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Braun pitched an idea he called “Lost.” He described the show as a cross between Cast Away, the 2000 movie starring Tom Hanks as a survivor on a desert island, and “Survivor.” (Like “The Sopranos,” many of Braun’s series ideas have come from feature films.) But, Braun explained, “not a guy alone on a desert island with a soccer ball, but rather a group of people who find themselves thrown together and now have to make a life together and form a society. A world where no one knows who anyone really is, where, at the end of the day, everyone has to figure out, ‘how the hell do we get off this island?’ ”