24 is finally moving away from LA and CTU!!
06-28-07 | 10:52 AM
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How to write a season of 24 by toolbin and additions from other people
1. Get Jack to work, he'll say no, but then have something major happen so he feels compelled to help, even though he'll deny wanting to do it.
2. Have something happen around the President, be it a terrorist attack, assassination, illness.
3. There MUST be a traitor within the President's cabinet.
4. You must find a reason to oust the Director of CTU so they can later help add to a downward spiraling plot.
5. Jack must get caught, kill people, get taken in by CTU, smack around a few employees, and then be the hero again
6. Any major terrorist MUST get immunity.
7. Jack must disappear / take time off / etc...at the end of the show. God forbid we make him work 2 days in a row.
Please feel free to add the plethora of stuff I missed.
1. Get Jack to work, he'll say no, but then have something major happen so he feels compelled to help, even though he'll deny wanting to do it.
2. Have something happen around the President, be it a terrorist attack, assassination, illness.
3. There MUST be a traitor within the President's cabinet.
4. You must find a reason to oust the Director of CTU so they can later help add to a downward spiraling plot.
5. Jack must get caught, kill people, get taken in by CTU, smack around a few employees, and then be the hero again
6. Any major terrorist MUST get immunity.
7. Jack must disappear / take time off / etc...at the end of the show. God forbid we make him work 2 days in a row.
Please feel free to add the plethora of stuff I missed.
07-09-07 | 03:00 PM
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Exclusive: 24 Plot Tossed, Production Delayed
Season 7 of 24 promises to be its most tense yet. At least on the set.
Execs at the Fox hit have scrapped virtually their entire story line for the season, delaying the start of production by roughly three weeks. According to sources, the 11th-hour time-out was called after the network put the kibosh on a costly plan to shoot a number of episodes in Africa. Producers briefly toyed with the idea of finding a location in Los Angeles that could sub for the continent, but they ultimately decided to ditch the whole concept and start over from scratch.
Although a 20th Century Fox spokesperson declined to comment, 24's expert scowler, Mary Lynn Rajskub, confirms that the clock for Day 7 has been reset. "I don't know what's going on over there, but they're going crazy," says the scene-stealer, who only learned last week that Chloe would even be returning. "We usually start [back up] at the end of July, and I don't think we're starting until a couple of weeks into August now. It's kind of exciting, because I think [the postponement] means that they're really having to dig in there and come up with new stuff."
The show's creative team was no doubt already feeling the pressure: Day 6 was considered to be about as explosive as a wet firecracker, so for Season 7 they really needed a plot that was incendiary. In fact, news of the setback comes on the same day the semiannual Television Week critics' poll (in which yours truly participated) named 24 the second worst show on TV, behind ABC's best-not-traveled October Road.
For more on 24's big rewrite — including what impact it'll have on plans to introduce the show's first female president — check out Ask Ausiello this Wednesday.
Season 7 of 24 promises to be its most tense yet. At least on the set.
Execs at the Fox hit have scrapped virtually their entire story line for the season, delaying the start of production by roughly three weeks. According to sources, the 11th-hour time-out was called after the network put the kibosh on a costly plan to shoot a number of episodes in Africa. Producers briefly toyed with the idea of finding a location in Los Angeles that could sub for the continent, but they ultimately decided to ditch the whole concept and start over from scratch.
Although a 20th Century Fox spokesperson declined to comment, 24's expert scowler, Mary Lynn Rajskub, confirms that the clock for Day 7 has been reset. "I don't know what's going on over there, but they're going crazy," says the scene-stealer, who only learned last week that Chloe would even be returning. "We usually start [back up] at the end of July, and I don't think we're starting until a couple of weeks into August now. It's kind of exciting, because I think [the postponement] means that they're really having to dig in there and come up with new stuff."
The show's creative team was no doubt already feeling the pressure: Day 6 was considered to be about as explosive as a wet firecracker, so for Season 7 they really needed a plot that was incendiary. In fact, news of the setback comes on the same day the semiannual Television Week critics' poll (in which yours truly participated) named 24 the second worst show on TV, behind ABC's best-not-traveled October Road.
For more on 24's big rewrite — including what impact it'll have on plans to introduce the show's first female president — check out Ask Ausiello this Wednesday.
07-09-07 | 04:03 PM
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As far as I am concerned, they don't even need to change the setting for next season, though I wouldn't be against it. I'd be excited if they based an entire season on a much smaller issue, such as in the very first season. Each year they try and one-up the previous season, and last season it ended in disastrous results.
07-09-07 | 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by DJariya
Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
I think they might get Glenn Close. She'd be great at it (see AIR FORCE ONE), and she's not opposed to doing TV series.
No matter what they do, I'd like to see "Rolaide" Lynne Kresge (Michelle Forbes), who was uncerimoniously flipped down several flights of stairs in Season 2, return.
07-09-07 | 04:28 PM
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I was all for a change of scenery, but Africa?? That would have costed FOX a fortune, especially for a TV budget. International locations would probably only work for the feature film. But, I'm glad the producers are taking things a little more seriously for next season's story arc.
07-09-07 | 04:47 PM
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...so, my interpretation of the latest news is that they *tried* to come up with a fresh idea for S7 and it imploded, leaving them zero development time and every prospect of an even lamer season to come. Hope I'm wrong.
