We now have expanded comments from Kiefer Sutherland discussing why his new drama series Touch is shying away from serialization. He also delivers an update on the status of the 24 movie.
Talking about Touch, Sutherland explained that each episode will feature a new set of characters, taking on a largely contained format:
[Characters who might return would not be] in the forefront of any single episode. There might be a third character, way in the background [in one episode who later comes to the forefront in another episode]. For those of you who watch the show for the 13 episodes, or for the 22 episodes for the year after, if you watch every episode, you might see a character come back. But, for someone who’s got a schedule where they’re catching one episode here and one episode there, they will have a beginning, middle and end. Having done a serialized show like 24, and Tim [Kring] having done a serialized show like Heroes, to be able to do this was a great opportunity. It’s a lot to ask of people, to set aside 24 hours a year to dedicate to one thing, with as many things that are going on in people’s lives.
As for what there is of his character’s overarching journey:
My character’s fight is really with child services, who is trying to take his son away from him. In an effort to communicate with his son, as he starts to isolate numbers, my character starts to figure out, very quickly, what he’s trying to explain. What’s funny is that there are moments when I’m waiting for something to happen and I know something’s going to happen, but I might be looking at the wrong person.
It goes without saying that the relationship between character and son will be vital if the audience is going to have something to invest in.
On the status of the 24 movie, Sutherland reiterates our previously reported late April/early May shooting date.
Is it a conclusion or continuation to the series?:
I see it as a continuation. The script that we’ve got right now, which I’m very, very excited about, is relatively a direct continuation. It’s within six months from the end of the last episode. We’ll see where it goes from there.
2hr, real-time movie?:
It’s two hours, representing 24 hours. The movie is not in real time. It’s a two-hour representation of a 24-hour day.
He declines to say whether everyone from the cast will feature in the movie.
Source: Collider
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“It’s a lot to ask of people, to set aside 24 hours a year to dedicate to one thing, with as many things that are going on in people’s lives”.
While I think the open ended serialized story almost always ends in tears for fans & cast alike, I find this to be a an unbelievably dumb comment.
Really? Nobody’s capable of keeping their attention on an ongoing story one hour a week? And what do they do when they read a book? Read one page then their brain melts?
I’ll watch the show of course, and I suspect that it may become a serialised story the more the writers invest in the show.
But has the average American’s attention span become so short that they’re incapable of even an hour a week? Or have the networks become so overrun by moronic corporate pukes who are selling their audience short, assuming that everyone is as fickle and shallow as they?
Watch the average show and I have a conspiracy theory. The average shot lasts literally five seconds. Next time you watch a show, count in seconds how long it is before the frame changes. It’s like a strobe in some shows.
The networks are so terrified of a viewer’s attention wandering long enough to reach for the remote and change channels that they are (unwittingly?) engineering a generation whose attention span is less than that of a mentally impaired pigeon.
Where will it end – when we become a race of facile morons who can only watch a show the length of an advert?
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I did not watch any of the series until last month,I am between jobs been unemployed for 4 months,so naturally I watch every episode 193 of them in one month,I cant watch anything else,I couldn’t stop watching it,watched the last one today,I feel sick,I need a fix,episode 9 please,Well I am so thankful that I have netflix which gave me this wonderful experience of 24.So intence,everything esle is boring,even touch,I am a true Sutherland Fan Now!Very believable character in Jack,how can you not love him and David Palmer
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