Howard Gordon on 24 movie

Howard Gordon was interviewed about the upcoming second season of his great Showtime series Homeland and the 24 movie. Skip to 2:25 for the 24 stuff if you don’t want any Homeland spoilers – have also written a transcript below.

We were racing to get this thing done. And Kiefer is out promoting Touch. And we’ve got a script that we all finally really liked, and we were talking to directors. And it was all coming together, but it was kind of a run and gun [with Touch]. And to just sort of jam it in, we all felt at the last minute, it wasn’t… It just didn’t feel right to rush, we all feel so strong about this project that we wanted to do it right. But we are very committed to keeping it alive and to doing it hopefully next cycle when Kiefer next gets a break, next year.