frisbeehead wrote:I went to the lecture last night, I talked with him after he spoke, and here is my report:
Howard Gordon, a Princeton alumnus who is an executive producer of the television series "24," will participate in a session titled "Content and Discontent: '24'" at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 21, in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
They don't map out entire seasons and then write them, they write the show about two episodes in advance of when they film them. They're making it up as they go along. I asked how they had Tony Almeida's denouement make logistical sense, and cited the scene at mid-show in the National Mall where Tony said he was going to disappear for a while, and Howard Gordon said that they shot that scene later (there is a considerable lag inbetween shooting and airing).
They didn't even come up with the idea of President Taylor having a daughter until shortly before Olivia's scenes started shooting.
The torture scenes are written entirely out of Howard Gordon's imagination and zero research is done.
He loves all the seasons like they are his children but season six is the "slow child".
They are shooting scenes at the UN for season eight. President Taylor will be there for a conference, the purpose of the conference being to make the world a place where Jack Bauers don't have to exist. They will reference an imaginary country in the middle east.
Howard Gordon's wife is a global warming activist, but the carbon neutral production for last season was Rupert Murdoch's idea. There was no pressure from FOX on it.
