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Jack Bauer Talks 24 Movie

Empire caught up with Jack Bauer this afternoon at Comic-Con’s 24 panel. While taking in a sneak peak at the upcoming season eight, we got the skinny from Kiefer Sutherland on whether another 24 movie is in the works and whether a theatrical appearance might one day be on the cards.

“Well, there has been a lot of work done researching ideas for a film or a potential film franchise,” explains Sutherland. “But the energy that’s required to make the 24 episodes a year… we agreed that we would put any serious planning for a film aside until we were finished with the series. So outside talking about ideas for a film it hasn’t gone any farther than that. But there are certainly some cool ideas and we’d love to make it.”

So no big screen Power hour (and a half?) for the forseeable future, though they’re not ruling out a second feathure-length, standalone episode in the future. God dammit, Chloe!

24 Stars Offer New Season Teasers

24 star Kiefer Sutherland says the new season, premiering in January 2010, is “the most realistic storyline I think we’ve done since season one. It centers around peace conferences taking place at the UN between the president of Iran and the President of the United States, which I believe is possible within the next few
years. Obviously there will be a lot of people who will want to fight that. This is about fighting off that threat to peace.”

With four new episodes already in the can, I asked Kiefer’s co-stars to clue me in on one special scene they’ve already shot.

MARY LYNN RAJSKUB (CHLOE O’BRIAN)
“Chloe is not up to speed in the new CTU, which is very different for her. Katee Sackhoff plays my new boss (Dana Walsh), and she kind of pats me on the shoulder and says, ‘Don’t worry—you’ll catch up,’ which is the worst moment for Chloe ever. Everything’s changed at CTU and my bosses are looking at me like I’m not doing it right. But then something happens in the story where I think I know some information which pits me at odds with my bosses.” Mary Lynn adds that the new New York City-based CTU looks “kind of like
a spaceship. It’s sleek with a lot of glass,
and underground with a tunnel you drive through to get into it. I feel kind of like Batgirl. And our computers are under glass and there’s a huge screen with all the information on it that everyone can access.”

FREDDIE PRINZE JR. (new CTU agent COLE ORTIZ)
“There’s a moment between my character, who runs field ops, and Katee’s character, Dana Walsh, who runs the tech side of things. They’re engaged and it’s difficult having a relationship at work when the stakes are so high. They’re having some problems that I really can’t get into. You see that somebody’s holding things
back—maybe she has a secret which he has to concern himself with. He’s a Marine and he bases
everything on having a plan with a coordinated attack. There’s an interesting dynamic on how he’s going to deal with her.”

ANIL KAPOOR (Foreign Leader OMAR HASSAN)
“I have one scene in a car with my bodyguard, Tarin. Suddenly I’m sending messages to my country to say people (behind an assassination attempt on his character’s life) have to be taken to task and arrested. I can sense that the bodyguard is uncomfortable and the way that the scene progresses is very dramatic. I speak about the peace process, my younger brother Akbar and my family. It’s a catharsis for my character.” By the way, Omar’s loved ones include a daughter, a wife—and a girlfriend!

Kiefer Sutherland and the cast of ’24′ discuss season eight at Comic-Con

The last time viewers saw Jack Bauer, he was clinging to life with his daughter by his bedside. At Comic-Con on Friday, the man who played him was alive and well.

Kiefer Sutherland was joined by producer Howard Gordan, and Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe O’Brian), as well as the recently cast Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire), Freddie Prinze Jr., and Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff to discuss the upcoming eighth season of the real-time thriller.

According to IGN.com, details of the new cast members’ characters were revealed:

Turning to the new cast members, executive producer Howard Gordon said that there are few actors who can credibly pull off playing a king or president, and that Kapoor is one of those people. Prinze said he’d been a fan of 24 since the start, and recalled telling his wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar, “It would great to be on that show one day.” However, he had some self-deprecating fun, noting, “I never thought there would be a chance, because I was acting with talking animals at the time. ” Prinze said his character, Cole Ortiz, is “In field Ops for CTU” and is an ex-marine.

Sackhoff, obviously adored by the Comic-Con audience, said that when she found out there was a role open, she told her manager, “Get me on 24!” Noting she plays Dana Walsh, a CTU analyst engaged to Cole, Sackhoff said she told the writers, “This is fantastic. But at some point, I need a gun. This computer stuff is great, but I need a gun…Two, preferably!”

