FOX begins promoting Touch Season 2 – New Promos

Touch sucks

It’s a horror movie from the director of Insidious.

Not if his shooting a western istead

His first priority should be his fans so I hope not

Which is going to fill up the 24 schedule so this doesn’t look to promising……

The whole 24 movie thing was a disaster from the start. The many setbacks, false starts, budget concerns and the so called script problems with the film. I’ll be really amazed if the 24 movie ever gets made. Kiefer Sutherland and Howard Gordon being quiet on the status of the movie doesn’t help either but we’ll know soon enough when Kiefer appears on Ellen in early Feb. Maybe we’ll get some answers.

“Kiefer appears on Ellen in early Feb” Well that’s assuming 24 will be brought up I’ll be surprised if it is. & If Kiefer still expresses interest in doing it. Givin the huge gap with no news since they last implied what the story would potentially be about. I’m keeping my guard up on this one. But I’ll be happy to be proven wrong.

Well they shouldn’t of let 24 go it’s pretty clear fans don’t want touch they wanted 24 even with info about this movie even. as for Kiefer’s vague answers part of it may be that he may not know himself when or if it’ll get done.

I’m not necessarily saying the greenlighting of the ’24’ movie is ENTIRELY dependent on the box-office returns of the upcoming new ‘Die Hard’ movie, BMAN dude, but it’s clear from the whole postponement episode last year that FOX have, uh, ‘concerns’ about the wider commercial prospects of Jack Bauer’s big-screen debut, wondering whether it will be seen by the audience at large as a product of a bygone decade that’s passed it’s time – like ‘The X-Files’ – hence why they were seemingly willing to greenlight it last year but only with a meager $30m budget.

If ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ does gangbusters business in a February release slot, it might give the studio bigwigs some confidence that a well-known action brand can open and perform well in the dead of winter (although the middling performance of ‘Jack Reacher’ might have blunted that argument somewhat of late), thereby possibly giving them a commercial incentive to proceed with the ’24’ movie for a similar 2014 release… that was the point of my argument.

At this point, I’d settle for a ’24’ movie made on a $35m budget than none at all, there’s no big upfront star/producer salaries, nor is there likely any big CGI-driven action set-piece extravaganzas to sap the budget from more traditional in-camera production values onscreen… get someone like Jon Cassar to direct, on a tight budget and tight shooting schedule (about 60 days should do the trick), and shoot it somewhere cheap like Bulgaria or Serbia, and voila, you have a ’24’ movie made for a tidy little sum that still kicks ass…

The bottom line is that Kiefer Sutherland is not in the strong position he was in back in 2006 when he negotiated the mega-bucks deal to continue playing Jack Bauer through three more seasons, none of his solo films have done particularly well at the box-office, and right now, it is FOX who are in the position of primacy regarding the ’24’ movie where they can give Kiefer and Imagine a take-it-or-leave-it, now-or-never offer, and it’s no loss to them if either don’t take what’s on the table, it would appear at this point that it’s Kiefer and Imagine that want to do the movie more than FOX do, but it’s FOX that hold the purse strings, and he who holds the purse strings holds the world, period.

It may not make a lot of sense to an outside observer, Guest, but you have to understand how the studios think; it’s always about the last film in that particular genre and how well it did at the box-office, everything is comparative.

On it’s face, the ’24’ movie and the new ‘Die Hard’ movie aren’t connected, but both are FOX releases, and to a studio corporate exec who’s as – if not more – concerned with keeping their job as the box-office figures for the studio’s latest release, the two have EVERYTHING in common… look at what happened to FOX Filmed Entertainment CEO Tom Rothman, he was ousted when he rejected ‘Ted’, a comedy made for a relatively small amount that went on to do absolute gangbusters business with another studio, after that, he was gone, period!

Even though the new ‘Die Hard’ is likely to do extremely well, it’s not certain, and releasing it in winter as opposed to the usual summer release may hurt it in comparison to previous installments. But if it does gangbusters, the studio will see the February release date as no obstacle to boffo box-office numbers… and that in turn may grease the wheels for another popular action franchise release, namely the ’24’ movie.

Don’t look at it from a ’24’ fan’s perspective but from a massive entertainment conglomerate’s perspective, for that (unfortunately) is the way the cookie crumbles in the movie industry these days…

… not to mention moving Touch to the Friday night graveyard slot – where series go to die – if I was Kiefer Sutherland I’d be pretty livid with Fox at this point.

Obviously Kiefer doesn’t seem to have issues with fox or he wouldn’t be doing touch. Touch sucks sorry, I don’t by into the premise/concept honestly how does tim cring still write….? Hero’s was terrible & so is touch. I like Kiefer but he needs to go back to where he nails it the best in the action genera. He was great in the sentenal & 24. K so I didn’t see hero’s but I could tell by the previews that it looked terrible. If 24 did well as a series there’s no reason the same thing couldn’t happen to 24 as a movie series. One thing I remember Howard saying about rothmen was he said some thing like Tom wouldn’t do a 24 movie just to do it, he wants to do it because he believes Jack Bauer as a character can stand on his own. & if he still feels that way the Fox should still have interest.

Well I didn’t know that he was no longer in charge….? as I said I’ll be surprised If 24 is brought up with Kiefer’s focus right now on touch. When he starts promoting it again. Guess I’ll have to stick to the closet thing right now to 24. Person of interest all tho they should call it Hitman of interest. & it only makes the most since if they thought 24 did well as a series why would it be any different if it became a movie series. Fox needs to quit playing with Jack Bauer & just make the darn thing….. quit blaming it on money if they realize fans & not just fans but movie goers would see 24 in theaters in a heart beat.

Well at this point I don’t think the script is no longer an issue. It’s already been written & there all happy with it. I think it’s now more about getting ready for the rest.

I’ve heard that Kiefer will begin shooting his western in April or May, I don’t exactely remember (it was in a Brad Mirman ‘s twit).
On other hand I don’t beleive (and don’t hope: I dislike totally this cheesy show) there will be a season 3 of Touch…so may be, after the western, the 24 movie shooting would start.

Brad Mirman has written the mini web series The Confession with Le Kief and John Hurt.
I’ve just read that it will have a lot of change in Touch, with more action…but I doubt it will be better than season 1, so I hope there will not be a season 3 !!

Guys, the thing is fox is scruing with 24 fans.I dont see a movie being made and it’s a shame.One of the greatest series of all times ended in just 8 seasons!I LOVE Jack and it was extremely frustrating that the series ended.At least I wished I’d see 24 in the big screen…They dont give a damn about fans,or about the best hero ever existed in TV…