Mark Bomback

Mark Bomback, a screenwriter who was hired to rewrite the 24 movie several months ago, is collaborating with former 24 showrunner Howard Gordon on a new television pilot for cable network TNT (after originally pitching it to NBC).

Here is the shows premise, from a TNT press release issued this morning.

Legends – This suspenseful, action-packed drama is being developed by Howard Gordon, Jeffrey Nachmanoff and Mark Bomback from the novel Legends by Robert Littell. The story follows a deep-cover operative named Martin Odum, who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. But his own identity comes into question when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn’t who he thinks he is. Executive Producers: Howard Gordon, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Alexander Cary and Jonathan Levin. Studio: Fox 21.

Production is scheduled to begin this Summer.

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Mary Lynn Rajskub

Mary Lynn Rajskub did a Reddit AMA (which stands for “Ask me anything”) and answered fan questions for an hour. You can read all of them at this link, but here is a collection of all the 24 related questions and answers:

Asked about her favorite season of 24:

I love all of the seasons of 24, my favorite moments seem to be similar to the fans. When I got to shoot that terrorist…. pretty great. not that I’m into guns but I have to admit it was fun. the last season was amazing and very emotional

Who was Mary Lynn’s favorite President on the series?

Dennis Haybert as President Palmer and Greg Itzin as President Logan

When asked about the 24 movie:

I am very excited to do the 24 [movie] and really hope the powers that be can get it together and make it happen! I will let you know as soon as I have any concrete information. I have a new web series called ‘Dirty Work’ that I’m really excited about… maybe it can hold you over until the 24 movie happens!! dirtywork.com let me know what you think.

The forces that be will hopefully allign to create the movie. At which point, you guys will be the first to know. I would LOVE to do it of course!!!!! Chloe and Jack need to be on the big screen

Is Mary Lynn anything like Chloe O’Brian in real life?

No, i can relate to being socially awkward and up in my head, but i’m not good at computers and i don’t like responsibility – but don’t tell my kid that.

Upon being asked about working with Kiefer Sutherland:

What’s Kiefer like off-set: he’s a lovely man. And a mean chess player.

Were her tears real in the final scene of the series finale when Chloe said goodbye to Jack?

yes, they were real tears.

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FOX has officially announced their 2012-2013 lineup and revealed Touch’s new time slot. The show is being moved to Friday night, in what is commonly referred to as the “Friday night death slot“. It’ll air at 8:00 PM this fall, serving as a lead-in to the final season of Fringe.

The first season of Touch was given the benefit of FOX’s largest series American Idol as a lead-in but failed to perform well, losing half its audience within the first few episodes. With the lowered expectations for Friday night programming, it might just perform okay enough to stick around.

As some television critics have pointed out, to add salt to the wound, FOX president Kevin Reilly referred to Kevin Bacon’s upcoming new series The Following as the “new 24“. Ouch.

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No, not the 24 movie sadly. Kiefer Sutherland is in talks to star in a film called Married and Cheating.

The movie follows three couples experiencing infidelity, deceit and confusion. Other actors attached to the project include Sarah Jessica Parker, Eva Longoria, and Brendan Fraser.

Married and Cheating will shoot from July to September, between the hiatus of Touch, which was recently picked up for a second season by FOX.

Should we take bets on how many films Kiefer Sutherland will do before we get our long-awaited ’24′ movie?

Source: Variety (thanks Jack for the heads up!)

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FOX has officially picked up Kiefer Sutherland’s new series Touch for a second season. It’s currently unknown whether it will air during mid-season again or be given a full 22 episode season order. I assume we’ll find out more details in the next few days at FOX’s upfront presentation.

The series has been renewed despite mediocre ratings. After having a successful premiere with 12.01 million viewers, ratings continued to drop every week down to a series low 6.43 million by the seventh episode.

Congratulations to Kiefer Sutherland, Marci Michelle, Nicole Burke, and all of the other former 24 crew who work on Touch. Former 24 director Jon Cassar’s episode airs tomorrow night on FOX.

Source: Deadline

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Mary Lynn Rajskub

Mary Lynn Rajskub (24‘s genius Chloe O’Brian) will guest-star in the 23rd episode of Grey’s Anatomy season 8 titled “Migration” airing on May 10th.

Erstwhile 24 bacon-saver Mary Lynn Rajskub and Lost alum Patrick Fischler will both guest-star in the penultimate episode of Grey’s Anatomy Season 8, TVLine has learned exclusively.

In the episode, airing May 10, Rajskub and Fischler will play a couple in the midst of their third honeymoon when they come to Seattle Grace complaining of mysterious symptoms.

Rajskub, best known of course for her run as 24‘s Chloe, most recently appeared on CBS’ short-lived freshman sitcom How to Be a Gentleman.

Source: TV Line

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HitFix listed 24 as one of the top 10 best shows in FOX network history.

24 Season 3 Promo Pic of Kiefer Sutherland

6. “24″ (2001-10)

Here’s one that seemed like it was doomed right out of the gate, and that was even before the tragic events of 9/11 made the pilot — and, particularly, its climactic passenger jet explosion — seem in poor taste. How, everyone asked, could someone make a real-time drama that told a single story over the course of an entire season? And wasn’t it a bad sign that the show’s writers acknowledged from the get-go that they didn’t have most of the story mapped out in advance? But what seemed like unfortunate timing with 9/11 actually worked in the show’s favor, as it turned out the idea of a lone wolf using extreme methods to battle terrorists was exactly what America was looking for at the time. And though the improvisational nature of the plotting led to occasional missteps like amnesia or the cougar, overall the writers and Kiefer Sutherland made Jack Bauer into the iconic action hero of the ’00s.