Fans at Comic-Con were treated with footage from season eight, as well. Here are the details:

Two scenes from the Season 8 premiere were then shown. The clips began with Jack in an apartment when a knock on his door finds a man named Victor (The Shield’s Benito Martinez) – someone he’s familiar with from the past. Victor is hurt and bleeding, and tells Jack he needs help and that he has information. Jack initially tells Victor he can’t help him, telling him, “I’m out,” but when Victor tells him President Hassan (Kapoor) has a hit out on him, scheduled to go down that day at the UN, Jack starts listening. Jack asks for Victor’s weapon and then instantly puts the gun to Victor’s neck, warning him, “You better not be screwing with me!” Victor tells Jack he thinks the hitman is “Russian or something” but doesn’t have a name.

Below is an interview Sutherland gave while at San Diego’s Comic-Con, where he discusses the real possibility that this upcoming season may be his last.

The real-time thriller returns to television in January, 2010.

Comic-Con 2009: A Plot to Kill the President on ’24′ Season 8

Today’s Comic-Con panel for 24 revealed quite a few details about what fans will see when the show returns in 2010 for the eighth longest day in Jack Bauer’s life. There are new details on the characters, the terrorist plot, and gunplay.

According to producers, the main plot for season 8 will tie directly into what happened during season 7, marking the first time two seasons have had overlapping terrorist plots. However, season 8 will deal with a new threat as there’s a presidential assassination on the horizon.

Jack Bauer will once again try to give up the life of saving the world, living happily with his daughter Kim and his granddaughter Teri. But much like last season, a familiar face will return to suck Jack back into the story.

But there are plenty of new characters, chief among them are Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff and Freddie Prinze Jr. Prinze will play a wannabe Jack while Sackhoff is an analyst. They revealed at the panel that these two characters are engaged, and Sackhoff hinted at the possibility that her character isn’t all that good.

Sackhoff also won over her fans with a clever quip about moving from the violent Starbuck to a computer technician. “I need a gun,” she said. “Or two.”

The other big newcomer at the panel was Anil Kapoor, star of the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire. He didn’t say much, which suggests either he’ll be a major villain or a red herring who dies quickly. It was revealed that he’ll be playing a king.

Comic-Con Backstage: Kiefer Sutherland discusses the possible end of ’24′

ack Bauer will return for another Day of “24″ starting next January on FOX. That means that once again, Jack has cheated death. Even if we establish, though, that Jack Bauer is essentially a television immortal, time may still be running out for Kiefer Sutherland’s gun-toting alter-ego.

FOX renewed “24″ for two seasons back in 2007, a deal that simultaneously extended the show for the duration of Sutherland’s contract with 20th Century Fox TV. At the time, “24″ was coming off a critically maligned sixth season and an additional two seasons seemed like a realistic and finite duration.

After losing a year due to the strike, “24″ returned this spring and while ratings weren’t anywhere near what they were at the show’s peak, it still continued to anchor FOX’s strong Monday night and picked up six Emmy nominations (11 if you include the telefilm “24: Redemption”). As a result, Sutherland is far from committed to walking away next May.

“I don’t know with regards to ‘The Last Season’ or anything,” Sutherland told reporters backstage after the “24″ Comic-Con panel on Friday (July 24). “I really don’t. It is the last season that I’ve been contracted to do ’24,’ but I really don’t know. We’re so focused on making Season Eight. But obviously the requirements would be that the writers felt that they could really bang it out. If Howard [Gordon] came to me and say, ‘The way I saw those last scenes play, I have an idea for Season Nine that would be unbelievable,’ I would have to listen to him for that. I think we’re all very away of wanting to protect what we believe is a very strong and important legacy that is ’24.’ All of those things. Again, the choices to do or not to do it have nothing to do with my contract, have everything to do with whether or not an audience still wants to watch it and cares and whether or not we feel we have something to offer.”

In the immediate present, Sutherland and the “24″ team are in production on Day Eight of “24,” the show’s first season in New York City (following its first day in Washington, D.C. this year). How will they top what was possibly the most tortured day of Jack Bauer’s life? Or at least build on it? Well, at the Comic-Con panel, Sutherland and showrunner Howard Gordon echoed that this season’s theme will be “peace” both in the main plot, which involves an assassination attempt that would jeopardize a historic summit between a Middle Eastern President (Anil Kapoor) and President Taylor (Cherry Jones), and for Bauer.

“My sense, and I think today kind of confirms it, I think fans kinda root for Jack and I think I kinda root for him as well and I think people would like to see him at least have the option to have a good life,” Sutherland said. “We’ve stripped a lot of those components away over the years, by virtue of killing everybody, that whether he wants to live or die seemed to become kind of innocuous, like ‘Who cares?’ There was nothing really to live for. So what we did for this season is to really try to create something that would make Jack want to live. We started off with just this relationship between he and his daughter and his granddaughter and her husband and that family, because his family was literally torn apart after Season One.”

