Season 2: what would have happened...

I’ve been searching on the Internet for info on what would have happened 'in FlashForward' if it hadn’t been cancelled.

I found a really interesting interview with the British actor who played the bad guy Lucas Hallenger in a few episodes.

Here’s some comments he made after the show got cancelled:

http://www.digitalspy.ca/british-tv/s56/flashforward/tubetalk/a316491/qa-a-chat-with-neil-jackson.html

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- We've got to talk about FlashForward - lots of people were upset when that was canceled. How did you feel?
"I was pretty upset. I had a long chat with [David Goyer, the creator of the show], as we were coming to the end, talking about who was my character and what was he about. They were very cloak and dagger at the beginning about giving me information - they couldn't tell me who he was or where he came from. I wasn't allowed any backstory on the character, which was difficult, trying to create the character when you know nothing about them.”

“But the plan for the second season was we find out the reason that my character had been causing these blackouts was to cull large numbers of the population, because he'd had so many FlashForwards himself he'd ended up seeing the future. The world within the next 250 years, looking at all the statistics, is going to become way too overpopulated for our natural resources. Famine, pestilence, drought - all these things will become commonplace. So as a humanitarian he wanted to indiscriminately kill lots of members of the population to try to bring the human population down. He was actually in his own warped way a good guy for humanity, which was a fascinating way to go with the second season and would have made my character one of the main characters and would be a really interesting, nefarious story. But it didn't happen, unfortunately!"

- It's interesting they had it all planned out.
"Every TV show they plan so far ahead because they don't just need to know the first three or four episodes - in order to get picked up they need to know what the legs are of the show. Every show has what is called the Bible and it's everything to do with that show. I read the Bible for Lost and it's interesting - when they were shooting the pilot, in the Bible they already had mapped out what the last episode of the series was going to be."

- So they had a plan - could FlashForward ever be wrapped up on TV or film?
"I doubt it now, unfortunately. Everybody's out of contract so to try to get all of those actors back at a point when they're all available and then organizing all the contracts for them to come back and for that character... I mean, never say never - there are several shows that have come back after a year or two years later - but I doubt it. Which is a shame but it's the nature of the business, everybody's already moved on."

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