With the exception of hilarious 1968 ITV classroom sitcom Please, Sir!, movie spin-offs of TV shows are usually not so great. Especially when the point of the TV show is to portray an entire day in real time, like 24.
But the 24 movie rumours keep persisting, with Kiefer Sutherland reportedly very excited about letting audiences see Jack Bauer's massive grumpy face on a giant screen and hear Jack Bauer's every slightly put-out grumping in ear-splitting THX surround sound. And now a 24 movie deal has been properly signed and everything.
Of all the TV shows around, one of the most unlikely candidates for the big-screen movie treatment is 24. Surely the point of 24 is that it's sort of supposed to be in real-time, so a 24 movie would either have to be 24 hours long, or centre around a much smaller story for Jack Bauer to charge about in and be renamed One And A Bit. We've given this some thought, can you tell?
A few months, the idea of a 24 movie was mooted by Kiefer Sutherland himself. Now, TV actors are always angling to get their show made into a movie, if only because it gives them the opportunity to respond to the usual "Hey, you're him off the telly" greeting with a stern "No! I am him off that ropey movie remake of the show on the telly!" but things are different when Kiefer Sutherland talks about a 24 movie. For one, Kiefer Sutherland is a movie star – who could forget his turns as That Bloke In Flatliners and One Of The Young Guns – and also, Kiefer Sutherland is 24.
Kiefer's got enough clout to be the best-paid actor in drama series, plus he's now the executive producer of 24, plus he's recently signed up for another three years of 24, so when Kiefer Sutherland says he wants to make a 24 movie, a 24 movie gets made.
A deal has been made between 20th Century Fox and the show's producers to make a 24 movie. Daily Variety reports that 24 series creators Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow will write the script for the 24 movie, with executive producer Howard Gordon helping out on the story. Word is that the 24 movie will shoot in the spring and summer of 2007, in between shooting the sixth and seventh season of the TV show.
We're not too sure where in all of this Kiefer Sutherland will get his wish and see Jack Bauer die. Perhaps, if we're really lucky, the movie will be titled 24: Jack The Spooky Ghost Detective. We'd certainly pay to see that.
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Hit show 24 coming to big screen – Reuters
[story by Stuart Heritage]
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