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POPS Jack Bauer's Creator Speaks There are also plans for a 24 theatrical movie, which has already been written, but will only be made once the series is over. I think Jack Bauer has paid a horrible price for having to do the things he does.... It's always done with the dark side attached. But we happen to believe that torture works, in a very simple, simplistic, way. We believe that if your kid was kidnapped and was about to be killed and you had the person who could tell you where that kid was, that if you didn't torture that person to get information, that would be immoral and irresponsible." Nonetheless, Surnow sees Bauer as a "tragic character" who has been emotionally eviscerated over the course of his show as a result of what he has had to do. He's lost his wife, has been estranged from his daughter, and imperiled everybody close to him. This reality has made the show harder than ever to write, because "There's nothing for Jack to love or protect or care for anymore."
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POPS '24' Producer:::Hillary As President Is 'Nuts' Saying that he was “probably going to get behind Rudy" for the White House, Mr. Surnow named comedian Dennis Miller as another entertainer who has “come out” as a conservative in the overwhelmingly liberal Hollywood environment and said that another popular comedian, Adam Sandler “is going to come out and support Rudy Giuliani.”
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POPS24: Torture Nation With the help of the hit TV show, 24 , torture has reached pop-culture (even punchline) status in America. Mayer helps show how Charles Krauthammer's near-non-existent "ticking clock" scenario has been popularized by "24" in such a way as to normalize torture in the public consciousness. In five seasons of "24", there have been sixty-seven torture scenes, and all of them are portrayed as effective, productive, and justified. Military cadets, weaned on '24", now tend to see nothing wrong with it. Soldiers in the field have internalized the show's ethics. One witness to this is Tony Lagouranis, a former army interrogator in Iraq. He tells Mayer that some soldiers in Iraq just replicated the "24" scenes in real life - even though torture is still nominally illegal under American law for the regular military (the Bush administration has created a special CIA torture unit to do the job instead).
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