Erste Infos zu Season 7 vom Executive Producer Manny Coto:
- Sie wollen Jack an einem völlig neuen Punkt starten lassen. Völlig anders, als bisher in vorangegangenen Seasons.
- Es ist gut möglich das die CTU ganz wegfällt. Die Autoren haben es sich durch die CTU beim Schreiben in letzter Zeit viel zu einfach gemacht. Mit der Technik war jedes Problem zu einfach zu lösen.
- Es soll eine völlig neue Art von Bösewicht geben (keine Terroristen). Jemand mit einer dunklen Vergangenheit, der etwas furchtbares getan hat, der zum Ziel hat, seinen alten Status in der Welt wieder zurückzubekommen. (Anmerkung Yvonne: Alles sehr nebulös. *lol*)
- Keine Atombomben
- Sie wollen sich mehr an der Realität orientieren. Persönlicher, emotionaler, schwieriger für Jack
- Es könnte sogar eine Storyline geben, die nicht in den USA spielt.
- Es wird eine Reihe neue Charaktere geben, aber auch alte werden wieder auftauchen.
- Jack wird nicht irgendwo unter falschem Namen leben. Er wird sich an einem Platz befinden, wo er glaubt hinzugehören. Er wird einen Job haben, den er gerne macht und der nichts mit der Regierung zu tun hat.
- keine muslimischen Terroristen
Es wird so gahaaail werden
Zuletzt geändert von Sneedy am Do, 04. Mär 2010, 10:13, insgesamt 1-mal geändert.
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one."
- George R. R. Martin (AdwD - p.452)
- Jack wird nicht irgendwo unter falschem Namen leben. Er wird sich an einem Platz befinden, wo er glaubt hinzugehören. Er wird einen Job haben, den er gerne macht und der nichts mit der Regierung zu tun hat.
das hört sich entweder nach amnesie oder nach "springen wir ein paar jahre in die zukunft" an.
oder vielleicht auch "wir ignorieren die restliche story, die's schon gibt"
I've read the script for season premiere. The shows internal casting agents are having difficulties casting and they are putting all of their efforts into casting the new President and they are hiring out the casting duties for the smaller but still integral parts. So if I was able to get my hands on this you can expect others to do so as well.
Casting early on has been disastrous and a massive script overhaul which re-inserted a White house storyline caused a big shake-up. Originally the season was going to be set in San Diego but the network felt the show needed to do a 180 and they feel a East Coast setting can do that. We've heard there was a big face-off over production costs and the additional units needed for east coast exteriors but the network lifted the budget a tiny bit and they will still shoot the majority of the exteriors in Los Angeles and only travel to D.C. once a month and fit in as much as they can within a 2-3 day period.
STEVEN ARONSON: Aronson is the CEO of a defense company he's in a world of trouble as his company has been exposed as supplying arms to several international terrorist organizations which include Muslim extremist organizations and rogue African nations. Aronson is smart and as always with the show, he's not what he seems to be.
* Some of the actors who have auditioned for this role are Nigel Gibbs (The Shield), Robert Wisdom (The Wire), (The network liked Wisdom as he was placed in another fox show), Matthew St. Patrick, and Eamonn Walker (OZ). Eamonn Walker is the lead choice right now.
PETER WHITMAN: Male, European, 30's or 40's. Whitman is the CEO of the ILO Defense firm and the chief rival of Steven Aronson. These two men have a fierce hatred for each other and they will do anything to bring each others company down and to win an upcoming multi billion dollar Government contract.
* Absolutely nobody has auditioned for this role yet and names are still being compiled. One of the directors of the show is trying to convince the network to look at a seemingly unknown actor I've never heard of named Peter Wingfield.
PRESIDENT ELIZABETH COLLINS: I don't have access to a full character description but she's the new President and she's a woman. Most of her scenes are not in the script I have.
* Sela Ward is the network favorite.
Here's my review:
The show is going in a completely different direction and there is no CTU. This season takes place in Washington D.C., TWO YEARS after day 6. There's a new President and pretty much new everything. The plot finds Jack working for a defense contractor whose got himself in a heap of trouble. It seems that Jack's boss has been exposed as supplying arms to several international terrorist organizations which include Muslim extremist groups and rogue African nations. Jack investigates the source of these allegations and finds himself involved in a conspiracy involving rival defense contractors. So to start things off there's not really much at stake except the survival of a defense contractor's company.
Chloe and Morris work for the mysterious CTU overseer agency Division. The building is a huge new state of the art anti terror building in D.C it even has a daycare unit and this comes in handy as Chloe has baby girl named Gweneth.
The central plot in the premiere is all about Jack trying to find out who is trying to frame his boss. Allegations surface by way of an anonymous source who has provided overwhelming evidence to the media and to federal investigators. We don't really know if Jack's boss is responsible for all of these international atrocities but he's hiding something and Jack knows it.
