24 shutting down production for script rewrites
More problems over at 24, as the show is going to shut down production for about a month to rewrite the final season’s scripts.
Apparently Jack Bauer needs a little breather: After the completion of episode 18 on Sept. 15, production on Fox’s hit drama 24 will shut down until October 9th while the writers reshape the upcoming season’s creative direction — specifically the transition leading to the end game. “We had a couple of scripts that we weren’t happy with,” 24 exec producer Howard Gordon tells EW.com. “We just couldn’t get this direction to work, and we found another one that we liked better, so we wound up retooling it.
As you remember, last season had a ton of problems, including Kiefer Sutherland’s DUI jail stint as well as the writers strike that saw last season not happen at all, even though 8 episodes were already filmed. And season 6 was the lowest rated season of the hit show so far.
24 is currently scheduled to return in January 2009, so this new production delay might not result in any part of the season getting delayed aiurdates… supposedly.
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