Flash Forward the Novel by Robert J. Sawyer
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So you’ve read the “FlashForward” novel by Robert J. Sawyer – no point in watching the TV series because you know what’s going to happen, right?
Well, yes.
And no.
Mostly no..
According to producer David Goyer, the series borrows from the novel’s source material, but there will be many adaptations and changes to make it workable as a TV Series:
“The book was set 20 years in the future,” Goyer said. “For dramatic purposes, we made the future more immediate. It’s one thing to know you’re maybe going to die 20 years from now. It’s another to say it’ll happen six months from now. That was a big change.”
Goyer and company also devised a different set of characters — 10 everyday Los Angeles citizens — and changed the underlying explanation for FastForward’s time-jumping phenomenon.
“Sawyer’s book centers around a group of quantum physicists,” Goyer said. “We came up with a different kind of explanation ultimately. It would be pretty stupid to build a hit TV series that has a mystery you could solve by going to a bookstore.”
[Wired]
