We loved doing24, executive producer Manny Coto explained at the New York Comic Con panel.
In the footage screened (spoilers ahead!
He was the only person we ever sent the script to, Katz said.
Credit: Ray Mickshaw/FOX
It wasnt supposed to happen like that, but it was pretty great.
Or, as Smits put it, referencing Hawkins performance inStraight Outta Compton: He was Dr. Dre!
For Hawkins himself, though, he just considers it an honor to be a part of the series.
I was such a fan of24, he said.
At that, the audience cheered.
The show has always been very careful to avoid [real life], Katz said.
You never know whos affiliated with what.
So when Gordon proposed having her join24: Legacy, Otto immediately said yes.
I was a huge fan of24when it was on, and I just thought that the script seemed sonow.
Eric Carter is not the new Jack Bauer…
In fact, Hawkins says their backstories are completely different.
And in the footage screened.
The show assumes the story line is still going on over there somewhere.
Either way, the series is definitely rooted in the same place.
This takes place in the24universe, Koto said.
Its all one big world for us.
24: Legacypremieres Feb. 5, 2017, after the Super Bowl, on Fox.
