"24" details season 8
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'24' Day 8 details: Bauer tries to stop assassination
By Borys Kit
“You’re going to a '24' panel?” asked me a producer of tentpole
movies. “Does anyone still care?”
That attitude is what Season 8 (or should I say Day 8) of the long
running show has to overcome when it debuts this January. But at least
the four or so thousand attendees of Ballroom 20 definitely cared.
Show has been timely and this year will not be an exception: Jack
Bauer tries to keep an assassination from occurring during a peace
conference between the presidents of America and Iran.
The season will start, according exec producer Manny Coto, “in a place
where we’ve never seen him: happy.” But the crowd was reassured
several times that it wouldn’t last.
Series Big kahuna Howard Gordon kept the exec producers and his
actors, which included newcomers Katee Sackhoff, Freddie Prinze Jr.,
and Anil Kapoor along with May Lynn Rajskub, in check to not reveal
any plot points, leaving them to rely on their charms.
Luckily, they had some to spare: Rajskub was genuinely funny, while
Sackoff had the crowd eating out of her hand due to her “Battlestar
Galactica” credentials. Prinze got some love when he mentioned how he
was watching the show with his wife. He was interrupted by huge
screams and applause from the audience, causing him to snort in
laughter. “I forgot, she’s big here.” (Prinze married to Sarah
Michelle Gellar, the star of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”)
Sutherland touched upon a possible “24” feature film saying that is
something that has been brought up since the early seasons. But he
said, the energy required to make a season of “24” is too great to
allow a movie to be worked on.
“We agreed that any real serious planning of a film that the put aside
until the series is ending,” he said.