David Goyer Draws Parallel Between ‘Flash Forward’ and 9/11
ABC’s upcoming new series Flash Forward tells the story of many different characters from all over the world as they deal with witnessing a 2-minute and 17-second slice of the future.
David S. Goyer, whose writing is associated with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, is one of the series creators. Recently he drew an interesting comparison between the premise of the new series and the impact of the tragic events of 9/11.
“I had this experience,” Goyer said. “I was in France immediately after 9/11. It’s definitely baked into the DNA of this show. I never had this experience where there was this enormous outpouring of sympathy for being American, which doesn’t typically happen in Paris. I would be in these bistros, in these bars, and I would have complete strangers crying and coming up to me and hugging me and holding me and talking about where they were and what they were doing. What were they doing when 9/11 happened?”
“I thought, obviously, it was horrendous,” he continues,”but it was also, for this one moment, for this brief period of time, this profoundly kind of connecting experience for a lot of the world. And so we were trying to also go in that direction with this. I mean, you will have people in our show, you could walk into a bar a total stranger. ‘What did you see?’ And these people might start talking to each other because everyone on this planet, 6.8 billion people, experienced it. And that’s this, also, kind of wonderful thing that brings the whole world closer together.”
Flash Forward will premiere on Thursday, September 24 at 8pm ET.
Source: CanMag
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Wow. David Goyer’s brainstorm was really inspiring. i don’t think I could have thought of this.