Former 24 writer and executive producer David Fury (who I consider the best 24 writer in recent years – he gave us Logan’s “That’s Jack Bauer!” scene and Fayed’s death episode among others) has announced via Twitter that he has joined the production team of FOX’s Fringe.
This puts him back under the Bad Robot umbrella – he used to work as a writer on a little show called Lost before joining 24.
For those keeping score... I'm back under the Bad Robot umbrella... New writer-prod on a little show called FRINGE. Couldn't be happier.
Disclaimer: This was an April Fools Day joke and isn’t real, but don’t you wish it was? Thanks to all those who shared this post and made it hugely successful. If you want to read last years prank, check out Justin Bieber joins cast of 24.
Surprising news – FOX has announced that 24 is coming back for another season. Here’s the full press release:
JACK BAUER CLOCKS BACK IN ON A BRAND NEW SEASON OF “24″ Emmy Award-winning series returns January 2012 with all new episodes
The innovative, addictive, Emmy Award-winning television series 24 resets the clock for “Day 9″ with a special two-night premiere event beginning Sunday, Jan. 15 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. The season will unfold without repeats, airing all originals through the season finale in May.
Set six years after “Day 8″, Jack Bauer travels to Berlin to assist German Intelligence agent THEO STOLLER (Henry Ian Cusick) with his investigation of a former Nina Myers associate, KATARINE FISCHER (Franka Potente). [click to continue…]
Surprising news! 24‘s Kiefer Sutherland a.k.a Jack Bauer himself has joined Twitter over at @RealKiefer – it’s a verified account so you know it’s really him. Go follow!
Also, former 24 writer and executive producer David Fury has joined Twitter as well, check him out at @Dfury. He’s the guy who wrote one of the all-time best 24 scenes, “Darth Bauer” attacking Charles Logan’s motorcade (“That’s Jack Bauer!”) among others.
While this probably doesn’t come as a surprise to 24 fans, the series has made Cracked.com’s list of “6 Classic Series You Didn’t Know Were Made Up on the Fly”. Other shows included on the list are Star Wars, The X-Files, 2004′s Battlestar Galactica, Twin Peaks, and Lost. Here’s what they had to say about 24:
Supposedly …
Everyone who first heard the concept of 24 (that each of the 24 episodes would represent one hour in a single day, told real-time) thought it would either be the coolest damned thing ever or a ridiculous gimmick. Where normal dramas like House have a new story line (or patient) every week, each season of 24 would be like one 24-hour-long action movie, with one continuing story.
This of course made for quite a challenge on the writing end, since they’d need to carefully map out exactly what was going to happen during that season’s “day,” just as they would with a film. Otherwise you wind up with a confused mess with ridiculous plot turns they were forced to pull out of their ass when they wrote themselves into a corner.
But Actually …
Jack Bauer stares at nuke in 24 Season 6
Early in Season 6 they had a nuclear bomb going off in Los Angeles and killing at least 12,000 people … only to be forgotten a few episodes later. That is, a few hours later. In the world of 24, America gets over an attack four times the size of 9/11 before the emergency response even gets fully under way. Did the writers really plan it that way?
To quote writer David Fury, they were just “winging it.” He says that worked out fine because they got good ratings doing it: “In the early seasons of 24, [the writers tried] to map out stories and arc out stories [beforehand] a little bit more than they did, say, in seasons four and five, and four and five turned out to be two of most successful seasons.” [click to continue…]
Here’s an excellent behind the scenes article about the many challenges the Terra Nova crew has faced. Terra Nova is an upcoming FOX series by many former 24 crew members – Brannon Braga is showrunner, Jon Cassar is attached as the series regular director, production designers Joseph Hodges and Carlos Barbosa built the elaborate sets, and actor Mido Hamada (24‘s Samir Mehran) stars in a regular role.
The producers then brought on “24″ writers Brannon Braga and David Fury to rework it. Mr. Fury soon left. “I had issues with the DNA of the project and because there were so many chefs in the kitchen,” he says. Yet another writer was brought in, René Echevarria of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
On Sunday (Dec. 12), a large group of friends, family and colleagues gathered at the Darryl Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox studio lot in Los Angeles, Calif., to pay tribute to casting director Peggy Kennedy, who died on Friday, Dec. 3, at the age of 65 (a number which, during her life, appeared to have been a source of comic dispute) after a brief battle with cancer.
Now that the new TV season has started I thought it would be interesting to take a look at where the 24 crew went after the series ended a few months ago. Fans that have watched the DVD bonus features probably know that the cast and crew were very close to each other, and that’s proven by this list – many of them chose to work together on future projects.
Dexter
Chip Johannessen became showrunner of Showtime’s hit series Dexter last December, and brought along some 24 crew with him including Manny Coto (writer and executive producer), director Milan Cheylov, costume designer Jim Lapidus, and the Emmy-winning David Latham (editor). One of his first orders of business was creating a new recurring character named FBI Agent Walker – nice! Also look out for Peter Weller (Christopher Henderson from Season 5) to show up soon as a recurring character.
