'24' Movie Will Be in Production Says Kiefer Sutherland

One of the longest running action based TV series might be coming to the big screen.  It's been rumored for a while that the hit show 24, has been in pre-production since April and now, Keifer Sutherland confirms that a movie is pending.

Says Sutherland, "It's a little early for me to say, but some amazing filmmakers have made themselves available to make the film. We're very excited," he said. "It's going to be a bad day and Jack Bauer will somehow find himself in the middle of it."

This movie might be a bit tricky to make as the major part of the show is to give an actual 24 hour sequence of events.  Obviously, the movie can't be 24 hours so I guess it'll just have to jump time to time which might be a little bit weird for the hardcore fans who now have the belief that so much can happen in a 24 hour period.  Says Sutherland,  "The main difference with the film is that it will be a two hour presentation of a 24 hour day...it will not be in real-time, which will free the writers up greatly. It is very feasible to fly from United States to Japan and still have a lot of stuff to do. We could never do that in real-time because the flight is fourteen hours. That would just not be very good watching."

Does this mean some international travel is part of the plot?  Probably not.  Sutherland is probably just giving an example of how they might be able to keep the authenticity of 24 while still making it only two hours long.  Personally, two hours is more than enough time and while the hardcore fans may be disappointed, it can still make for a good action flick.  You just won't see Jack Bauer interrogate a terrorist for 20 minutes at a time. Dang it, my favorite part of the TV series.  

Comments

[J.Bradley]

A movie is a story and a story is about a character. So whatever they do a movie about, it'll be about Jack Bauer. As a fan of the show, I AM curious to see how they pull this off - even how they title the movie. 24 was MADE for the immediacy and episodic nature of tv and to capture the post 9/11 zeitgeist. How they can transition from that medium to one where action movies are a dime-a-dozen, and still keep running distinctively or be shot down fast, will be what's to see of this.

[K, Estep]

24 started before 9/11....

A movie will be awesome to say the least

[J.Bradley]

Actually it came on November 6, '01. There was early talk of canceling it, I remember, because it dealt with terrorism on an airplane in an early episode, but that went away.

[Don Draper]

Actually the first shot in the series is a terrorist on an airplane destroying said plane and bailing. 24 is a great series, honestly what could they do for a movie? I am intrigued.