical Christian concept of the Rapture. I'm not a religious person, and I found myself thinking about the Rapture not as a theological concept but as a powerful metaphor for getting older, for living with loss and mystery. That idea turned into The Leftovers, where 2 percent of the world's population has just disappeared without any explanation. There's no scientific or religious narrative that can make sense of the event; it just seems random. I wanted to tell an apocalyptic story that didn't involve a nuclear holocaust or a zombie invasion. The Leftovers takes place in a world that looks exactly like the world we live in now. It's not about how we survive when there's no food and no clean water, but how we endure when everything we believed has been, if not obliterated, then seriously challenged…"
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Armand

They showed more than 2% of the population vanishing in the trailers. I just cant suspend my disbelief of the premise to watch this show.