Wow, David Goyer’s Flash Forward is really moving forward (no pun intended) full steam now, especially with this news that Joseph Fiennes (the equally accomplished brother of Ralph Fiennes) is currently in negotiations to play the male lead on the show. If the T’s are crossed and the I’s dotted, Fiennes will be playing a formerly alcoholic FBI agent who must solve the mystery that grips the world after the population passes out for exactly 2 minutes and 17 seconds and sees a mysterious vision that changes their lives forever. John Cho, the new Sulu from J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, will also be joining the cast as Fiennes’ FBI partner.

Movie writer/director David Goyer’s stab at sci-fi TV, the intriguing sounding Flash Forward, has hired its first two actors — Courtney B. Vance (pictured, left) and Jack Davenport (pictured, below), according to Sci Fi Wire. Vance will play Stan Wedeck, the Los Angeles bureau chief of the FBI. Davenport will play Lloyd Simcoe, who is trapped in Northern California when the event occurs and struggles to reach his son in a Southland hospital.

Oooh, now this is an intriguing little concept for a TV show: everyone in the world blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, and during that black out, they all get a mysterious vision of the future that changes their lives, and the world, forever. Now I guess the only thing to do is try to figure out what it all means? Or something like that. The project comes from two very notable genre names — former Star Trek head honcho Brannon Braga and movie screenwriter David S. Goyer, who recently penned the ginormous hit “The Dark Knight” for Christopher Nolan. Maybe you’ve heard of it? The two also previously worked together on the short-lived CBS show Threshold, another show I liked, that never got much of a chance by the network.