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The FBI agent and his wife’s apparent future lover just miss crossing paths in the hospital hallway. They don’t meet, but what if they had?
Would it block his wife’s path to infidelity? Or would it guarantee it?
The underlying question — can you change your future? — is at the heart of ABC’s FlashForward (Sept. 24, 8 ET/PT), among the most-awaited new fall TV series, and one that some are calling the next Lost.
The premise centers on a two-minute, 17-second blackout that strikes the world’s population, followed by crashes, deaths and other disasters that result from the global unconsciousness. During the blackout, almost everyone has a vision — a flash-forward — six months ahead, to April 29, 2010. 10 p.m. PT, to be exact. Some are welcome, and some, including the wife’s vision of the lover, are not.
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What if you saw your future 6 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?
A mysterious global event causes everyone to black out simultaneously for two minutes and seventeen seconds, and each person sees a glimpse of their lives six months from now. When they wake up, everyone is left wondering if what they saw will actually happen.
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.
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Molly Sullivan: For the show-runners, can you talk about the genesis of this project? How many seasons do you see? If you go for two seasons, will you answer this question and then have another blackout and try to solve that one?
David S. Goyer: By the end of the first season, most of the questions raised in the pilot, including the one you see at the very end, will be answered. The over-arcing cause of why the blackout happened, that’s like our background radiation mystery of the whole series. I think, to really do the show justice, we would need at least three seasons, and it can kind of accordion out, Courtney says, to 21 seasons. [Laughs]
Courtney B. Vance: Rawhide.
DSG: I’ll be in adult diapers by then. [Laughs]
Marc Guggenheim: I’ll be in adult diapers by the end of the season.
Joseph Fiennes: That depends.
DSG: In terms of the genesis, it’s loosely based on a novel that Jessica found about eight years ago.
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Being ultra-secretive and mysterious, former Lost star Dominic Monaghan will only say that he is going to be playing Simon on the upcoming ABC television series Flash Forward.
During the Television Critics Association Press Tour, the actor admitted that he was told more, up front, about Lost than he was for this new venture, which he signed on for without even a script. But, he also explained that the draw for him was the great writing and the ability to play a character that was vastly different from his last.
In the pilot episode, a mysterious global event causes everyone to black out simultaneously for two minutes and seventeen seconds, and each person sees a glimpse of their lives six months from now. When they wake up, everyone is left wondering if what they saw will actually happen.
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The video doesn’t feature Dom, but I thought I’d post it anyway because it looks to be quite an interesting show.
Film and television star Dominic Monaghan opened up to ET at Comic-Con in San Diego about his new show “Flash Forward” — and the star also revealed some extreme measures he has had to take to maintain his privacy.
The “Lost” and ‘Lord of The Rings’ star tells ET that although he is grateful for his fans and their support, sometimes when he is in a hurry he has to disguise himself.
“I unfortunately have to get to places on schedule, I don’t do a huge amount of stopping,” he says. “I wear little disguises so I don’t get stopped, but it’s good to feel the love, and good to know people are supportive of projects that I’m involved with. I love coming down to Comic-Con.”
Dominic tells ET what he would like to be able to see about his own future.
“I’d like to meet my kids, see how they’re doing,” he says. “I’d like to know I did all the things that I wanted to do with my folks.”
“Flash Forward” premieres September 24 on ABC.
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Production on Lost season six doesn’t begin for another few weeks, but thanks to Comic-Con, we’re starting to get a sense of the new season, including which castmembers might be back to cavort in those alternate timelines the producers teased.
Which brings us to Dominic Monaghan’s beloved Charlie. His appearance on stage as the grand finale of Lost’s panel all but confirmed that Mr. Pace would be back for the final season of Lost. But is it true? And if so, how much might we see of him? Here’s what we’re hearing…
Sources tell us exclusively that, yes, Dom’s deal to reappear on Lost is done and that the original castmember is set to appear in three episodes in season six.
No word yet on the answer to the big question: Is Charlie alive? We’ll have to wait until Lost returns to ABC in January 2010 to find out.
At Comic-Con 2009 it was revealed that actor Dominic Monaghan, best known for his role as Charlie in Lost and as the hobbit Meriadoc, or Merry, in The Lord of the Rings movies, has joined the cast of the new sci-fi drama Flash Forward.
Just like his fellow Lost coworker Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet), who now stars in the remake of the alien invasion series V as Erica Evans, Dominic Monaghan will stay on the sci-fi genre with Flash Forward. And British actressSonya Walger, Penny in Lost, will join the fun in Flash Forward as well. Furthermore, all of them will continue working with ABC, network which besides Lost will also air both upcoming shows.
Obviously, being on Lost has absolutely no side effects on actors’ careers, especially when talking science fiction.
Also in the cast of Flash Forward are John Cho, from Star Trek, Joseph Fiennes, star of the movie Shakespeare in Love, and Courtney B. Vance from Law & Order. They will all be characters in a world where the entire population has a flash forward into their future six months of existence during two minutes of global unconsciousness.
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