Executive Producer of <cite>Lost</cite>, <cite>Heroes</cite> Keen on Games Crossovers

Wonderland has posted a revealing interview with Jesse Alexander, conducted during the recent Hollywood & Games Summit. Alexander currently commands mad geek cache, having served as executive producer on shows like Lost, Heroes, and Alias. He was actually involved in Alias when the ill-received game adaptation was released, and he shared his thoughts on the wrongheaded processes that brought about its failure. The transcription is pretty raw:

The alias console game came about because the media company who owned the license wanted to make a few more dollars so it sold the license to a game company. It didn’t really fulfil the promise of the medium, it was early days, but we tried. We were in that license area where they know they can sell a certain number of titles, and you only get a certain number of resources and money… thank god that’s changed.

I'd like to take his word for it, but I think we'll have to wait for companies like Brash Entertainment to show their hands before we can judge is stuff has truly changed. Alexander, though, seems committed:

Games are a huge part of my life. Any IP I’m involved in, I’m thinking about the gamespace.

A Heroes game is a no-brainer, and while we've seen neither hide nor hair of it, we know that Ubisoft is developing a *Lost *game in Montreal.
My big concern is whether these games can recreate what it is about these series that compels us to begin with. Self-important TV critics like to talk about how Lost is game-like in the way that it demands active participation in what's historically been a passive experience.
Well, when that world is transplanted onto a medium in which agency is a given, what's the hook going to be?

Hollywood & Games: An Interview with Jesse Alexander [Wonderland]