Damon Lindelof Damon Laurence Lindelof is a Hollywood writer and producer from Teaneck , New Jersey who worked with J . J . Abrams to produce , the eleventh film in the " Trek " franchise . " Star Trek " is Lindelof ' s first feature film project . Lindelof also produced and co - wrote the sequel with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman . In 2010 , the Producers Guild of America nominated both Lindelof and Abrams for the Darryl F . Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures for " Star Trek " . Career . " Lost " . He and Abrams are two of the creators and executive producers of the hit ABC television series " Lost " . They and the other producers of " Lost " ( including Bryan Burk ) received one of television ' s highest honors when " Lost " won the 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series . Lindelof and the producers of " Lost " also won the 2005 WGA ( Writers Guild of America ) Award for Best Dramatic Series and were later nominated for two more WGA Awards . In addition , they shared a Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic from the PGA ( Producers Guild Awards ) as well as two more PGA nominations and a BAFTA ( British Academy of Film and Television Arts ) TV Award nomination . Lindelof was showrunner and head writer of " Lost " . He has written or co - written some seventy episodes of the series , including the pilot , which he co - wrote with J . J . Abrams and co - creator Jeffrey Lieber and for which he shared an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series . Lindelof earned a second Emmy nomination for co - writing the episode " The 23rd Psalm " and a third nomination for co - writing " Through the Looking Glass . " In the latter case , both he and Ronald D . Moore were nominated in the same category , but neither received the award . Other works . Before " Lost " , Lindelof was a writer and executive story editor for NBC ' s drama series " Crossing Jordan " , which he also co - produced and which starred Miguel Ferrer . Lindelof has also written for such shows as CBS ' " Nash Bridges " , ABC ' s " Wasteland " , MTV ' s " Undressed " , and Nickelodeon ' s " Avatar : The Last Airbender " . Lindelof is the writer of the comic book mini - series " Ultimate Wolverine vs . Hulk " for Marvel Comics . The series is expected to run six issues , but only two issues have been published since 2006 due to repeated delays . At the 2008 San Diego Comic Con , Lindelof and Marvel Comics Editor - in - Chief Joe Quesada announced that the scripts for all the remaining issues are complete and are waiting to be drawn . Lindelof and Abrams have purchased the rights to write and produce feature films based on Stephen King ' s " The Dark Tower " series of books . King , who greatly respects and trusts Abrams and Lindelof , optioned the rights to them for only $ 19 , which they accepted . According to Lindelof , the plan was to produce movies based on all seven books , and start on the film after " Lost " finished in 2010 . Ultimately the project fell through and passed to director Ron Howard . In 2010 , Lindelof was hired by director Ridley Scott to rewrite Jon Spaihts ' script for his " Alien " prequel , which was eventually titled " Prometheus " and released in 2012 . In 2013 , Lindelof co - wrote the screenplay for " World War Z " , adapted from the book with the same title by . In 2015 he co - wrote the film " Tomorrowland " with director .