"I’m involved intimately with all of the drafts and with all of the people, including Mark Bomback on the rewrites and with Kiefer Sutherland," revealed executive producer Howard Gordon in a recent interview with
Deadline about his latest small screen production,
Homeland.
"There are a lot of people involved from Imagine and 20th. I’ve kind of been enlisted as the keeper of the flame from the TV show and representing it in its next iteration. I’m not sure what kind of credit I’ll be having on it yet."
As with most shows that air for a considerably long time (in
24's case from between 2001 - 2010) the ratings eventually started to decline and the Fox series was eventually brought to an end with a finale which laid the groundwork for a big screen continuation. As for whether Gordon is now concerned that the recent box office slump may effect the chances of its success, he replied:
"You know, Tom Rothman is a very smart guy. He wouldn’t do a 24 movie just to do it but only if he honestly believed it could stand on its own. So I’ll leave that part of it in his capable hands."
"I’m still twitching from doing 24. We all are. It was traumatic. I’m still experiencing some TV PTSD," he revealed when talk turned to the challenges of making a show like
24.
"There was so much energy that needed to be expended in order to tell that story in terms of format. We felt obligated to tell it until its end. I think I’ll always carry that pressure around. But it also took 24 much longer to become what it became. It’s seemed to happen much more quickly and steeply for Homeland, which is particularly surprising since the show isn’t on a broadcast network."
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