Kiefer Sutherland Reveals 24 Movie To Shoot This Spring

First Published: January 8, 2012 2:15 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption David Mazouz and Kiefer Sutherland take questions during the Touch panel during the FOX Broadcasting Company portion of the 2012 Winter TCA Tour at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa, Pasadena, on January 8, 2012LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Kiefer Sutherlands new FOX drama, Touch is on its way later this month, but it wont keep the actor from making the 24 movie, set to begin production shortly. The status on the movie hopefully we will be shooting at the end of April, beginning of May, the actor said on Sunday the FOX portion of the Television Critics Association Winter Session in Pasadena. Touch, from Heroes boss Tim Kring, stars Kiefer as a single father, Martin Bohm, who has an 11-year-old, emotionally challenged son, Jake (David Mazouz), who cant communicate through normal methods, but has a unique connection with the world. Kiefer said he wasnt planning to head back to television so soon, but the role of playing a father trying to communicate with his unique son in this drama with a twist, was too had to pass up. The commitment to a television show, in the case of 24, was eight years, so if youre gonna do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in, thats gonna be different and interesting for this next period of time, he said. Even though this series offers many opportunities to play a different character, the real choice to do this was not because I wanted to get away from 24. The reason why I could not turn this down was because it spoke to me on a really profound level. Kiefer said he was emotionally affected by his first reading of the script, and it was his second read of the project that brought him on board. Since signing on, Kiefer said conversations with his boss, Tim Kring, have left him more committed to the project. He had kind of talked about Touch and said, You know, at some point you start to realize you have to be responsible for what youre gonna say, Kiefer recounted. And if there was anything I wanted to be a part of saying, it was kind of the beautiful idea of interconnectivity and the responsibility that we have to each other as people, as a race, and to this planet. And so for all of those reasons, thats why I chose to do the show. A preview of Touch airs on Wednesday, January 25 at 9/8c on FOX. Copyright 2012 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.