Sutherland added, “For me as an actor and Jack as a character, the desire for Season Eight is to protect all of the things that would make living worthwhile and also live within the context of what he morally accept himself doing or not doing.”

How will Sutherland react to the end of his run as Jack Bauer, whether it comes after next season or several years down the road?

“I think it’s gonna be very complicated,” he said.” Whether this is our last season or next season’s our last season, we certainly know we’re on the shorter end of the stick than the longer one.”

He continued, “In Season One and Season Two, it’s such a shock to your body, the workload, that you can’t wait for it to be done. And somewhere and somehow in the groove of everything, you start to get into a rhythm of it and you find ways to make it easier for yourself… I know for a fact that it’s not gonna be ‘Wahoo!’ It’s gonna be a combination of a lot of things and it’s not gonna be easy.”

FOX has already set a Sunday, Jan. 17 premiere for Day Eight of “24.”

24′s Jack Bauer Returns a Happy Man

First and foremost, in case there was even just a shred of doubt whether Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) survived the 24 season finale, executive producer Howard Gordon was quick to tell the crowd at today’s panel, “He did make it through and you’ll see a little bit later how.”

Now that that’s settled, we can move on to bigger and better things…

We already know that season eight takes place in New York, but it’s actually a continuation of the season seven storyline. “Season seven and eight, probably more than any other season that we’ve done before, are really connected together. The storylines from season seven really do play all the way through into season eight,” said Kiefer. We’re told it takes place about eight or nine months following Jack slipping into a coma.

“Basically the threat centers around a peace conference at the U.N. that is being headed by the President of the United States and the President of Iran [played by Anil Kapoor of Slumdog Millionaire fame]. The rest of the day goes forward from that point,” spilled Kiefer. In past seasons, 24 was very focused on wars and terror; however, Gordon said they’re going to capture the audience this season “with peace, with the possibility of peace,” to which Kiefer joked, “Don’t be alarmed, we do still blow s–t up.”

On top of the new threat Jack needs to deal with, he’s also coming down from his near-death experience. Executive producer Manny Coto said, “[The season] starts with Jack in a place we haven’t seen and that [he] is happy with his daughter and his granddaughter, and it’s really an interesting place because when you see those scenes in the beginning you realize, gosh, we haven’t seen this side of him for so long. There’s always this dread when you’re watching it that this is not going to last and it makes those moments so much more poignant.” Added Kiefer, “[It's about] trying to figure out how to get Jack back to a place where living mattered. His life had been crushed so badly over the past seven seasons.”

Obviously, Jack’s happiness doesn’t last very long, or else there wouldn’t be an exciting 24 hours ahead of us. Besides the imminent threat on the U.N., Renee (Annie Wersching) is actually bringing some trouble back with her. Executive producer David Fury said, “Renee will return within the first few [episodes] and she will be a different person than she was. The hint of the relationship that we put forth in season seven—we will be following through with this season. The season begins with Jack in a happy place ready to start a new life. And when Renee enters the scene, she is a damaged person. But she is someone he decides could be a part of [his] new life.”

As for a possible romantic spark between Jack and Renee, Kiefer said, “That was someone he obviously had very serious feelings for. The desire for season eight is to protect all of the things that would make living worthwhile.” That sounds like a pretty close relationship is on the horizon for Jack and Renee.

In a sneak peek shown at Comic-Con, fans got a preview of the New York CTU division. It’s all sleek, shiny and high-tech in a semi-sexy way (underground tunnel included!). Although high-tech is what’s going to give Chloe a hard time in the upcoming season. Mary-Lynn Rajskub said, “My character starts off a little bit behind, if you can believe that for being such a genius, because I’ve been at home with my son. So I’m back at CTU and having to relearn some stuff.” It probably doesn’t help that new cast member Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) is her boss. Quite opposite to her head-to-head rivalry with Janeane Garofalo’s Janis Gold, Sackhoff’s Dana Walsh puts on the overfriendly “you’ll get better, you just need practice” tone to the annoyance of Chloe.

Dana Walsh, on the other hand, is not quite as friendly as she appears. Mr. Buffy Summers, ahem, Freddie Prinze Jr., whose character, Cole Ortiz, is engaged to Walsh, told us, “There’s a dark side to this relationship that you find out about fairly quickly. For a character like Cole—who is someone who is very disciplined and substituted a lot of feelings that he had post-9/11 for the qualities that define a Marine, like self-respect and dignity and honor—for someone like that to go through what this character is going to go through, it’s really going to turn his world upside down as far as their relationship goes.” Adding fuel to the fire of her character’s possible evil side was Katee saying she told the writers she loved the scripts, “but at some point I’m going to need a gun.”

