Well this is a nice realtime punch to the gut. The anticipated Kiefer Sutherland project to bring badass ‘Jack Bauer’ to the silver screen this year seems to have hit a delay due to the dreaded ‘Scheduling conflicts’. As it stands the planned theatrical version of ’24’ won’t film later this month as originally planned and does not yet have a revised production schedule or release date.
Source: Filmonic
Sutherland has a brand new show on FOX called “Touch,” and was planning to shoot the 24 movie in the upcoming break between seasons. But Deadline says they would have had to rush the shoot, which was something Sutherland and mega-producer Brian Grazer didn’t want to do. So the movie hasn’t been killed completely, just indefinitely delayed.
I don’t like the phrase “indefinitely delayed”. It just pains me to see those words attached to any project I’m looking forward to and ’24’ just happens to be one that a lot of us were REALLY looking forward to. Maybe he can squeeze this one in between seasons?
DAMN IT!
24 was one of the most influential television shows I’ve ever seen, but I haven’t really been looking forward to the movie, and frankly am not surprised that the production has been stalled yet again. The first five seasons were classic television, but the quality of the show seemed to deteriorate in season six and never quite recovered. I wish the creators had done something similar to “Lost” and planned the series finale a few years in advance instead of trying to drag the concept out as long as possible. I think the problem was that the show started to get its highest ratings ever in season four, which is when I thought the show should’ve started winding down. As unsatisfying as the series finale was I can’t really see anywhere else for the Jack Bauer character to go unless they give him a powerful death, which was how I expected the series to end.
Gutted but I still think it’ll happen, the season ending was too open, needs a big budget movie ending