The folks over at Movieweb.com managed to catch up with Jack Bauer’s latest nemesis, Tony Todd at last weekends Comic Con and this is what the man had to say about series 7 of the show.
US drama, 24 is to move on four years when it returns for its seventh series.
The New York Post reports that Chloe O’Brien, who was in the early stages of pregnancy during the last series, will now have a four year old son.
A spokesman from producer Fox said: “We’ve always built in significant passages of time between seasons of 24 for dramatic purposes. Luckily, like all great iconic characters, Jack Bauer is ageless.”
24 star, Keifer Sutherland will be released from prison this Monday.
The actor is serving a 48 day sentence for driving under the influence of alchohol whilst on probation from a similar offence in 2004.
Prison officer John Balian told People magazine that the actor had been a model inmate, saying: “Throughout his stay, he never griped, never complained. He never wanted preferential treatment from the get go, and we respect him for that.”
After going to all the effort of a massive world premiere of 24’s seventh season in New York’s Time Square, bosses behind the show may have to scrap the whole series due to the current US writers strike.
Fox announced on Wednesday that the new season won’t commence until it can air uninterrupted.
“The viewers have told us that this is a show that needs to be digested with minimal, if any, interruptions,” said Fox scheduling chief Preston Beckman.
The show could conceivably start later in the spring, should the strike be resolved, however, the delay could mean that 24 will miss the year entirely and shift its seventh cycle to the 2008-09 TV season.
We have a treat for all the 24 fans out there. We reported yesterday that the world premiere of the trailer for series 7 of the US drama took place this week in New York’s Time Square. Well now we have said trailer for your pleasure!
The world premiere for the much anticipated 7th series of 24 took place this week, In New York’s Time Square.
Approximately 2000 people gathered to watch the clip and Fox promotion winners from around the country were flown in from as far as Phoenix to attend the screening and get a chance to meet actress Mary Lynn Rajskub.
Rajskub told TVGuide.com:
“Luckily I saw the trailer yesterday because I couldn’t really focus on it with all these people,” Rajskub told TVGuide.com. “It was very exciting, I’m glad people turned out.”
“I was pretty shocked that they brought [Bernard] back,” Rajskub said. “It’s more about the shocking people that are living rather than the shocking deaths this year.”
The trailer opens in the brand new setting of Washington, D.C., where Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is on trial for his interrogation methods in his past six action-packed days.
Hit American drama, 24 is due to begin filming scenes outside California for the first time in the show’s history.
The team are being moved to Washington to shoot eight episodes from the seventh series of the show, they even hope to get one or two cameo appearances from some top US politicians.
The show’s executive producer Howard Gordon stated, “The idea is to sell Washington in the first batch of episodes and, hopefully, people will have bought into the setting later on.”
Line Producer Michael Klick stated, “We’re being forced to go to places we’ve never gone before, like downtown L.A., and we’ve been looking at older architecture. There have been some exciting visual opportunities.”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox’s 24 had to rejigger its plan to shoot scenes with Kiefer Sutherland at the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro when cast and crew became overwhelmed by drifting smoke. Similarly, Cold Case had to rethink a location shoot when strong winds blew over a set, and ABC’s Big Shots scrapped a cycling sequence in Malibu. FX’s The Riches had to make alternate plans when sheriff’s deputies working traffic control at a Santa Clarita location were pulled to, like, save lives instead, while NCIS needed to replace crew members who stayed at home to ward off the flames.
bosses behind the hit TV show, 24, have defended the frequent torture scenes that appear in the show.
“We invent these scenarios where you’re certain the terrorist knows where the bomb is,” writer and executive producer Evan Katz told Sun Online. “Of course, that is a certainty that doesn’t really exist in real life.
“The truth is, that in those circumstances (torture) seems like the right thing to do, to us.
“If a character knows where a nuclear bomb is going to go off, then I don’t think that there are too many people who would say, ‘okay we can’t torture him because it’s against our principles and so we will let the nuclear bomb go off’.”
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