The 24 Writing Process and Season 7 Updates
In this article the 24 writing team (Michael Loceff and his cousin Joel Surnow) talk about the process of creating a 24 episode. It’s really funny!
There are constant re-writes. Loceff says "the problem with that is, when you do all the squeezing and throwing out, and squeezing and throwing out, by the time you are done, you have squeezed 6 episodes of work into one episode, so you no longer have stories for 5 episodes." Or an episode may end-up several minutes short. That’s when the race begins to think of additional story lines and finish writing, whether it’s at Loceff’s Kingston home or the writing room, which is in the same building as CTU’s studio in Chatsworth, California. Loceff says "a lot of paper-balls get tossed around. There’s people doing spit-balls at each other."
But Loceff’s got a writing system down pat with his cousin Joel Surnow, a co-creater of "24". Surnow sits at his computer and types while Loceff circles the room spewing out lines. Sometimes they use ideas they’ve saved. Loceff says "let’s see uh, the President’s wife is having an affair. Can we use that? Uh, no that didn’t work. We pull out one after another ideas, things, that we want Jack to say or do. Jack in group therapy? Not yet."
Loceff tells us Season 7 will focus on smaller and more intense story lines. but the specifics are still a mystery, even for Loceff and the writers. Read more of the article here.
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