Jon Cassar to direct Person of Interest episode

This is great news. His experience will be a great asset to “Person Of Interest” and hopefully he will direct more episodes. As for a director for the “24” movie, I like to throw Oliver Stone into the mix. His film “Savages” looks great and having his name to direct the movie will get people talking and generate buzz. Going off topic and this is just a suggestion, but given the lack of “24” movie news lately, maybe this site should be reporting some “Person Of Interest” news to fill the void until some official news on the “24” movie comes out.

Nice article there, Andrew, hope the Kief’ is right and they get the ’24’ movie done next year as planned, and by Kiefer’s statement of needing a director, it looks like they’ve let Antoine Fuqua go.

My own personal first choice for director would still be Jon Cassar, if not, then Joe Carnahan (‘Narc’, ‘The Grey’), and if not him, then Stephen Hopkins, who’s really a natural choice when you think of it, he was part of the series’ inception, helped come up with some of that show’s visual trademarks (the split-screen was his idea), was the lead director of Season 1 and got awards for it, and has extensive feature film experience into the bargain.

Give Hopkins a $40m budget, a thirteen-week production (amounting to about 72 days of filming), and shoot the film digitally (on the Arri Alexa, which has a more film-like look to it than other digital cameras) which would save nearly $2m in film and processing costs, and have it released early February 2014…

And here I was thinking this show can’t get any better! Jon’s a great fit for this & with Michael Emerson under his direction, this is going to be nothing short of spectacular!