Time to round-up the most post-worthy tidbits from the world of FlashForward.
Here’s a sneak peek of Thursday’s episode of FlashForward 1.03 – 137 Sekunden:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEIckXHnJ_8
[video: noamuki]
Gabrielle Union spoke to Movieline about working with John Cho and her character on FlashForward.
The 36-year-old star of Bring It On and Love & Basketball confessed that Zoey’s psychic vision of April 29, 2010 has Demetri in it, which means that he might be misinterpreting his ominous-seeming “flashforward.”
“I have a ‘flashforward’ that’s a little different than his, as he doesn’t have one, and I’m insisting that he was in mine,” Union explained. “But I believe that we are getting married. I think that’s what I see.”
She quickly added, “The [producers] are Fort Knox-y. If you say something, they’ll track you down!”
She adds that Zoey is a particularly exciting character to play because she’s “a really smart character who is not in-your-face or a know-it-all.” Amid all the speculative science spouted by FlashForward’s characters thus far, Zoey’s career as an defense attorney may add street-smarts and levity to the show.
“I’d like to think she’s a little more realistic than the over-the-top, sort of fictionalized — how fictionalized characters are drawn. Like, she can’t have it all! She can’t be smart, and have a dude, and have good credit, or you know, whatever. She’s actually pretty balanced, normal, and highly functioning, which is rare for me to play, as she’s not completely neurotic.”
As for her TV husband, she says finally meeting Cho in person — after knowing him from the cheetah rides of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle — proved refreshing.
“I pretty much knew him from American Pie and Harold & Kumar,” she said. “He’s so smart, so funny, so in love with his wife and baby. It’s actually really endearing. People usually come to work and they complain, and he comes to work and just gushes. It’s a nice little surprise.”
The creative team behind FlashForward explain why they hope FF can follow in the footsteps of LOST, whilst Dominic Monaghan highlights the difference between the two shows:
The visions mean different things to each person — one character about to get married sees nothing, while another on the verge of suicide sees himself alive. But for them all, the question is: Are the visions inevitably true?
“We’ve basically broken our series regulars down into three categories,” says executive producer David Goyer, whose writing credits include “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight.”
“A third of them fear the future, and they are trying to do everything they can to fight it. A third of them, their futures are aspirational, and they are trying to do everything they can to make it happen. And a third of them are kind of agnostic because they just don’t understand what it means, and they are trying to figure it out.”
“FlashForward” stars Joseph Fiennes (“Shakespeare in Love”) as FBI agent Mark Benford, whose vision of the future had him looking at a bulletin board filled with clues about the unexplained disturbance, making him the right man to investigate the phenomenon.
Joining him on the team are two other agents played by John Cho (as Demetri Noh) and Christine Woods (as Janis Hawk), with Courtney B. Vance as their boss, Stan Wedeck.
Gabrielle Union is Noh’s fiancee and a criminal defense attorney. Also on the series are two former “Lost” actors — Dominic Monaghan and Sonya Walger, who plays Benford’s surgeon wife, Olivia, who has a vision of herself with another man.
With a large ensemble cast — 11 series regulars and numerous guest stars planned — the series opens the door (make that doors) to numerous story possibilities, both forward and back. It also opens the door to comparisons to ABC’s “Lost,” and the network is hoping that fans of the Emmy-winning hit series will get hooked on “FlashForward” as well.
“The primary reason why we’re on ABC is I’m an enormous, enormous fan of ‘Lost,’ ” Goyer says. “I just thought it was such a genre-breaking, bold show, and it proved to me … that you can do a show with a large ensemble cast … tell a big, kind of cinematic story. ‘Lost’ traffics a lot in shades of gray, different shades of morality, which is something I find really interesting.”
While Monaghan sees similarities in the two shows — large ensemble casts, very ambitious story lines — he sees distinct differences at the same time.
“I don’t think necessarily we’re dealing with something as deeply rooted in a mythology that needs to be solved. I think this is a show that is, not necessarily to use the word “simplistic,” but is probably not as sophisticated in that deeply rich mythology as ‘Lost’ is.”
Entire article here.
Here are some Entertainment Weekly FlashForward preview scans that we didn’t get round to posting:
[scans: sonya-walger.com]
