Wondered why Mr Eko was not in the final episode of Lost? No, neither did we. To be honest, it did not even cross our minds until we read that he wasn’t there on another blog.
Amazing really how we missed him. He is, after all, a huge black guy armed with a very dodgy Nigerian accent and a huge club with psalms carved on to it.
Anyway, apparently, it had nothing to do with the fact that Brit actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje wanted enough cash to sink a boat owned by Charles Widmore just to appear.
It was actually because he was too busy in Canada filming the much-anticipated prequel to John Carpenter?s 80s gore classic The Thing, about a, errrr, thing that kills dogs and people and stuff.
Hopefully, his character, ?Derek’, will fare slightly better than the last time he faced a monster. The last time we saw Mr Eko he was having the crap kicked out of him by The Smoke Monster.
But with a name like Derek, he?ll be lucky if he gets past the first 30 minutes.
As well as Akinnuoye-Agbaje, also starring in The Thing prequel, directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr, will be Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Joel Edgerton and Ulrich Thomsen.
Joel Edgerton gave a few hints, which, unless you have seen the original (who hasn't) won't mean a great deal.
?Whoever?s familiar with the film knows that very early on in the original the two Norwegian guys seem to have become crazy. One is blown up in a helicopter and the other one gets shot by the Americans and in order to find out why they went crazy, Kurt Russell goes in a helicopter to see and question the Norwegian base and when he gets there it's been decimated and they find the carcass of this ?Thing?. And this story tells what happened to the Norwegian base.?
The film is due to be released next year.
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