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Voici quelques spoilers que j'ai trouvé et qui sont fournis par Kristin de eonline. Si vous ne voulez pas être quelque peu spoilé sur le cast et le déroulement de la saison ne lisait pas ce qui suit.

From DeputyDirector about S4
The staff convened as of last week, the season's being mapped out, and the S4 plots currently in the works all sound very very good. I have high hopes for S4 after everything I've heard. I'm not really going to spoil anything at the moment since things are still in flux and nothing's been written. However, I will say the following semi-spoilery stuff:

-ABC wants to run the eps consecutively starting January.

-They're planning 20 eps instead of 22. However, the premiere and the finale are currently being planned as 2 hour eps... so you still get 22 total hours of Alias.

-Lastly (and I won't reveal this just yet): You will NOT believe what Jack did. I suspect some of you will be incredibly pissed.
Disclaimer: This info is current as of today (6/11/04) and could change.

Freelancerj90 (Jun 12 2004)--> Cough, cough... I don't imagine you'll be TOO pissed, for those liking J/I... cough, cough. Let me return to lurking, now, shall I?

Freelancerj90 (Jun 14 2004)--> I meant, straight out, that though what Jack does IS bad, J/I shippers should MAYBE be happy anyway. I didn't understand how you could get any other meaning from that, is all.

DeputyDirector (Jun 14 2004)--> EVERYONE... from ABC/Touchstone, to the writers, down to the cast is incredibly psyched about the current direction S4 is headed. I'm sure once the interviews and articles start coming out it will be apparent.

DeputyDirector ---> As a fan of the show, I'm the first to admit that there were some elements of S3 that didn't go over too well. All I can give you is my opinion of what I know is in the works for S4. I feel the current direction addresses and fixes most, if not all, of the fundamental problems that I had with S3 as a viewer. This is obviously a subjective judgment, and you may ultimately disagree with me. Take it or leave it... that's your prerogative.

Alias: We Spy a Makeover (by Michael Ausiello)
Coming off a subpar season, which saw viewership decline 9 percent, series creator J.J. Abrams will once again embrace the show's original conceit. Namely, Sydney will go back to juggling her dual roles as an international spy and normal twentysomething.

"We got so deep in the Rimbaldi and Covenant [mysteries] that we lost sight of some of the stuff we fell in love with [in the beginning]," ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson tells TV Guide Online. "J.J. is talking about getting back to some of the joy that she used to have in her personal life early on... while still living in this crazy world."

Abrams says he had an epiphany about Alias' disappointing third season while he was working on the pilot for his upcoming ABC thriller, Lost. "Going away to do Lost allowed me to look at Alias in a way that I could not have done otherwise — from the outside," he explains. "And it was like an incredibly enlightening thing. I suddenly knew in my heart what I wanted and what I didn't want — and I saw what was happening. Not that I wasn't proud of what was there, but I saw some mistakes that I made and I thought, 'Oh my God.'

"It was like going home and watching the game on TV — it gives you that perspective that you don't have when you're playing it," he adds. "I have a knowledge of the show I never had before."

Meanwhile, Abrams, unlike fans, is not peeved at ABC for delaying the show's return until January. "I was begging them to do it," he admits, noting that the midseason launch will allow his baby to unspool its 20 episodes uninterrupted by reruns. "Every time we would return after three or four weeks of repeats, our ratings would dip. Every time."

The move, therefore, should not be interpreted as ABC not believing in the show, he says. "I guess you could argue that shuffling it to the back makes it look less important to them, but I think it's actually the opposite. If they didn't believe in the show they wouldn't have A) picked it up, B) ordered 20 [episodes] and C) strategized how to maximize its [potential]."

"I couldn't believe more in the show," McPherson attests. "We're going to be launching a lot of new dramas in the fall and we wouldn't have been able to put any money [into promoting Alias]. So we felt the best thing to do was bring it on in January when we've got all [20 episodes] and a huge promotion platform with the Academy Awards."

And if that strategy doesn't entangle more viewers in the spy yarn, Jennifer Garner can kiss her extensive wig collection good-bye, right? Wrong. McPherson insists there's "not a chance" Season 4 could be Alias' last. "It will be an asset for years." How many, exactly? Cracks Abrams: "Exactly 100." Nobody likes a smart-ass. Well, except us.

J.J. is writing the first episode of S4, and Ken Olin will be directing the first and second episodes.

Victor Garber is excited about Jack’s storyline in S4.

jinnie thinks that a lot of S4 will be about Jack.

Freelancerj90 confirmed jinnie’s take on her spoiler about Jack. The ‘basic’ meaning is that Jack will be a very ambiguous character.

Jun 24 2004: (DeputyDirector)--> "There's talk of having another 2 hour ep somewhere along the early/middle of the season."

Jun 26 2004: (Freelancerj90)--> During the Academy Awards ABC will be promoting Alias with "Commercials, commercials..."

Posted by: DeputyDirector Jun 24 2004
(SpyNikki)Will Nadia be back with a bigger role, or smaller role? ---Yes. Bigger role.
Will the Rimbaldi prophesy take a backseat to more realistic storylines? ---Yes.
Are all the Oracles excited about what they are hearing for season4? ---Yes.
Will Vaughn and Sydney be together, but in the background like S1&S2? :whistle:

Freelancerj90 (Jun 25 2004)--> You guys are taking the Irina thing too literally. Jack new relationship towards Sydney will be similar to that of Irina's. Jack will be one of the main plot points next season, just like Irina was s2.

