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Oh FFS :thumbsd:
Freddie Prinze Jr is to play a Jack Bauer wannabe in the next series of 24.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Scooby Doo star will play Davis Cole, a recently returned Marine, who runs CTU Field Operations and wants to be the next Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland).
Freddie, who is expecting his first child with wife Sarah Michelle Geller, will be a series regular in the eighth season, which began filming this week.
Other new casting editions for the series include Slumdog Millionaire star Anil Kapoor, who plays a Middle Eastern leader, Chris Diamantopoulos, as the president's new chief of staff; and John Boyd as a CTU systems analyst.
Hopefully he's shot and killed in the first episode.
Jeffers
29 May 2009, 23:14
Way to kill a show.
An Inanimate Carbon Rod has more personality and acting ability than "She's all that" Freddie Prince Jr.
Wahooti Fandango
29 May 2009, 23:32
I have been waiting for this show to die ever since it started showing in Australia (2003, I think).
Admiral Afterworld
30 May 2009, 00:13
I don't see the problem although admittedly I can't remember the last time I saw one of his movies.
wce_all_da_way
30 May 2009, 04:06
Geez, please don't try and makeover Chloe and turn her into Prom Queen Freddie, you're a big enough douche as it is.
He'll be a mole (well i hope, even if he's not i just hope Jack Bauer gets tired of his crap by ep 2 and shoots him :p).
Would be pretty cool in a torture scene...
Bauer starts breaking a few fingers
**Thats for making xyz movie**
Bauer begins some shock treatment
**Thats for marrying SMG** :D
err, why is an Indian playing a middle eastern person? Are Yanks that bad at geography?
DoubleO7
30 May 2009, 14:03
err, why is an Indian playing a middle eastern person? Are Yanks that bad at geography?
I take it that you don't watch 'Lost'? Sayid ring any bells?
Americans shows always produce stuff like that.
Case in point - A South African (Arnold Vosloo) playing a fictional Turk (Habib Marwan) in '24'.
Black JuJu
30 May 2009, 14:27
I take it that you don't watch 'Lost'? Sayid ring any bells?
Americans shows always produce stuff like that.
Case in point - A South African (Arnold Vosloo) playing a fictional Turk (Habib Marwan) in '24'.
I don't see an issue, they are actors...
If they can pass as a Middle Eastern character then more power to them.
I take it that you don't watch 'Lost'? Sayid ring any bells?
Americans shows always produce stuff like that.
Case in point - A South African (Arnold Vosloo) playing a fictional Turk (Habib Marwan) in '24'.
yeah never watched lost.
I don't see an issue, they are actors...
If they can pass as a Middle Eastern character then more power to them.
Granted but America being American they are probably going to assume India is now part of the middle east.
There's plenty of Muslim Indian terrorists in the world, it's not exactly a difficult character to make workable. Or just make him Pakistani.
KevinCat07
30 May 2009, 16:07
Yeah I don't like the sound of Freddie Prince coming to 24, none of his stuff comes to mind that I have liked.
SunKing
30 May 2009, 19:19
He wasn't too bad in Boston Legal.
cowboy18
30 May 2009, 22:50
You of course forget his outstanding work in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
It would be wonderful to have the greek/lebanese/saudi/indian terrorist look to the camera in the final episodes and exclaim "I would have got away with it if it wasn't for you darn kids" after they peel back his mask to reveal that it was Bill Buchanan all along.
Golding
30 May 2009, 23:31
I thought CTU was closed a few series ago?