Kiefer Sutherland Reveals 24: The Movie, Is Coming

Actor Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed that a 24: The Movie is in the works. They are working on the script right now and he says that they might be shooting this summer. The movie obviously won’t take us hour by hour like the tv show but Sutherland believes that it would be a summary of what took place over a period of 24 hours. He also believes that some characters, long since dead on tv, would be resurrected for the movie.

Via Mtv News 

“If we ended up doing [the movie] as a prequel and going back before the first season, obviously there’s a lot of things that could change. If we go for it much further down the line from where the show is, again, there’s a lot of room to change. It depends on the timing that they choose to set the film in.”

“[The timing issue] is something the writers are working on right now,” Sutherland added. “But the sky’s the limit at that point for them, because we would not be restricted by the time element.”

The possibility of a prequel will undoubtedly set the fingers of chat-room-savvy fans wiggling on their keyboards faster than Chloe data-mining a thumb drive. It could hearken back to a time when Jack was actually still collecting a paycheck from the Counter-Terrorism Unit and, as Sutherland happily acknowledged, when memorable characters such as President Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), Victor Drazen (Dennis Hopper) or Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) were still alive. It would also, most definitely, guarantee a return of Bauer’s ill-fated wife, Teri (Leslie Hope).

“That’s been the hardest part about the show,” admitted Sutherland, who recently signed a deal that will extend the Fox drama for three more years and elevate him to the position of executive producer. “Leslie Hope … became a great friend of mine. When you find an actor that you can work with like that, and have that kind of faith with, the idea of having to let them go is really painful.”

Another old friend Sutherland says he would love to work with again is Louis Lombardi, whose schlubby Edgar Stiles had evolved into a breakout character until a recent brush with nerve gas led to his shocking death. “That was hard,” Sutherland said of the decision to dispatch Stiles. “God, he played that scene well. I remember I was standing by the monitor and, obviously, I wasn’t in that sequence. I had just come in and I was getting ready to do something after that. I just caught the tail end of it. I watched him do that scene and my heart broke.

I think a 24 movie would actually work. I know that firefly was a flop, which was surprising to me, but I never watched the tv show and didn’t watch the movie. 24 is a show I watch every week and the only one that leaves me mad when it’s done for the week. Everyone who works in every position on that show does a great job and I am never left disappointed. Unless they pick people who are complete idiots, I can’t imagine the movie not doing well.