Source: HitFix

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Nothing huge, but here is a new tweet from Howard Gordon who confirms he is still involved with the 24 movie in some fashion, and that they’re assessing the “best next steps”.

What that means, no one knows for sure, but it seems likely that the script will require some rewrites in order to bring the film in line with the lower budget that 20th Century Fox is demanding. Kiefer and producers Imagine Entertainment were hoping to have a $45-60 million budget for the flick while Fox is persisting on 30 million.

There will certainly have to be compromises made somewhere and that is likely what Gordon is referring to. Let’s hope they get this stuff figured out sooner rather than later. Thanks Rob for the heads up.

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While promoting his novel Hard Target, Howard Gordon was asked about the 24 movie. “I think there will be. We were going to be shooting it right about now, and the timing just didn’t work out. Kiefer’s doing Touch for Fox. We have a script we like, we’re working on it still, and right now we’re just working on doing it in the next window.”

When host Rosanna Scotto said “We’re hearing that Kiefer could be a little bit of a problem. I’m hearing that he wants too much money and other things,” Gordon responded with “People have expectations, but I think everyone’s on the same page now and I think we’re all moving forward”.

Thanks to Cat from 24heureschrono for the heads up.

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Here is the segment which covered 24 during FOX’s 25th Anniversary Special. They call Jack Bauer the coolest character in all twenty five years of FOX’s drama history!

Enjoy this look back with Kiefer Sutherland, who called Jack Bauer “the character that changed my life”.

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Elisha Cuthbert as Kim Bauer

Entertainment Weekly just did a list of the “20 Most Annoying TV Characters Ever” and unsurprisingly, Kim Bauer made the list in second place.

Kim Bauer, 24 (2001–10)

They called her ”Cougar Trap.” The hapless teenage daughter of terrorist fighter Jack Bauer on 24, Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) had a never-ending series of misadventures that kept distracting our hero from saving Los Angeles. Most infamously, a season 2 nature trek resulted in Kim getting caught in, yes, a cougar trap, then nearly eaten by the very animal the trap was meant to catch. Apparently the cougar was smarter than she was. —James Hibberd

Check out the full list at Entertainment Weekly’s website.

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Antoine Fuqua

With the 24 movie delayed for a year, and news of Antoine Fuqua being offered to direct a new White House thriller movie titled Olympus Has Fallen, some thought that he was out as a potential director. That is not the case according to Deadline, who says that he’s still in the running to direct.

Kiefer Sutherland recently said “there’s a very small pool of directors that we’re interested in working with” and apparently Antoine Fuqua remains one of them.

Fuqua is best known for directing the critically acclaimed Training Day starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.

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Sarah Clarke

It’s a Covert Affairs switcheroo!

24 star Sarah Clarke has replaced Rebecca Creskoff (Hung) as a new mentor for Annie (Piper Perabo) on the USA drama, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

As we reported last month, Creskoff was cast to play Lena Smith in Season 3, but she has now dropped out due to a scheduling conflict. Production is currently underway on the season premiere, but Creskoff had not yet shot any scenes.

Clarke will now play Lena, a legendary CIA operative running her own division who will become an important figure in Annie’s career. But there may be more to Lena than meets the eye.

Source: TV Guide

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Kiefer Sutherland appeared on Letterman and spoke a little about the 24 movie. Check it out below:

“It’s something we’ve been working on, really, from the last season of 24, right up to this point. It was very difficult to get a script in order. We had done 200 episodes of the show, to try and create some kind of finale for us in a two hour film [was difficult]. But we finally got that in order, and now we’ve just been juggling schedules: there are actors we want to use, there’s a very small pool of directors that we’re interested in working with, and it’s just kind of getting all that stuff to work out. So I don’t think we’re going to be able to make it in the window that I was hoping for,” said Kiefer.

When Letterman asks “maybe in about eight months, is that accurate?” Kiefer responded with “That’s what we’re going to do now. In about eight months. I was hoping to be able to do it in about six weeks [from now], which was not very reasonable at all.”

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Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Cuthbert has revealed she was called and approached about being in the 24 movie (finally!) and was told to “be on standby”. Although it’s been delayed since then, she remains confident that it will happen which is sure to be good news for 24 fans.

Looking toward the hiatus, Cuthbert says her plans are currently on hold after the recently announced filming delay for the 24 movie.

“I thought we were going to do the 24 movie but it looks like we’re sort of on hold right now,” she says. “That doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen, it’s just having things all come together to have it work.”

24 was Cuthbert’s breakout role. She played Kiefer Sutherland’s character’s daughter Kim as a regular during the first three seasons of the Fox series, later recurring until its end in 2010.

“I know Kiefer is busy working on his show,” she says. “I think it’s all pretty much there and ready to go, it’s just a matter of when he wants to do it. I’m confident that it will happen because, for a long time, I heard nothing about it and then got a call. They basically said be on standby, and of course I’d be thrilled to do it. We’ll see.”

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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