"It's not like we're leaving anything that we were going to resolve left unresolved so that people can go see it in a movie theater," said Lindelof. "We worked so hard to basically do something that we didn't feel had ever been done before, which is taking a heavily mythologized show and arguing for an end date three years out. So we feel like it's kind of a slap in the face to all of the fans ... [for us] to not deliver an ending."

"There obviously have been a lot of conversations with ABC and Disney about the Lost brand, and I think it would be naïve to assume that they will not want to do something downstream with [it]," Cuse said.