Sunday, September 28, 2008

ABC buys TV rights to Robert J. Sawyer's novel Flashforward

TV rights to Robert J. Sawyer's science-fiction novelFlashforward have sold to ABC in a handsome deal negotiated by Vince Gerardis of Created By. David S. Goyer (Batman Begins) and Brannon Braga (Star Trek Voyager24) have scripted the pilot episode, which is now in pre-production. David Goyer will direct the pilot, and Jessika Borsiczky Goyer and Brannon Braga are among the Executive Producers.

Sawyer will serve as consultant on the pilot, and on each episode of any subsequent series; he will also write a first-season episode. Flashforward tells the story of a mysterious event that causes everyone on Earth to get a brief glimpse of their future lives. The novel, first published in 1999 by Tor Books and continuously in print since, won Canada's Aurora Award for Best Novel of the Year as well as Spain's Premio UPC de Ciencia Ficción, the world's largest cash prize for SF writing.

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