What the LOSTies are doing on Summer vacation

The break in between episodes this week got me to thinking about how there are only 3 more Wednesday nights remaining with new Lost episodes in all of 2009. We won’t see the 6th and final season until January 2010, and it will be much later this year before filming begins. So just what have Lost’s main cast members — past and present — been doing and what will they do with all that downtime?

Let’s have a look at what they’re up to, and where else they can be seen in the near future. (Note that Evangeline Lilly, Daniel Dae Kim, Terry O’Quinn, Henry Ian Cusick, Jeremy Davies, Ken Leung, and Michael Emerson are not currently listed as being involved in any other projects.)

Naveen Andrews
This Side of the Looking Glass (2010)
Set in New York City, the film centers on Charlie (Ian Holm), an aging writer who’s fame and health is rapidly fading. A professional killer named Abed (Andrews), posing as his caregiver, is sent to assassinate him under strict orders from the enigmatic Ben. (Wow, that sounds familiar.) The plot thickens when certain details are revealed to be far more intricate than a simple murder plot. Also starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Donald Sutherland, and Brendan Fraser.

Matthew Fox
Billy Smoke (2010)
Based on an upcoming comic book from Oni Press, the story is about an elite assassin who realizes his only way to find redemption is to rid the world of all assassins. Fox is so far the only actor attached to this still-in-development property.

Jorge Garcia
When We Were Pirates (2009)
A tight-knit group of friends, bound together by their love for playing pirate, discover that a childhood promise “written in blood” gives them all they need to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of life.

Josh Holloway
Stay Cool (2009)
An author (Mark Polish) who returns to his hometown to deliver a commencement address to a class of graduating high school students has to deal with his feelings for an old flame (Winona Ryder), as well as the advances of a student (Hilary Duff) who has the hots for him.

Yunjin Kim
The Unconditional (2009)
Sunny (Kim) and Hanna (Ye-seul Han) were inseparable best friends and popular in high school. But one’s mistake ruins the other’s early life and after years of misery, she seeks revenge.

Emilie de Ravin
The Perfect Game (2009)
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series. An ensemble class also includes Cheech Marin (“David Reyes,” Hurley’s father on Lost).
Public Enemies (July 1, 2009)
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. Starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.
Rogue’s Gallery (2009)
A battle ensues among groups of government spy teams in an underground facility after their boss is assassinated. Also starring Ving Rhames, Ellen Barkin, Jeffery Tambor, and Maggie Q.
The Chameleon (2010)
French production. An FBI Agent is hot on the tracks of Frédéric Bourdin who has taken up the identity of a woman’s long lost son completely convincing the police and the boy’s family of his identity. Also starring Famke Janssen, Nick Stahl, and Ellen Barkin.
Guardians of Ga’Hoole (July 23, 2010)
Animated. Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie’s, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga’Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie’s. Also starring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, and more.

Dominic Monaghan
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (May 1, 2009)
Indistructable mutant Wolverine seeks revenge against Victor Creed (aka, Sabertooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program. Starring Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber.
Pet (2011)
A psychological thriller about a man who bumps into an old flame and subsequently becomes obsessed with her, leading him to hold her captive underneath the animal shelter where he works.

Harold Perrineau
(Can currently be seen on the new ABC drama The Unusuals.)
Case 219 (2010)
A drama centered on the aftermath of a high school shooting from the perspective of three misfit teens.

Elizabeth Mitchell
V (2009)
Mitchell guest stars as Erica Evans in a modern remake of the 1980s saga about reptilian alien invaders come to Earth.

Maggie Grace
Malice in Wonderland (2009)
An American law student (Grace) in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that’s a million miles from home — Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she’s dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifers, by the enigmatic cab driver, Whitey. She needs to find out who she is, where she’s from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place.

Malcolm David Kelley
No Warning (2009)
“Death stalks us and watches our every move,” says 13-year-old Andre, reading his essay aloud to his schoolroom class. “That’s why we all live with no warning.” Andre, who lives with his mother and abusive stepfather, is a gifted writer, and avid reader with good grades. He is encouraged by his understanding teacher, Ms LaFluer, and adoring mother, Raquel, and believes his teacher when she tells her students, “You’re the ones who can make a difference.” But he cannot escape the every day dangers of living in his crime-ridden neighborhood, or the bad influence of his young friends, particularly Maurice, who comes from a dysfunctional, drug-ridden family, and already has criminal tendencies.
The Kings of Appletown (2009)
The Magic Carpet Adventures (2010)
When teens find an ancient carpet and unlock it’s power, it unexpectedly takes them back to ninth-century Baghdad.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer. Also starring Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Dennis Quaid, and Lost’s Said Taghmaoui (Caesar).
Farming (2010)
Nothing is yet known about this title, which Akinnuoye-Agbaje has written and will be directing himself.

Ian Somerhalder
Fireball (2009)
TV movie for the Scifi channel about a former hot-tempered football star turned convict who discovers in prison that he has the ability to create fire with his bare hands. He burns his way out of jail and seeks revenge against everyone who ever burned him. The authorities must find a way to put this fire out before more innocent people go up in flames.
How to Make Love to a Woman (2009)
Little is known about this big-screen comedy.
Vampire Diaries (2009)
TV movie, drama.

Michelle Rodriguez
Avatar (December 18, 2009)
The highly anticipated return of director James Cameron is a big-budget, 3D, CGI scifi epic about a future in which a paraplegic war veteran named Jake (Sam Worthington) is brought to an alien planet named Pandora, which is inhabited by a humanoid race called the Na’vi. War breaks out when the humans find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture. Also starring Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, and Giovanni Ribisi.

Cynthia Watros
Calvin Marshall (2009)
Calvin Marshall’s childhood dream of playing Major League Baseball is in serious jeopardy as he can’t seem to make the Bayford Bisons Junior College team. A poignant comedy about Calvin’s deferred dream and the people in his life who want him to succeed.

Rebecca Mader
Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
In Iraq, a desperate reporter named Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who claims to be a former secret U.S. military psychic soldier who was reactivated after 9/11. Mader stars as Helen Wilton, McGregor’s wife.

Nestor Carbonell
The Disembodied (2009)
A teenage girl, exploring the mysteries of “crossing over” after the sudden death of her mother, joins her friends in experimenting with the “choking game.” In doing so, she unknowingly opens a portal for The Disembodied and slowly grows into a sadistic terror, becoming increasingly more distant and frightening. Her widowed father, desperate to keep his only child safe, seeks the cause of his daughter’s extreme personality change by engaging an expert — a young female college professor — to help him explore the haunting truth of near-death experiences firsthand. They discover that the young girl’s soul has become trapped in some sort of purgatory and now, creatures from between the worlds of life and death have managed to invade and possess her body.

Sonya Walger
Flash-Forward (2009)
TV show for the Fall ‘09 season that chronicles the global chaos that ensues after everyone in the world passes out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds and has a vision of the future. It centers on newly sober Mark Banford (Joseph Fiennes), an FBI agent who is patching up his life and marriage. Walger plays Mark’s wife, Olivia, who’s disturbed by her vision of being in love with another man.
The Factory (October 22, 2010)
With the help of his partner, an obsessed cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. But when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops all professional restraint to get the killer.

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