David Goyer quits FlashForward for Batman sequel?

If you had much in the way of doubt that ABC's FlashForward was facing a troubled long-term future, then surely it's been eradicated now. At the back end of last year, it was announced that David Goyer was to take on sole showrunner responsibilities for the programme (after original chief Mark Guggenheim left), which had shot out of the traps in promising style and gradually laboured its way to ratings and narrative decline.

With the return of FlashForward postponed until March, the idea was that Goyer would be able to go in and make some tangible changes to give the show a shot at a second season. But now? Goyer himself has left the show, amidst - as Deadline Hollywood reports - "a lot of ‘infighting' and ‘backbiting' inside the show".

Goyer has departed with five episodes still to be shot of FlashForward's maiden season, and in a statement, he said, "As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions."

More specifically, it seems as though the next Batman movie is firmly on the agenda. Deadline Hollywood confirms that Goyer "is now writing the third Batman instalment with Chris Nolan's brother Jonah". Given that writing team, it's not unreasonable to suspect that Christopher Nolan remains heavily involved one way or the other with the franchise.

But where next for FlashForward? The show returns to US screens on March 18th, and ABC will be hoping that the supposedly sizeable reworking of the show has the desired effect...

Here's the Deadline Hollywood story.