[Cancelled] FlashForward - Season 1

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Even though the flashes forward in the series only takes us as far as April 29, 2010, the creators of ABC's FlashForward say there is a plan beyond that. They hoofed it to San Diego to get the buzz train rolling, and brought along "secret" cast addition Dominic Monaghan (Lost) to up the excitement.

At first glance, I can't help but be reminded of Prison Break on FOX. It started off great, with a great serialized premise. The first season as we ratcheted toward that break out was intense and pretty good stuff. But then they were out and FOX renewed the show. Now what? What came next was hit-or-miss television for three more seasons.

Hopefully, producers David Goyer and Marc Guggenheim have thoroughly thought this through. They indicated that the final episode of the first season would be April 30, 2010; the "aftermath." I'm guessing that will tie in to whatever caused the flashes in the first place. Maybe, like Lost, it will organically reinvent itself each year.

Of course, it could just as easily spend the entire run of the series in early 2010. If everyone on the planet had a vision, there's 6.8 billion stories to tell. At one episode apiece, how many seasons would that run? More than House of Payne will get?

I'm willing to put my faith in their hands that they've though this through. If nothing else, they told us ABC was pretty insistent that there be a clear plan beyond the first year. They were watching Prison Break. Still, it will be a finite series, like Lost, though the length has yet to be determined; they say they need a minimum of three years to tell the story properly.

Does that mean they'll get two? Heavily serialized dramas like Lost have really struggled on television the past several years, with most of the new entries fizzling and getting canceled. Heroes avoided cancellation, but it still fizzled out pretty bad; I think it was lucky to be on a fourth place network as it got some of those renewals.

But this could be a pretty solid plan. With Lost going out this year, those fans could be looking for something as complex and intriguing for the next several years. And it's a pretty clever move to bring in a familiar face to that fan-base in Monaghan. Maybe these boys do know what they're doing.

"Their show isn't the new Lost"

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I'd love to agree, but the feeling of the show and Sonya Walger + Dominic Monaghan + Flash's(forward) = New Lost :laugh:

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After weeks of rumors, Lost's Dominic Monaghan has come out of the closet as a new cast member on ABC's fall series, FlashForward. He breaks his silence to TVGuideMagazine.com.

Your character is named Simon. Does he have a last name?

Can't tell you. But I can say he's the joker in the pack. A little hard to predict. He's a snappy dresser, capable and cocky. And he's a man, not a boy.

At Comic-Con, they showed a quick clip of you in a scene in a police station. Can you describe what we saw?

Simon's in cahoots with Jack Davenport's character [Lloyd Simcoe]. Joseph Fiennes' character [Mark Benford] is beating up Jack's character and saying,'Who do you work with? Who's your partner?' and Jack's saying 'I'm not going to tell you that.' And then I walk in and say, 'You know what? I'm not scared of you guys. It's me.' So he's a cocky son-of-a-bitch.

When will that scene air?

I'm not sure. But I think I start on the series around episode six or seven.

What appealed to you about FlashForward?

I read the pilot and didn't think there was anything in particular that I could do in the script. I liked it. But my agent said, [the producers] really want to meet you. They asked what I wanted to do and I said, 'I want to play someone who's the opposite of Charlie,' because that's what I did after I finished "Lord of the Rings." Charlie was the opposite of Merry. It's important for me to continue to show the audience I can't be put in a box.

How many episodes will you be in?

I'm a season regular so I'm in the show for however many episodes they make this season.

You recently had breakfast with Lost producer Damon Lindelof. Were you discussing your return to the show?

Damon and I are friends, and he has some projects he's going to be doing in the future. Lost has got only one year left. That was just a time when we hung out.

Well, would you want to go back if you were invited?

Sure. You can't close doors in this business. It's just not how you do it. I would never say I wouldn't do it.

Do you know the secret behind how Lost ends?

I know some stuff, sure. Coming to the end of the season, Damon's been a little bit freer with some information. But I don't know everything.

Talk more about the possibility of returning to Lost.

I think they closed the door well on my character, and I would only go back based on the door opening in a way that complements my character. There's a few things that they would need to do. Damon and I talk a lot about the romance and legacy that Charlie's left behind. If he were to come back, this would be the final chapter. We would need to jump through a few more hoops before we get there.

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Flash Forward - Comic-Con Snippets

-the forward flashes will only go as far as April 29, 2010, but the creators state there is a plan beyond that date

-the final episode of the first season will take place April 30, 2010 and will focus on an aftermath story

-Dominic Monaghan and Gabrielle Union?s casting is official. Read about that here.

-Monaghans character, Simon, is a ?game changer? who, according to Goyer, ?f***s up a lot of things.?

