24UK Podcast was granted an extensive tour of the 24 sets (both CTU and the United Nations) with production designer Carlos Barbosa, and they just posted the video which is in four parts.
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Production
I thought this was a pretty cute story and a creative way one of the directors worked around 24‘s limited budget.
What’s better than a book trailer, print advertising, billboards, or television spots for your book? One lucky writer landed a gigantic billboard on the set of the hit television show 24–exposing her book to millions of viewers during one of the final episodes of the popular action series.
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Kiefer talks about filming a special “goodbye” feature for the 24 Season 8 DVD and how he became emotional as the cameras were rolling.
Kiefer Sutherland admits he wasn’t ready when his time on “24″ stopped the week before last.
“We had months to prepare for that last day, and I’d thought of what I wanted to say,” Sutherland tells Zap2it. Now in his last Mondays of playing antiterrorist operative Jack Bauer in the FOX run that ends May 24, he says, “We’re usually running-and-gunning so fast, it’s like, ‘We’ve gotta move on!’ Since we knew it was almost the last scene, though, we were doing extra coverage of my feet, my elbows, my hands … we were making up shots, just to have the next one not be ‘the one.’
“I thought there was still one shot left. Just as I walked out on the stairs for it, they said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, that is a show wrap.’ It kind of caught me off-guard, but I figured,’”Well, I’d better say something.’ It was going to be short, because there was nothing you could say to explain how much all of this meant.”
Sutherland thought he was doing well with that goodbye — which he says was filmed for the forthcoming final-season DVD set — until he “caught the eye of our key gaffer and our key camera operator, and my voice started to go. Then my lips started to go, and I had to look down at my own feet.
“We all went out afterward, and I think it was the shortest night I ever had on the show. We wrapped around 9, went across the street, then everyone was gone by 10.”
Currently reading the script for a “24″ feature-film spinoff, Sutherland will return to movies first with “Melancholia” for writer-director Lars von Trier. The role is “almost as 180 degrees a turn (from Jack) as you can go,” Sutherland vows. “My immediate instinct is, ‘You can’t pick up a gun and chase anybody for a while.’ Not unless you’re playing Jack Bauer in ’24,’ anyway. That would just be too odd … almost icky.”
Source: Zap2It
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Today was the final day of production on 24 after nine years – the end of an era. Very sad to watch this unfold *ahem* in real-time on Twitter with all of the cast and crew saying their emotional goodbyes. It really started to sink in that this was the end. To the cast and crew of 24, thanks for all the memories.
Annie Wersching (Renee Walker):
9 years ago, in 2001 I had just moved to LA and started watching 24 in my beatup studio apt in Hollywood and became a forever Fan. 9 yrs later, after 3 years/2 seasons 24 has again truly changed my life forever…here’s to the end of an era and to truly one of the most groundbreaking, original and kick ass shows of all time!!!!!!!!!!!! (Facebook)
Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe O’Brian):
Wow . These last few days of 24 are intense. I’ve never done anything like this before (tweet)
I’m going to miss all these damn people- 24 family… (tweet)
Jon Cassar (Former 24 Director):
After many years of shooting 24, all over L.A. and Washington DC, at the end of today the cameras will stop rolling, the cast and crew will leave the set never to return and 24 will be take its place on the shelf of television history. Thx to all the fans. U kept us in the game. And 2 the cast & crew of 24, you were the best group of people, period. Enjoy the last few hrs. (tweets: 1, 2, 3)
I’m sadder today about #24 coming to an end then when I left over a year ago. I guess there was comfort in knowing it was still being made (tweet)
Rodney Charters (Director of Photography):
Last shooting day and our last scene is 2424!!! (tweet)
Last scene with ML wow strange disjointed atmosphere on set (tweet)
list of visitors Gary Newman 2oth Chairman Joel Surnow Anil Kapoor Glen Morshower speeches choked back emotion lotta lovin Bye Kiefer (tweet)
Marci Michelle:
Sushi for lunch!Not a bad send off!by the way,the season finale is some of the best acted television I’ve seen!U will not be disappointed! (tweet)
Series wrap on Mary lynn…..ok that hurt…love u ML! (tweet)
It’s a bit weepy here and my sunglasses can only mask so much!
Hurry, someone tell me a joke!;) (tweet)6:56pm and that’s a wrap folks~ (tweet)
the cool thing was, we film out of sequence, and the very last scene we shot was…2424……. (tweet)
Robin Charters (Rodney Charter’s son)
Kiefer seconds away from finishing his last scene on 24 ever… (tweet)
That’s it, it’s over, there is no more #24 (tweet)
Necar Zadegan (Dalia Hassan):
said goodbye to my beloved 24 set today. It’s a wrap… (tweet)
Photos
Rodney Charters also tweeted out a few photos:
- The Last Call Sheet of 24 the Series
- Guy waves good bye as we lv the stage soon to be returned to industrial space
- The lights go out on New York
- The cake
Also check out the “That’s a wrap on CTU” photo/post (thanks to Beau Bowden for sending that in).
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“That’s a wrap on CTU. Taken last night around 10pm PT. These are the season 8, CTU regulars, you may not know by name (or face). Photo taken by Jason Gutierrez.”
Thanks Beau Bowden for sending this in (he’s the guy standing second from right and plays a CTU Field Agent in 24 Season 8).
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