What does the future tell for Flash Forward?
Posted by The Skyliner on November 4th, 2009Kyra Alexander
Staff Writer
What if you saw your future six months from now? A glimpse of where you will be and who you will be with? Would you look forward to what was coming…or would you try to stop it?
Adapting award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer’s revolutionary novel, Flash Forward, executive producers David S. Goyer (co-writer of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight), Brannon Braga (24, Star Trek: Enterprise), Marc Guggenheim (Brothers & Sisters, Eli Stone), Jessika Borszicky (Revelations) and producer Mark H. Ovitz (October Road) invite you to embark on a journey to answer the question, “If you knew what your future held, what would you do?”
A big, interconnected cast tells an unfolding story that begins with a cataclysmic event: Everyone on the planet blanks out for precisely two minutes and 17 seconds. During that time, the characters “flash forward” in their minds and see a few moments from their lives on a specific future date: 10 p.m. on April 29, 2010. Some like what they see in the future, others do not.
Los Angeles FBI Agent Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) is desperate to uncover why this happened and who or what is behind it. And he’s not the only one. Before long, everyone starts asking, “What did you see?” As Mark and his team struggle to figure out what caused this bizarre event, they begin to piece together the future by creating a huge database of people’s flash forwards from all over the world – “The Mosaic Collective.” No one knows what these flash forwards mean or exactly what the future really holds. But it is clear that across the globe people who’ve never met will somehow be intimately connected and will have an impact on each other’s lives in the next six months. Some will fear what’s coming, others excited; but not a single person will be unaffected.
Flash Forward has been dubbed “the next Lost,” for legitimate reasons. It is a mystery show that may or may not, be a science fiction based plot. It introduces a variety of characters who all deal, in their own way, with the perplexing, common problem that changes their lives forever. And while Lost has its peculiarly present polar bear, Flash Forward has its kangaroo hopping on the streets of the Los Angeles.
Want to catch up on the series? Full episodes can be watched online at abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward. Catch the show Thursday nights at 8 p.m. on ABC.
Tags: Fall 2009, Vol. 109 - Issue 8