-Robert J. Sawyer, who wrote the novel the series is based upon, has approved the pilot and will write at least one Season 1 episode

-10 of the Season 1 episodes have already been written

-there?s a Kangaroo in the first 15 minutes and another 5 or 6 things are hidden in the first two acts (the Kangaroo will also be back, for some reason)

-episode 7 is a game changer

-3 different countries are featured in the first 3 episodes

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Rumor is that after the series catches up to the first flash

forward on April 29, 2010, there will then be subsequent flash forward into the future to keep the premise going.

Yeah, but maybe I shouldn't be giving that away. But it will

occur again. I think at the end of each season, all the characters will get another flash forward to deepen their storylines.

The actress who plays your wife, Sonya Walger, (Lost's Penelope), just got married in real life. What was her wedding gift?

Her gift was working very late on set the night before. That's

all we offered her.

Your character is a police detective, and the flash forward shows

glimpses of a crime board with photos, clippings and scribblings of clues. How much do you know about what's up there?

Everything is a clue to how it happened. I know the stories behind about twenty percent of what's up there. Everything on that board will lead us to who's behind this.

Which images have jumped out to you?

There's some beautiful images of a black swan, which is very

startling. There's a curious man with a widow's peek and very thick glasses and a very intense look. There's some beautiful paintings of serpents and weird-headed animals. It's going to get quite surreal.

What's your theory behind what caused the flash forward?

My theory changes by the minute. I don't know if it's sort of

a tectonic globalvshift, but I have come to the conclusion that there are people behind it.

Have you ever had a deja vu moment in your own life?

Constantly, but I read a paper in a science journal that completely debunked the idea of deja vu. Actually, it's a little glitch in your brain. It's already taken place but somehow you get a cross wire and it makes you feel like you've seen something way in the future.

Well maybe that's the secret behind the series.

(laughs) Maybe.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID GOYER

Dominic Monaghan is saying we have to wait until episode six or seven to see him.

Maybe not. He may appear in the show before people realize he's

in the show. We cast him before we shot the pilot.

What can you tell us about Dom's character?

Simon is a genius, He went to college when he was 14 years old.

He's a very conflicted character. He's very much the opposite of Charlie on Lost. People are going to see a different side of Dominic Monaghan, which is something he was pretty excited

about. Charlie was a boy, Dominic plays a man in this show.

Was that something he specifically wanted?

Yes. And it's what we wanted as well.

Does Simon have a last name and a wife and kids?

Those are plot points I can't reveal. There are many mysteries

surrounding his character.

Joseph Fiennes told us that after the series reaches the first flash

forward on April 29, there will be another flash forward.

Well, what I'll say is the cast doesn't know much about where

we're going and we've also deliberately leaked some misleads.

Everyone seems focused on the kangaroo seen hoping around the streets of downtown L.A. after the incident occurs. I assumed he'd just escaped down the hill from the L.A. zoo. Is there more to this creature?

That could be a possibility, but I will say the kangaroo will be

back. The kangaroo has a story.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARC GUGGENHEIM

Any new character's coming on board?

We will meet Dimitri's (John Cho) fiance, Zoey?the one

he talks about in the pilot. We're going to meet her in episode three. She's an attorney. [Editor's note: The character will be played by Gabrielle Union.]

Can a wedding happen in light of the incident?

They've been talking about their engagement since before

the blackout. We will deal with this issue head-on directly in episode three when me meet Zoey and see her flash forward.

An other new characters?

We know who is going to play Mark's (Joseph Fiennes)

mother. It's an actress we've already reached out to who is interested in doing it. If you look carefully in the Benford house you'll see pictures of her. She's already in the set dressing.

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And star Joseph Fiennes says the FBI agents' board, full of newspaper clippings and photos and scribbled clues will lead us to whoever is behind the worldwide future-vision ? and Fiennes is convinced the cause is a "who," not a "what." Striking images in the show include a black swan, an intense man with a widow's peak, and paintings of serpents and "weird-headed animals." Goyer says Monaghan's character, Simon, is a genius who went to college when he was 14 years old, and the kanagaroo you see hopping around L.A. will reappear because it "has a story." And executive producer Marc Guggenheim says we'll meet Zoey, the lawyer fiancee of John Cho's character, in episode three. Wel'll deal with whether they can still marry in the wake of the "flash forward." We'll also meet the mother of Fiennes' character at some point. [TV Guide Magazine]

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In the pilot, when everybody sees a couple of minutes of their future (six months later) the glimpse saves one character from attempting suicide. Another character worries they'll relapse into alcoholism, and a third worries their marriage will end. Gabrielle Union, who plays the wife of John Cho's FBI agent character, says her own "flash forward" is uplifting. And Cho's chracter doesn't tell her that he sees nothing at all in his flash forward, at least not in the first few episodes. [Sci Fi Wire]

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