Finally, the possibility of a 24 movie came up. “There’s been a lot of work done on behalf of Fox and us as well, kind of researching ideas for a film or a potential film franchise,” said Kiefer. “We agreed after season two that we would put any real planning for a film aside until we actually felt the series was in fact going to end. Every once in a while I say, ‘Wouldn’t it be a cool idea for a film?’ It really hasn’t gone any farther than that, but certainly we’ve been made aware that there’s some interest out there and we’d love to make it.”

Comic-Con 2009: ‘24′ Panel

The 24 panel at San Diego Comic-Con had Keifer Sutherland, Howard Gordon, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Katee Sackhoff, Freddie Prinze Jr., Anil Kapoor, Brannon Braga, David Fury, Manny Coto, Evan Katz & Sean Gallery in attendance today.

As you can see it was a large contingent and a great mix of production crew and actors.

Of course Keifer was the man. When he came out the hall erupted, but Katee Sackhoff drew a close 2nd in the volume of applause. It was great to see, not to mention Katee looking just spectacular.

There are SMALL SPOILERS within, but I don’t think they’re show killers at all.

Here are some of the items touched on in the panel session for 24:

Keifer: They’re going to make Jack’s life worth living, hence the introduction of Renee and Jack’s daughter last season. In other words we’re going to see Jack in the front part of season 8 being happy. But alas, it’s 24, and we know that’s not going to last forever.

Seasons 7 & 8 of 24 are somewhat connected.

Katee Sackhoff is feeling naked in her new role because she needs a gun! Someone, get that girl a gun.

Mary Lynn Rajsub will be back as Chloe.

At this point, we watched a quick preview of hour 1 of day 8. Wow, it looks promising.

Season 8 was tough for the writers to start up as they went through 4 different renditions before settling on it.

Keifer is very involved in the script writing, but usually after the first 2 episodes. Scripts are generated for the first 2 episodes to get the ball rolling, so to speak.

About the preview clip: Keifer said “Don’t be alarmed. We still blow sh*t up.”

Asked about a movie, they said it’s possible, but they’re not going to do much in that direction until they’re seeing more of an end to the series and then they’ll start looking at the possibility of a film franchise.

Katee Sackhoff was hesitant to chat about whether she actually will be toting guns, for fear of giving too much away.

One attendee asked, “When will we see Keifer’s dad, Donald?” Keifer replied “He’s made a 100 some odd movies, you can see him any time you want.” But on the serious side, he doesn’t see that happening, though in season 6 it came real close but a scheduling issue kicked in.

Keifer, in closing showed his gratitude to the masses by saying:

“Thank you so much. this last 8 years have been the best 8 years of my life. Can never tell you how grateful I am.”

This season is more grounded to how he sees things in life. The threat for season 8 centers around a peace conference in the U.N. with the U.S. and Iranian presidents being threatened – and the rest goes from there.

When opportunities present themselves, there’s always a threat in 24.

24 Premieres on Sunday, Jan. 17th and Monday, Jan. 18th.

Meeting Kiefer on Weds April 8th.

I was lucky to meet Kiefer on Weds night April 8th at the Rocco DeLuca/Honey Honey concert in NYC at the Bowery Ballroom. Show was great. Honey Honey was awesome ! and Rocco was just fantastic ! Seeing them both in one night, AND getting to speak with Kiefer……Priceless.

After Honey Honey and before Rocco came on I was lucky to meet and talk to Kiefer outside the venue for a little while. I got to chat with him, and he was so incredibly nice…the sweetest guy. It was great, because I got a few minutes alone with Kiefer that I never expected. He was so incredibly soft spoken and wonderful.

I had bought him a T-Shirt and ironed on the words CAPTAIN DAMM IT on the back. After seeing the interview where he called himself Captain Damm It, I got the idea to make him the T-shirt with the hope that I’d see him at the show and would have the chance to give it to him. I got lucky ! Not only was he there, but I was able to speak to him and even got a chance to give him the shirt.

While I was speaking with him I told him I had made him the shirt and handed it to him. He read the back and really got a kick out of it. We both laughed. He told me he really liked it and thanked me for making it for him. Told me it was sweet of me to make it for him. Told him it was my pleasure and that I was happy to have the chance to see him and give it to him. He was very appreciative. It was really cool to give him something that would make him smile. A chat with Kiefer that I will never forget !

Later after the show, I saw him again outside and he waved to me and said “Hey Lisa” with the T-Shirt in his hand. It was very cool to get a wave from Kiefer !

The following photos and videos are courtesy of Lisa, Thanks Lisa