Jack Bauer’s big day is getting a little more interesting: Fox has filled a role for an infamous hacker character in its much-anticipated 24 reboot Live Another Day.
The character is called Adrian, and he’s described as a charismatic hacker and a leader of the free information movement. The part naturally brings to mind Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Veteran feature film actor Michael Wincott (The Count of Monte Cristo, Alien: Resurrection) has been cast. This marks the first confirmed new casting for Live Another Day apart from the returning characters.
Wincott and Sutherland recently worked together in the movie Forsaken directed by 24‘s Jon Cassar.
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Comments ClosedGerry Mander
November 19, 2013 at 11:08 pmMichael Wincott is one of the absolute BEST and most memorable character actors – not to mention one of my very favorite to boot – you could pick for any film or television series, much less ’24’. I remember seeing him in Ridley Scott’s vastly underrated ‘1492: Conquest of Paradise’ as well as in ‘The Crow’ and I was hooked with that guy… he was the ONLY good thing (well, the always great Dan Hedaya too, who would’ve made a great Charles Logan if Greg Itzin had been unavailable) about the execrable ‘Alien Resurrection’ and that film died for me the moment his character did!
So I guess the threat in ‘Live Another Day’ is going to be a hacker/cyber-terrrorism one, how very timely! Okay, I’m now one excited puppy for this series, Ozgur may not think this going to be good, but I say right here, right now that this is gonna be GREAT!!!
Jack
November 20, 2013 at 5:25 amFrom Toronto and starred in the Threee Musketeers with Kief? He must have suggested him.
Teddy
November 20, 2013 at 12:35 pmCatherine
November 20, 2013 at 3:14 pmTJ
November 21, 2013 at 2:07 amAs for Wincott, he’s always played that creepy kind of role suited as a villain.
TJ
November 21, 2013 at 2:10 amGerry Mander
November 21, 2013 at 9:37 pmI seem to remember my saying that the ’24’ writing team did the cyber-terrorism angle right with Season 7’s CIP device plot, but I wouldn’t cite ‘Die Hard 4.0’ (as it was called outside of North America) as an example of cyber-terrorism done correctly; that film (and it’s recent successor) completely forgot what made the character of John McClane what he was… a reluctant and flawed hero in the wrong place at the wrong time and someone who would rather do anything BUT tackle the bad guys single-handedly but had no choice to because of circumstance thrust upon him! They turned him into a veritable indestructible superhero without the cape and cowl, something those first three glorious ‘Die Hard’ movies did not do… plus they upped the ante to the point of absurdity (jumping off an exploding jet fighter onto solid concrete and coming away unscathed indeed!), and that’s why it isn’t a good example, at least I don’t think so!
Because of the cyber-crime angle on this one, and because we know that computer whiz Chloe was arrested by the feds for her part in Jack’s getaway from New York, I’m thinking we may see a very, very different Ms O’Brien next year… and not necessarily an altogether willing accomplice to Jack like before, but I could be wrong!
Gerry Mander
November 21, 2013 at 9:41 pmXAM
November 21, 2013 at 11:01 pmShaun Clark
November 22, 2013 at 11:52 amOverall it’s good we getting some casting news! Just hope Tony makes a return but reading past news, it seems he is not returning for this limited series. Glad Chloe and Audrey are returning though and Can’t wait to see Jack Bauer back in action again. looking forward to the new series of 24, can’t wait.
Seba
November 24, 2013 at 6:40 pmI think that with this kind of characters, in London, there will be an interesting history. I think that they will bring back Theo Stoller.
24marathonman
November 25, 2013 at 7:15 pmDRod
November 25, 2013 at 7:31 pmSeba
November 25, 2013 at 7:37 pmTeddy
November 30, 2013 at 1:07 pmMy dead list
1. David Palmer
2. Bill Buchanan
3. Teri Bauer
4. George Mason
5. Renee Walker
Jack
November 30, 2013 at 1:45 pm24bauerfan
December 1, 2013 at 8:35 amCatherine
December 2, 2013 at 5:20 amMarlon
December 2, 2013 at 2:46 pmMaybe Palmer a close second.
Gerry Mander
December 2, 2013 at 9:08 pmOnce a character is killed off, I never want to see them return or lament the fact they won’t, ’24’ has always been about forward momentum, and whether the ’24’ saga ends with the upcoming new series (as I’m inclined to think it maybe should) or continues on after, it should ALWAYS be about looking forward and to the future not backward and to what’s passed… and the ’24’ producers agree with that, which is why they have consistently shot down any notion of a prequel, and rightly so!
24marathonman
December 3, 2013 at 10:31 pmI would ask:
1. In LAD, will Audrey Raines use a firearm?
2. Are any of David Palmer’s family or offspring involved in LAD?
3. In LAD, are the antagonists familiar to 24 fans or all new or a mixture of both?
4. In LAD, are any former Presidents mentioned in the dialog.
Gerry Mander
December 4, 2013 at 1:53 am24bauerfan
December 4, 2013 at 4:33 amGerry Mander
December 4, 2013 at 11:23 pmSeasons 6 and 7 plus the aforementioned ‘Redemption’ were all shot on Super 35, a higher grade (and therefore more expensive) stock mostly used for feature films, but after the credit crunch in 2008, FOX like every other studio had to tighten their belts monetarily, hence why Season 8 returned to a less expensive film stock… although one that I thought looked just as good as Super 35 (which I’ve always found overtly grainy at times), especially in daylight exteriors, and one better suited to the much quicker schedule of television!
Either way, I hope ‘Live Another Day’ is shot on film… higher resolution, richer colors, better image… and as television is a visual medium, shouldn’t that be what it’s all about when deciding?
Chris
January 28, 2014 at 3:28 pm24marathonman
December 7, 2013 at 8:53 pmGerry Mander
December 8, 2013 at 1:55 amFury was also asked about a possible return for a certain former agent Almeida, and he said “not so far, but who knows where the arc will take us”… this is actually surprising in that I thought they would have had the complete story locked in at this point, but if not, there may still be a chance for Tony to return!
Teddy
December 8, 2013 at 3:02 pm24marathonman
December 8, 2013 at 3:42 pm24marathonman
December 8, 2013 at 3:52 pmGerry Mander
December 8, 2013 at 8:44 pm‘Person of Interest’ for example is shot digitally but you wouldn’t know it to look at it, it’s a very clean, crisp, and natural image that doesn’t show any of the usual cold, sterile, and artificial traits that digital often has in the past, both distant and recent (the first ‘Hobbit’ movie last year for example, which had a distractingly sharp and unnaturally high-contrast image).
Whilst I prefer the warmth, richness, and overall texture of a 35mm image (depending on what film stock is used), the fact that ‘Live Another Day’ will be shot digitally doesn’t bother me in the slightest, it won’t have any bearing on how good the actual series will be… and the majority of people won’t even know or notice the difference between the film-shot past series’ and the digitally-shot new series!!!
I can’t speak for Blu Ray vs DVD image quality, I have a DVD player and it suits me just fine and dandy, although I have heard complaints from some about those pesky BR menus… which has put me off upgrading to the new format, at least with DVD you know you’ll get great image quality with none of the technical issues that come with new formats, plus DVD’s will be around for a LONG time to come, I’m not sure if that will be the case with BR!
Teddy
December 14, 2013 at 11:23 amCarlos Bernard had dinner yesterday with high ranking officials of 24. The return of Almeida maybe?
DRod
December 14, 2013 at 7:47 pm