The very first scene finds Jack making love with a mysterious new female character. This woman is named Nyah and according to the script she's a foreign intelligence operative who is moonlighting for a defense contractor to spy on Jack's bosses company. Jack finishes and he gets up and grabs his clothes and gets ready to leave. He knocks over a vase and it breaks and Nyah cleans it up. Nyah kisses Jack goodbye and says that she will see him tonight. Jack leaves the hotel room and the woman calls a man on her cell phone and tells him that she got the memory card and that she will deliver it to them within the hour. This is the first case of misdirection as we are being led to believe that Jack is being played by this Rhona Mitra looking corporate spy but we quickly realize that Jack is the one that's playing the woman and Jack's people have uploaded a crippling virus onto the card.
Morris O'Brien is working in the Division Operations center. He calls Chloe who is taking care of their child at their home. The calm and serenity of their lives doesn't last for long because alarms start going off at Division and they are getting hacked. Division is defenseless as the hacker accesses top secret files and Morris tries to stop him but there's nothing he can do. Chloe is still on the phone and she guides Morris on how to defend the network and Morris does and he's able to ward off the hacker for now. Morris does a footprint check and he sees that the hacker wasn't trying to access files and that he was only trying to delete a select few. Morris investigates the files and he discovers that they are all involving Jack Bauer and they all focus on his activities over the past 18 months. Morris tells Chloe this and she says she's coming in.
Jack arrives at the Aronson Defense building. Jack goes into Aronson's office and several men are meeting with the Defense CEO. Jack knocks on the door and the men quickly stop talking and they act really shady and Jack watches as they leave the room. Jack briefs Aronson on the the successful operation regarding Nyah. Aronson is happy and he informs Jack that this may give them the edge they need to secure the contract and help subdue Whitman and his operatives. The happiness in the room doesn't last for long and the phones in Aronson's office start to go crazy and his secretary comes in and tells him to put it on Fox News. Aronson does and the reporter is breaking some stunning news as allegations are surfacing that Aronson's company is supplying arms to several international terrorist organizations which include Muslim extremist organizations and rogue African nations. These weapons have killed U.S. soldiers, and countless civilians and the report claims to have overwhelming evidence that directly ties Aronson to the international atrocities. Aronson is furious and he initially claims that the allegations are false but Jack gets the feeling that something might be up. Jack is tasked with investigating the source of the allegations. Before Jack leaves there's an awkward moment where Aronson says "Goodbye Jack". Jack quickly brushes it off.
The White house portions of the script are missing several pages and it's hard to make out what they are trying to do. It appears that President Collins husband is involved in the Aronson scandal and he's trying to manipulate his wife so that the contract is awarded to the Aronson group. There's blackmail involved and Aronson's associates have some embarrassing photos of the President's husband with a white house staffer. The major twist in the Presidential storyline towards the end of the episode is that the President calls Steven Aronson and it appears that she has knowledge of the photos and her husbands infidelity and she is not going to stand by her man, she's throwing him under the bus and she calls Aronson's bluff and challenges him to release the photos. Aronson is speechless and he's in over his head. The President owned him.
The White house storyline also involves Rachel Carlson, a F.B.I. agent who is investigating the President's husband on allegations of sexual misconduct involving several of the low level staffers. I have next to nothing on this but she meets with one of the staffers at a mall in D.C. and something goes wrong. That's all I can find on this story.
Jack is driving around D.C. and his cell phone rings. He answers and the voice on the other end tells Jack that he can help him find the source. Jack agrees to meet with the man but he's very skeptical.
The Peter Whitman character finally makes his appearance towards the end. Nyah arrives at the ILO corporate headquarters and she gives the memory card to a man named Peterson. Jack did his job and the card is infected with a network crippling virus and Nyah's incompetence causes the ILO mainframe to crash and this allows Aronson's hackers full access into their system. Whitman orders Peterson to execute Nyah but a shooter from across the way fires inside the room and Nyah is able to escape.
The final act ends with Jack following the bad lead and he thinks he's about to uncover the source of the information. It's a set-up and there's a massive shootout on a D.C. street and the script adds that we're supposed to see the Capitol building in the far background. Jack kills about five or six guys and he questions the last remaining guy. The man reveals that his people were directly hired by Steven Aronson and their sole task was to eliminate Jack.
That's pretty much the premiere script. I've only got 47 pages so I'm missing a pretty big chuck. There are several characters at Division that I didn't touch on and I will write up a character breakdown when I have the chance.
That's it. Hope they don't change much as it was a really good read. They will still be shooting in Chatsworth and I don't know how they are going to work out the D.C. stuff.
You'll be the first to know if I get any 7.2 stuff. It's very doubtful though.
I should also add that we've been told Bill Buchanan and Karen Hayes will return starting in episode 7.2.
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one."
- George R. R. Martin (AdwD - p.452)
