I’ve just finished up watching the first episode in the new season of the highly anticipated return of 24, and boy is it a belter (catch up on our series blog here, but beware of spoilers). You may remember a little while back of a plan to bring a 24 movie to screens, but it all went a little quiet on that front, with the show’s creators opting for a [potential] final series instead. But could that movie still go ahead?
The show’s star, Jack Bauer himself, Kiefer Sutherland, caught up Screen Daily, to put some rumours to bed.
Referring to the planned movie, Sutherland said:
“We had a look at that. There are multiple reasons why that didn’t happen and I don’t know all of them. 20th Century Fox is a very big company. We work with the television side. The film side is a whole other area.
But in season eight, when [Jack] looks up into that camera and has a 15-minute window to ‘go dark’ and disappear, that was a setup for a potential movie.
I think one of the reasons why Howard [Gordon] wanted to do these twelve episodes and where the idea came for him to write was to end it and bring a sense of closure to the show. That was a big part of it. So I don’t see a film shaping itself around what we’re doing right now.”
So, does that mean that this season is the last; the end of 24 forever?
“The last thing you want to do is damage the legacy of a show you’ve put to bed. We had put this to bed for a reason: Howard Gordon, our lead writer, was tired. He had written 196 episodes – the equivalent of 100 movies – in an eight-year period. That gave me pause for thought. But now we’re almost finished I’m so glad, and arguably we’ve made the best season ever.”
24: Live Another Day is screening on Tuesday evenings on Fox in the US, and on Sky Atlantic in the UK on Wednesday nights at 9pm. You can read our updated series guide, The Bauer Blog after the close of credits on the UK broadcast, right here.
Source: Screen Daily
