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Damon Lindelof is the cover story for this week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter, one of the American entertainment industry's two main trade magazines.

Key points:

* He has two $200 million films coming out this summer in 'Star Trek into Darkness' and 'World War Z' starring Brad Pitt and Matthew Fox, he is making a pilot for HBO called 'The Leftovers' with Peter Berg and has another upcoming film called 'Tomorrowland' co-written by Jeff Jensen from 'Entertainment Weekly', directed by Brad Bird and starring George Clooney and Hugh Laurie
* The year that 'Lost' premiered was the most miserable in his life and he tried to quit many times
* His atheist father had just died, so much of the Jack-Christian relationship/timeline was based on his relationship with his father and Damon's feelings
* He just turned forty and his son is now six
* He enjoys following Justin Bieber on Twitter
* After 'Lost' ended, he caught up on 'The Wire', 'Friday Night Lights', 'Battlestar Galactica', 'Justified' and 'Breaking Bad'
* He did a lot of press for 'Prometheus' because Ridley Scott did not want to
* Brad Pitt was once attached to 'Prometheus', so he brought him over to 'World War Z' because it did not have an ending
* He received between $200 000 and $300 000 a week for rewriting 'World War Z'
* He got a job in writing television from his friend Julie Plec (producer of 'Dawson's Creek' and 'The Vampire Diaries')
* Damon still loves the ending of 'Lost' and stands by it
* He reads everything written about him and his work
* He would love to work on 'Star Wars', but will not because it will be too hard on him if it is not well-received and he is blamed

You can read the full article here.

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