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Video interview: J.J. Abrams (Armageddon, Lost)

Scott Myers

06 Sep 2008
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Video interview: J.J. Abrams (Armageddon, Lost)

He’s brought us movies such as:

Regarding Henry (1990)

Armageddon (1998)

Mission Impossible III (2006) 

But it’s on the TV side where J.J. Abrams has really made his mark:

Felicity

Alias

Lost

Those are three big hits. 

Courtesy of the fantastic lecture resource website TED, here is a wonderful chat with screenwriter-director-producer J.J. Abrams.


http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf

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