THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND SHOWRUNNER ZACK ESTRIN LOOKS BACK ON THE FAMILY JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME AS THE FINAL SEASON OF LOST IN SPACE COMES HOME TO ROOST
WORDS: DARREN SCOTT
Brian Steele plays the imaginatively named Robot.
ACK ESTRIN IS blaming his children. The producer and writer was looking forward to a year off when the opportunity to revisit a beloved sci-fi franchise presented itself via Legendary and Netflix.
“I was like, ‘I don’t know, that cheesy 1965 series, I’m just not sure,’” he laughs.
A conversation around the dinner table got Estrin thinking. “My kids said, ‘Dad, what would happen if the four of us were lost in space?’ and I saw them get excited talking about what it would be like and would we survive.” He grins. “I definitely wouldn’t, apparently, but they said ‘We’ve never really been able to watch anything that you’ve written and this would be that chance.’ So that became what drew me to it. It’s actually my kids’ fault I ended up doing this show.”