Fox’s ambitious “Terra Nova” is losing one of its big-name writer-producers. Sources say “24″ veteran David Fury is off the series.
Fury was one of several heavy hitter producers on the prehistoric family drama, along with fellow Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga, Jon Cassar, Aaron Kaplan and Katherine Pope.
Sources say Fury, who was collaborating on the pilot script with Braga, left due to “creative differences.” Braga will remain the showrunner.
The show recently added Allison Miller (“Kings”) to the cast along with previously tapped star Jason O’Mara.
The shakeup comes after “Terra Nova” was already pushed back from its original midseason launch plans. Fox plans to air the pilot in May, then launch the show in the fall of 2011.
Not such a good sign to have an extremely talented writer such as Fury quit over “creative differences” early on. In some more upbeat news, Joseph Hodges (production designer on 24 seasons 1-7) has apparently joined Terra Nova as well.
Looks like another show to watch – Jon Cassar is one of the best directors out there, and David Fury is a very strong writer. Nice little 24 reunion on this show which sounds pretty interesting. Congrats Jon!
EXCLUSIVE: It will be an even larger 24 reunion on Fox’s upcoming prehistoric drama Terra Nova, which is executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin. Long-time 24 director-executive producer Jon Cassar has joined the 13-episode midseason series as an executive producer and regular series director. He joins fellow 24 executive producers Brandon Braga and David Fury who are executive producing Terra Nova. (Braga also serves as the series’ showrunner). Cassar, who won an Emmy for his directing work on Fox/20th TV/Imagine’s 24 and shared the show’s 2006 best drama series Emmy, will direct multiple episodes of Terra Nova following the pilot episode, which is being helmed by Alex Graves. “This is a huge coup for us,” said Dana Walden, chairman of 20th TV, which is co-producing Terra Nova with DreamWorks TV, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Chernin Entertainment. “Jon is one of the best directors we have ever worked with, and this project is a huge priority for our company.”
Jim Halterman: You’ve worked on ‘Lost,’ ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Angel’ before ’24.’ Since those were very different genres, how did you make that transition?
David Fury: It was definitely a big difference going to ’24′ from the others shows I had been on. ’24′ is a runaway train of action, conspiracies with interweaving in [and] it was a challenge. They brought me in to try to find the more human stories within all the action and to try to track and find emotional life in these characters even while they’re disparaging orders in CTU. By the time I came on in year 5 of ’24,’ Jack had been through so much. One of the reasons I was there – [Co-Creator/Executive Producer] Joel Surnow told me – was they had watched one of my ‘Lost’ episodes and I did so much with nothing. What he was referring to was there was no real plot in the elements of ‘Lost.’ It might just be a scene between two characters and he found that compelling.
JH: How’s the process been with ‘Terra Nova’ after spending so much time on ’24?’
DF: It’s pretty amazing after five years to go back to writing a script of a different kind. I’ve been stuck writing in the real time of ’24′ and to be able to use flashbacks, time cuts, being able to add different perspectives… it’s almost like relearning the craft of writing because ’24′ beat it out of me.
In attendance were Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub along with new cast members Katee Sackhoff, Freddie Prinze Jr, and Anil Kapoor, writers Howard Gordon, David Fury, Evan Katz, Manny Coto, and Brannon Braga and composer Sean Callery.
24-7: The Untold Story was a special feature included on the 24 Season 7 DVD set.
It includes interviews from 24 writers Howard Gordon, Manny Coto, Evan Katz, David Fury, and Brannon Braga. They talk about scrapped plotlines for the seventh season of the show, the Writers Guild of America strike, and more.
24 Season 7 DVD Audio Commentaries
May 19, 2009 · 0 comments
Here are all twelve audio commentaries from the 24 Season 7 DVD.
24 Season 7 Episode 1 commentary by Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida) and director Jon Cassar:
24 Season 7 Episode 3 commentary by Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida) and writers Brannon Braga, Manny Coto:
24 Season 7 Episode 5 commentary by director Jon Cassar and Annie Wersching (Renee Walker):
24 Season 7 Episode 9 commentary by writer David Fury and Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Iké Dubaku):
24 Season 7 Episode 10 commentary by Annie Wersching (Renee Walker) and writers Brannon Braga, Manny Coto:
24 Season 7 Episode 12 commentary by director Brad Turner and Tony Todd (General Benjamin Juma):
24 Season 7 Episode 13 commentary by director Brad Turner, composer Sean Callery, and James Morrison (Bill Buchanan):
24 Season 7 Episode 14 commentary by Annie Wersching (Renee Walker), Bob Gunton (Ethan Kanin), and writers Evan Katz and Juan Carlos Coto:
24 Season 7 Episode 18 commentary by Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida), writer Howard Gordon, and Jeffrey Nordling (Larry Moss):
24 Season 7 Episode 22 commentary by writer Evan Katz, Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe O’Brian), and Glenn Morshower (Aaron Pierce):
24 Season 7 Episode 23 commentary by writers David Fury and Alex Gansa, and Glenn Morshower (Aaron Pierce):
24 Season 7 Episode 24 commentary by writer Howard Gordon and director Jon Cassar:
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