Just curious. I have heard a lot that this island at the end was the one from Lost. However, given Stephen Sommers' absolute love of classic horror films (and now, apparently cartoons), did anyone else think that this was Skull Island? Home of King Kond?
Does anyone have a link to any Sommers interviews regarding this film? Any idea what he thinks about it and a possible future?
It can't be the island from lost, the Deep rising island had an active volcano on it, the Lost island doesn't have any volcano active or dormant.
Remeber this takes place in the China Sea, similar/weird stuff happens there just like in the Bermuda triangle.
We're all in strung out shape, but stay frosty, and alert.
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Obviously they were at least half-hoping for a sequel with this ending. Does anyone think they're hinting that the island is full of more 'deep rising' creatures, or are we to think that it's something completely unprecedented and new? In what direction would a sequel have gone? I'd totally watch it, anyway.
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We all know tha the island was able to move through time and space. Maybe it travelled from the future, where from some unexplained reason in the "Lost" universe, monsters have invaded the island, to the past where the 3 survivors end up.
shareYep, I figure there would have been a sequel had the film been a smash hit, much like Emmerich's GODZILLA was intended as a trilogy of films (hence the setup with the egg at the end) but because of the flop, that idea was dropped.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.
I don't think they were ever really expecting a sequel. It was just another homage to the kind of b-movies this film was styled on.
share"the Lost island doesn't have any volcano active or dormant."
Yes it does. It has at least one. Olivia, the Dharma schoolteacher, was teaching the class (including young Ben Linus) about the volcano and how it used to be active.
By Grabthar's Hammer...what a savings.
Anyway, all in all I think the ending is just supposed to be a clever tongue-in-cheek moment.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.
I'm guessing that the majority of the people making comparisons, watched Lost before seeing Deep Rising, because Deep Rising came first. If anything, the island from Lost was the one from Deep Rising. Not the other way around.
Anyway, the island is not the one from Lost. This movie came out in 1998. Lost was conceived and started airing in 2004. The influences of Lost came from the game Myst. Myst came out in 1993. Whether Stephen Sommers got inspiration for that ending from Myst or not, I do not know. There are similarties but it all seems to be just coincidence. There are no connections there.
Whether or not the island was supposed to be a reference to Skull Island since yes, Sommers is a huge fan of classic horror, I do not know either.
It's possible that the ending is just supposed to be a clever tongue-in-cheek moment as "CasseroleWorshipper" said.
Also, as others have said, there is another possibility that it could have been trying to set up a possible sequel, which never happened to due to the film bombing.
There's no clear answer.
There might have been something mentioned about it on the Commentary for the DVD but unfortunately, I do not own it.
I found myself thinking that it was Monster Island, the place where Godzilla, Mothra, and all the other classic monsters came from.
shareThis is old but I think that general area of the sea was where mutated sea creatures were and different creatures never found that had evolved to be the top of the food chain.
"I think I liked it better when I thought Sylar ate brains."
I spoke to Sommers once and asked about a DR sequel - he thought it was hysterical that after all the movies he's directed people he met all over the world still recognize him as the director of Deep Rising. He didn't bag on it, and said that the script for a sequel was written years ago, never financed and was essentially the same as the first season of Lost. Considering that he managed to stretch decent B-movie mojo across two Mummy movies, it's a damn shame he didn't get a crack at monster island.
Regarding the inspiration for Lost, versions of the island purgatory / emotional catalyst - supernatural or otherwise - have been floating around tv for a long time. It would be a bit unbelievable that the creators hadn't seen Haunts of the Very Rich or Aaron Spelling's early series, The New People. If they did lift the mysteries and tricks from a video game, they did bang up job of integrating it. Not so much a game as an old-school puzzle.
I got a King Kong vibe out of it.
sharehe thought it was hysterical that after all the movies he's directed people he met all over the world still recognize him as the director of Deep Rising.
The Land that Time forgot?-Volcano
Jurrasic Park-T-Rex breaking thru the forest?
It was to suggest that not only was there scary life in the surrounding ocean, but also on land. The movie was set in some uncharted part of the South China Sea. Scary, carnivorous predators running amock.
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