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ABC has officially picked up drama “Flash Forward.”The show, which already is being promoted on the network, received a 13-episode order Friday night.Based on Robert J. Sawyer’s novel, the Joseph Fiennes-starring series chronicles the aftermath of a global event in which everyone in the world blacks out for 2 minutes, 17 seconds and has mysterious visions of six months into the future.David Goyer and Brannon Braga co-wrote the pilot for “Flash,” which Goyer directed.Both will exec produce the series, but because of his commitment...
A novel by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer is to be developed into an ABC network series along the lines of Lost.ABC has ordered 13 episodes of Flash Forward and it is expected to debut this fall on the U.S. network.It is based on Sawyer’s 1999 book Flashforward, in which a mysterious event occurs that causes many people on earth to have visions of the future.Sawyer, who lives in Mississauga, Ont., is an internationally acclaimed science fiction writer of books such as Hominids, Golden Fleece, Relativity and...
SOURCE: OTTAWA CITIZENHere’s something that tells you straight off that Robert J. Sawyer is a science-fiction author. He’s about to become the first writer-in-residence at Saskatoon’s Canadian Light Source synchrotron lab — not a place most people would associate with the literary world. For the uninitiated, the synchrotron is a type of particle accelerator, the sort of gizmo that wouldn’t seem out of place in the latest remake of Star Trek.Genre writing is where the real money lies in publishing these days and Sawyer, a 48-year-old...
