Kiefer Sutherland does Jack Bauer-inspired advertisement for Acer

Very funny but is Kiefer doing only commercials now ????

Funny indeed, adverts pay very well Catherine, that’s why many actors do them. Anyone else notice that L.A. location they shot in is the exact same place they shot the air strike against Stephen Saunders in the third season…?

Anyone have a mirror?

Gerry, I’ll answer that question if you stop calling Kiefer Sutherland the Kief’. Nobody else calls him that, it’s not his nickname. Plus it takes less effort to write Kiefer. Also, HoGo is even worse.

@Gerry yes, I think you’re right, may be Kiefer wants to match his father’s career..Oedipe Complex ;-)
He said in an interview that his father made cinema, and he, makes movies. He means, I think, cinema is author films like Felini’s Casanova.
But it’s a pity, he’d have been a great movie star !

And by the way, in France,journalists call Kiefer “Le Kief” :)

Ha! This is great.

I just wish Donald Sutherland had played Philip Bauer in Season 6 as they originally wanted, but he didn’t want to have an adversarial role against his son, and thought that the Jack-Philip Bauer relationship should have been more akin to the one between Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’… on that, I think Sutherland Sr was absolutely correct, the plot involving Philip Bauer’s kidnap of Josh was a major narrative misstep early in that season (as was wasting the mighty Paul McCrane by killing Graem far too soon), and even Howard Gordon has admitted as much.

Le Kief and his father can film their planned Western any time that’s convenient for them both, just as long as Junior shoots the ’24’ movie beforehand…

Great minds must think alike Catherine :-), I always thought exactly the same thing about Season 6, there was an awful lot of yearning going on, WAY too much; you had (as you pointed out) the enamored sis-in-law, you had the Bill Buchanan-Karen Hayes marriage, you had the Martha Logan-Aaron Pierce relationship, you had the simmering Nadia-Milo then the Nadia-Doyle tryst, as well as the Chloe-Morris relationship, phew, it was just testosterone overload… and that’s not even mentioning the whole evil brother/father plot which completely and unnecessarily sidetracked that season away from the nuclear threat, and put it off track in a way that was hard to recover from, but Howard Gordon has said as much recently, a pity, that season could have been a knockout (like the first four episodes were), but you’re right about the ending, the BEST ending in that series’ history;; powerful, sad, and utterly compelling, awesome stuff…

Why are you losing hope about the movie Catherine, it’s only been put back until next year (for whatever reason), the script is finished and Howard Gordon says FOX still very much want to do it, I hope he’s right, but if you don’t hear any news regarding the movie by around February next year, then I think you should start worrying, but until then, keep the faith, it will happen, although how much money FOX deem it to be worthy of is another matter entirely…

I completely understand your misgivings regarding the movie, Catherine, and you’re right about always hearing the “next year, next summer, next whatever” line coming from Le Kief since about April or May of 2010.

But the difference between then and now is the fact they now have a completed script (which they didn’t have until about March/April of this year), the fact they were SO close to production last year, and the fact that by postponing the film until 2013 they had another year – about four months now – to get any last disagreements and/or details ironed out and a director hired before pre-production simply MUST begin if they want to be ready to begin filming once Le Kief wraps work on ‘Touch’ next April.

I still have faith it will absolutely happen, I share both your own and Le Kief’s obvious frustrations about the seemingly never-ending delays in the film’s development, but I am next to certain it WILL happen next year, I think FOX (for all their penny pinching and dragging of heels in greenlighting the ’24’ movie) do want to do it, they see a solid box-office return for relatively modest expenditure, and studios simply love that equation…

It will happen, we just have had to wait considerably longer than anyone (Le Kief included) had expected before it’s finally released, which I’m still hoping will be a late October 2013 release. Whenever it’s released, I’ll just be relieved when we read that it’s actually been greenlit and is a definite go…

Firstly, gotta correct myself, I said they were SO close to production for the ’24’ movie last year, I meant THIS year… sorry, I’m already twelve months too far ahead, woops!

Loving all the appreciation expressed for the ending of Season 6, been saying it here for ages it’s the best ending in the series’ entire run, and I’m on a one-man crusade to convince people that season wasn’t nearly as bad as it’s reputation suggests, still was a significant drop in quality from previous and succeeding seasons, but still pretty good if not necessarily great…

Steve, Kiefer Sutherland (or Le Kief, as he’s referred to here, credit to Catherine) has said the upcoming movie will be “a two-hour representation of a twenty-four hour day”, will not happen over real time, and is the first film of a proposed three-film story arc. I don’t think any Presidents from the series will be in the (first?) movie, but Chloe and Kim Bauer will…

The two Palmer are dead, Keeler too (or in bad condition) and Taylor must be in jail ;-)

Howard gordon has said the current issue at hand is kiefer’s schedule.

Well, regardless I was just making the simple point that we know a little more about the movie that was pretty vague a year ago. On top of that Touch has been moved to 2013. Fox did not give out a reason for the move but could be a number of reasons. But givin the move it’s possible it could give Kiefer room for the movie… which could result in touch wrapping early because of the move. But it’s nothing more then a theory/speculation.

I wholeheartedly agree there, BMAN dude, if they want to be up and ready to start production the earliest opportunity they get once Le Kief wraps ‘Touch’ in April, they would probably need to be officially greenlit by FOX and start the active pre-production process by January at absolute latest, but even that is still cutting it too tight, it would be infinitely preferable to get the greenlight and start in November, giving them five solid months to get prepped and ready, and cameras set to roll by late April.

And speaking of potential directors, I second that motion of John McTiernan for the ’24’ movie; not only is he one of the finest action directors in recent memory, let’s face it, he needs the work after his, uh, ‘legal difficulties’, and he wouldn’t or couldn’t demand an A-List salary like he used to, so we would be getting a first-rate action director at a bargain price… although the fact he hasn’t directed a movie in ten years might be a cause for caution, but if it’s McTiernan, I’m there!