J.J. Abrams
8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 29, 2023 by J.J. Abrams · across every show →
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Dec 29, 2023 negative
Dec 29, 2023 positive
Dec 29, 2023
ABC greenlit the 'Lost' outline, demanding a finished pilot in 12 weeks
“I got a call that Saturday from Lloyd Braun, who had pitched this thing to me, he was the head of ABC at the time, who said, it's greenlit, we're doing it. And I was like, what the hell are you talking about? And he said, we need the completed pilot done in 12…”
Dec 29, 2023 positive
Abrams: Bad Robot uses cross-division reviews to catch creative mistakes internally
“One of the things we're doing lately is saying, can we use the different divisions within Bad Robot to be additive and comment on what the others are doing, so that if something is happening in theater, what do the TV people think about that, and what do they …”
Dec 29, 2023
Bad Robot's famous logo was an After Effects placeholder made by Abrams
“So I had them both say, bad robot, together, into my laptop. I put that on the little animation in After Effects that I did, and I turned it in, I thought, I'll change it later. And I just never changed it, and it just became the company.”
Dec 29, 2023 neutral
Dec 29, 2023
Kathleen Kennedy hired 15-year-old J.J. Abrams to restore Steven Spielberg's films
“She had this idea to give those two movies, instead of giving them to, say, the Smithsonian, she had the idea of calling two utter strangers that were 15 years old. We weren't 30 years old between us, and she gave us these movies that needed to be repaired. Wo…”
Dec 29, 2023
Abrams designed The Boring Company logo and produced its first hat
“I went back to the bad robot office, and I thought I had an idea for a really boring logo for the boring company, so I made up the logo, and I gave it to our workshop, and I said, is there any way we could make this hat today? Beth in the workshop took the log…”