Freelancerj90 (Jul 2 2004)--> [T]here will be, ahem, continuing storylines. There will be cliffhangers. The plot will be slightly less complex because of more continuity. For example, no 500-year old flowers that never get explained. Continuity is becoming a big thing.

Freelancerj90 (Jul 3 2004)
(Darth Vader)in early stages of S4 is Nadia more of a Sloane or an Irina type character? ---Like father, like daughter...

(Alias_47)Are we going to get anything from Season 3 as far as the missing two years, brought into Season 4 ---Probably not.
If we let go of or wrap up Rambaldi...does that not negate the ultimate showdown "PROPHESIED" between Syd and Nadia?? ---Not yet.
I don't want to lose some of the plot lines that have been building over the past 3 years. ---They are trying very, very hard not to do that.

(redhat)Will Sydney and Nadia start to become closer as sisters? ---Depends what you mean by closer.

Jinnie (Jul 8 2004)--> [Bradley Cooper will] be back for at least two episodes next season. (And that's in ink).

DeputyDirector (Jul 9 2004)--> Eps 1 and 2 are being written now. Production/filming isn't for another few weeks.

14-July-04 (scifi.com/scifiwire) Lumbly Wants Action In Alias --- "I think last season for me, moving from the field to administration, was a curve ball," Lumbly said[.] [H]e asked for more action scenes in the upcoming fourth season[.]

DeputyDirector (Jul 14 2004)--> Episode 2 will be written by Jeff Melvoin.

Abrams Promises to Fix 'Alias' (July 14 04) By Daniel Fienberg
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)
[M]uch of the show's daily operation will be handled by a team [including] writer-producer Jeff Melvoin, director-producer Ken Olin and [writers] including "Angel" alums Jeff Bell and Drew Goddard. The crew will have extra time to get the early scripts in order and the postproduction time will be expanded[.]

"I can tell you my mission statement: Go back to what works about the show," Abrams announces. "Go back to character first. Go back to Sydney and Vaughn as a relationship that you rooted for. Go back to Sydney and Jack as a conflict of parent and child. [G]o back [to] the dynamics that made the show absolutely function. The irony is that I felt the show was at its best.. when SD-6 existed and that's sorta the biggest hint that I will give in that storyline."

David Anders, whose Sark never properly gelled as a full-time cast member last season, will return to recurring status, a move that Abrams hopes will free the writers from stretching to insert the character into story arcs. After a full season away, it has also become increasingly less likely that Lena Olin's Irina Derevko will make a return. While recasting the part has been generally considered, Abrams isn't leaning in that direction.

"In the myopic universe of 'Alias,' it would be sacrilege to recast that part," he acknowledges. "I can't imagine doing that. I would love Lena to come back. I don't think it's something she wants to do."

Also in character limbo is Greg Grunberg's Eric Weiss. Grunberg is starring in "The Catch," a bounty hunter drama that Abrams has been writing and developing[.]

Et voilà maintenant il me tarde janvier

Rien sur Melissa GEorge pour le moment, à moins que j'aie louper un spoiler...

Bradley Cooper pour 2 zodes

Concernant le cast, il est fort probable que Melissa George ne revienne pas

Par contre apparemment il écrira le premiere de la saison 4.

Braddley, c'est le copain de CIA de Vaughn c'est bien ça? ou bien c'est Will?

J.J. Abrams, creator and executive producer of the ABC spy series Alias, told SCI FI Wire that he remembers the exact moment when he realized the show had gotten off track this past season. "I'll tell you exactly when," Abrams said in an interview at the network's fall press preview in Los Angeles, where he was promoting his new series Lost. "I was in Hawaii shooting Lost, and I watched Alias on television in Hawaii and just thought, 'Oh, my God. We've lost the show.'"



Abrams went on to explain exactly what he felt went wrong. "The biggest problem is I lost Sydney," he said, referring to the show's main character, played by Jennifer Garner. "I totally lost Sydney. Sydney and Vaughn, there was no more hope in that story. Sydney and Jack, there should always be some child/parent conflict going on there, and there was none. Sloane was on the periphery. Dixon was given a role of authority, but with no consequence. It felt like everywhere I looked there were issues that I wasn't happy with."

Abrams said he is grateful for a chance to make the appropriate adjustments to the show, which will return in January 2005 and will run without repeats for the remainder of the season. "I knew there were things I wanted to do, and luckily ABC picked us up again," Abrams said. "I just wrote the first episode, which I am as excited about as I have been about any episode I've ever done. I'm so happy that we get this shot. [We're] using what was working and going back to that in a way. You'll see what we're doing, and it's so immediately, for me, satisfying. I hope people like it. But I know that where I was really unhappy with it, I'm really happy now."

"I just wrote the first episode, which I am as excited about as I have been about any episode I've ever done.[...]I hope people like it."

Source: Kristin eonline
Next week, we'll dig deep into Alias' new direction, the coming changes and what they all mean for you. (We simply can't squeeze it all in today, so hang tight.) But for now I must tell you the good news, that while David Anders (Sark) is only going to be in five or six episodes next season, there is a silver lining: Sark-centric episodes. Whee!

"David Anders is a close friend of mine," Kevin Weisman (Marshall) told me. "He's not being asked back as a regular, but I actually think it's going to be a good thing, because when he's there, they'll really concentrate on a great storyline for him. It's disappointing that he's not going to be there every week to hang out with, but I'm not concerned about his career. He's 10 years younger than me and ridiculously talented."