Sy Fy Portal (via Sci Fi Wire) posted an interview with former Star Trek Enterprise producer Brannon Braga, in which he talks about his upcoming new sci-fi TV Series Flash Foward, starring John Cho (the new Sulu from J.J. Abrams Trek movie). Here are excerpts from the article.
The new show is based on Robert Sawyer's novel, Flash Forward. "That [the novel] was the impetus for it and the idea of the entire world blacking out at the same time for a discrete amount of time, and everybody on Earth having mysterious visions of the future. Same idea." Braga said. "Obviously, to do a TV show, you have to sustain potentially -- and God willing -- 100 episodes or more; you've got to change the concept a little bit. His [Sawyer's] novel had people having visions of the future 20 years from now. We change that to five months from now and kind of narrowed down the scope a little bit and made it a little bit more of an intimate epic. But essentially the concept is the same."
"It's so early in the game, [but] we have a lot planned," Braga said. "We have a lot we want to do. Before we sold the show, we sat down, and we were like, 'This is a big idea. We want to have as much as we can planned for the duration of the show in case it does go. We don't want to be winging it.'"
http://trekweb.com/articles/2009/01/...h-Foward.shtml
The new show is based on Robert Sawyer's novel, Flash Forward. "That [the novel] was the impetus for it and the idea of the entire world blacking out at the same time for a discrete amount of time, and everybody on Earth having mysterious visions of the future. Same idea." Braga said. "Obviously, to do a TV show, you have to sustain potentially -- and God willing -- 100 episodes or more; you've got to change the concept a little bit. His [Sawyer's] novel had people having visions of the future 20 years from now. We change that to five months from now and kind of narrowed down the scope a little bit and made it a little bit more of an intimate epic. But essentially the concept is the same."
"It's so early in the game, [but] we have a lot planned," Braga said. "We have a lot we want to do. Before we sold the show, we sat down, and we were like, 'This is a big idea. We want to have as much as we can planned for the duration of the show in case it does go. We don't want to be winging it.'"
http://trekweb.com/articles/2009/01/...h-Foward.shtml
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