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07-10-07 | 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by DJariya
I was all for a change of scenery, but Africa?? That would have costed FOX a fortune, especially for a TV budget. International locations would probably only work for the feature film. But, I'm glad the producers are taking things a little more seriously for next season's story arc.
07-10-07 | 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
I'm with FOX...they could just as easily go shoot up in Vancouver and give the series a whole new "look". Africa would have cost the studio millions more...why not just go shoot out in the Mojave and double it as Africa? Where did LOST shoot their Nigeria scenes with Eko?
What's really frightening is the part about Mary Lynn Rajskub not knowing she'd be back til a week before filming was scheduled to begin? Is this how little thought they put into which characters will be on the show? If so, that explains the revolving door of cast members last season.
07-10-07 | 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
I'm with FOX...they could just as easily go shoot up in Vancouver and give the series a whole new "look". Africa would have cost the studio millions more...why not just go shoot out in the Mojave and double it as Africa? Where did LOST shoot their Nigeria scenes with Eko?
07-10-07 | 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by MrX
plans to introduce the show's first female president
07-10-07 | 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by The Bus
That would be very exciting!
07-10-07 | 06:46 PM
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2nd worst show on tv? Come on...be serious. Sure, 24 wasn't very good last year but those idiots really think only 1 show is worse than 24? So all that crap that's on the CW is better than 24? All the crappy reality shows are better than 24? Shows like Drive that only lasted 2 weeks are better 24? Get real.
07-11-07 | 01:00 AM
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How to write a season of 24 by toolbin and additions from other people
1. Get Jack to work, he'll say no, but then have something major happen so he feels compelled to help, even though he'll deny wanting to do it.
2. Have something happen around the President, be it a terrorist attack, assassination, illness.
3. There MUST be a traitor within the President's cabinet.
4. You must find a reason to oust the Director of CTU so they can later help add to a downward spiraling plot.
5. Jack must get caught, kill people, get taken in by CTU, smack around a few employees, and then be the hero again
6. Any major terrorist MUST get immunity.
7. Jack must disappear / take time off / etc...at the end of the show. God forbid we make him work 2 days in a row.
Please feel free to add the plethora of stuff I missed.
1. Get Jack to work, he'll say no, but then have something major happen so he feels compelled to help, even though he'll deny wanting to do it.
2. Have something happen around the President, be it a terrorist attack, assassination, illness.
3. There MUST be a traitor within the President's cabinet.
4. You must find a reason to oust the Director of CTU so they can later help add to a downward spiraling plot.
5. Jack must get caught, kill people, get taken in by CTU, smack around a few employees, and then be the hero again
6. Any major terrorist MUST get immunity.
7. Jack must disappear / take time off / etc...at the end of the show. God forbid we make him work 2 days in a row.
Please feel free to add the plethora of stuff I missed.
1) No matter what the administration is, there is always SOMEONE trying to bring it all down, whether it be via ulterior motives or through a shadowy organization.
2) CTU is, for all intensive purposes, a death trap. Over the years, there have been so many deaths in that building (suicide [Driscoll's daughter], shootings [Nina, Teri, Stephen Saunders], and an assortment of terrorist attacks [car bomb in CTU parking lot in season 4, nerve gas attack in season 5, bombing in season 2, takeover in season 6...hell, even in the game, CTU gets jacked by terrorists]...not to mention idiotic bosses (Alberta Green, Ryan Chapelle) who don't know enough to trust their own agents when they go outside normal protocol.
3) Despite the fact that Jack Bauer has saved citizens in Los Angeles from an ungodly amount of terrorist attacks (including saving David Palmer's life TWICE and his wife and daughter in day 1, foiling a splinter cell terrorist group and stopping a nuclear bomb from detonating in Los Angeles AND stopping the U.S. from going to WWIII in season 2, saving the majority of Los Angeles from a biochemical attack in season 3 AND kicking drugs at the same time, singlehandedly assaulting a bunker to save the Secretary of Defense and his daughter in season 4, thwarting multiple nerve gas attacks in season 5 AND killing more terrorists in season 6), everyone STILL seems to think that he can't be trusted. Come on, give the guy a break for once.
4) Leave it to a terrorist group to think up cockamamie plots that hinge on sheer luck to succeed, and, if the plan goes awry, have the villain escape in the most retarded way imaginable (Stephen Saunders walking down a street to escape in season 3, Habib Marwan running down a flight of stairs to escape invading CTU agents, Marwan driving a car away in the middle of the desert as CTU converges on his position, the terrorist from season 6 sliding down a pole to evade Jack Bauer).
5) If you are a supporting character, and you receive a substantial subplot, about 2/3'rds of the way through a season, don't be surprised if you get written off, are killed, or just disappear for no reason (see: Lynne Kresge, Rick [Kim's boyfriend from season 1], Nina Myers, Ryan Chapelle, Milo, etc.)
That's all I've got.
07-11-07 | 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Rex Fenestrarum
"for all intensive purposes"
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FYI crazyrabbits the correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes".
07-11-07 | 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
I'm with FOX...they could just as easily go shoot up in Vancouver and give the series a whole new "look". Africa would have cost the studio millions more...why not just go shoot out in the Mojave and double it as Africa? Where did LOST shoot their Nigeria scenes with Eko?