David Goyer On Flash Forward: It’s not Sci Fi

Oh I beg to differ. David Goyer, co-creator of ABC’s “Flash Forward” has a few things to say about the imminent splashdown of his series starring Joseph Fiennes, Dominic Monaghan and John Cho (Sulu!).

To summarize, Flash Forward is based on a pretty famous Sci-Fi book by Robert Sawyer about a planet called Earth and the really disruptive events that occur when everyone awake goes face forward for 2 minutes and 17 seconds and has a vision of their (possible?) future in 6 months time. Chaos ensues. Oh the dramatic possibilities.

I will be all over this with highly over the top episode reviews, week after unending week. It better be good is all I have to say. Here’s some highly choice moments from the interview David Goyer has with the kindly journalistas at Scifiwire.

Goyer on the Sci-Fi content.

“I mean, there’s one [sci-fi gimmick], the flash-forwards,” Goyer says. “The audiences won’t know for a couple of years what the ultimate cause of them were, so I don’t think it really matters.”

On the train wreck the future has in store for it’s star:

“We’re going to see a man taken to the brink, taken to the extreme,” Fiennes says, adding: “Everything’s beautiful, and it’s great, … and then suddenly the world comes crashing down. … We’re going to see him being ripped apart, tested. … And it’s really about the moral boundaries that you’re prepared to cross, or you’re having to confront, in order to change the future, change the outcome of what you see.”

Snap up the rest of the interview at Scifiwire. Flash Forward premieres Sept 24th.