It’s been more than a year since Fox’s 24 ended its run, but buzz surrounding a big-screen feature picking up where the Kiefer Sutherland thriller left off still lives large.
Showrunner Howard Gordon, on hand Thursday at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour to promote Showtime’s Homeland, noted that conversations are “definitely happening” to take the franchise to the big screen.
“There’s an institutional desire to do it,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “I know Kiefer wants to do it, we all want to do it. It’s just about finding the right script and not just doing it to do it.”
Gordon, reflecting on the dramatic thriller’s conclusion, noted that completing the series was an uphill battle and, while proud of the work he’s done, is nervous about what a feature would entail.
“It’s something that I think if it doesn’t happen, I will not be heartbroken,” he said. “I’m very proud of that run and how it ended. It was very hard to get it to the finish line with some kind of grace in closure. Why mess it up? But if you find the right story …”
“I miss the character terribly and I know Kiefer does, too,” he said, adding that what’s currently in development takes place abroad and, unlike traditional episodes of the series, would likely expand to more than 24 hours.
9 Comments
Comments ClosedGerry Mander
August 4, 2011 at 8:48 pmThey should just take their time to get it right, and once the story is locked in place, with an excellent director like Tony Scott at the helm, everything else will fall into place naturally…
The ’24’ movie should probably have an international setting, take place over a 24-hour period (with the first 23 hours played out like a normal movie, and the final hour of both the day in the film and the film itself played out concurrently in real-time), and be about Jack trying to get his freedom back whilst dealing with some kind of terrorist plot…
Ozgur Ulker
August 4, 2011 at 9:17 pmSo basically, you took one of the very few developed female characters on the show and stuffed her into the fridge (after victimizing and marginalizing her all season long), then took a principled president and turned her into a wimpy moron for some 50 year old dude to go on a psychotic revenge spree in the end.
Be very proud Howard. Be very proud.
X
August 8, 2011 at 4:59 amA feature film will never be as great as a full 24 hour season.
And Ozgur Ulker is an idiot. They played those characters realistically and phenomenally. Day 8 was an absolute phenomenal bliss and a huge surprise as was every 24 season.
Chris Driedger
August 8, 2011 at 6:10 amRorshach Lives
August 10, 2011 at 1:16 amI concede ’24’ hit a popularity peak in 2006-07, but the idea of seeing Jack on the silver screen in a big-budget extravaganza would still hold a novelty value that would attract a large audience, and if done right, would also get in general audience members who didn’t necessarily watch the series. The fact is, it would be a lost opportunity- creatively and commercially- not to give an iconic character a proper and fitting send-off.
It should, however, be only one ’24’ movie produced, don’t try to make a franchise out of it, considering how challenging they’re finding it to craft a movie script that is both creatively fresh and not a re-tread of the series’ greatest hits. Better to concentrate on a single, great ’24’ movie, end the whole saga on a high note, and leave it for future generations to enjoy the way we did, without it being tarnished by apathy before the end, unlike a certain other Fox series that will remain nameless…
Kaga daniel
August 11, 2011 at 7:32 amDon J
August 14, 2011 at 11:43 pmPlus, I’m curious as to how they would schedule shooting in January since Kiefer is working on Touch. I highly doubt they will wrap shooting all 13 episodes before the new year.
Gerry Mander
August 15, 2011 at 1:05 amThis certainly would explain why Kiefer has been so determined to get the ’24’ movie into production by January or February next year, which, if it does, would give them a solid five or six months- or cram five months’ production into a four-month shoot by working six-day weeks if they want it released in 2012- to shoot the movie before Kiefer has to begin production on the second season of ‘Touch’, hope this clears it up somewhat…
Eisler
September 19, 2011 at 2:42 pm^This.
As a long time fan I felt betrayed by what went down in the end of s08e17. One might draw the conclusion that a show can be great because it shocks its audience, and features some guy “in revenge mode.”
That’s absolute bullshit and asinine. Stupid people may still enjoy a bloody version of peek-a-boo; I, for one, watched the show during the last seasons because I wanted Jack as a character to achieve some level of peace and contentment, because he has sacrificed so much for country and honor and deserves it.
“That’s not what happens on this show!” Is a ridiculous argument in light of its predecessor. If we 24 fans really worship at the altar of the unexpected, how can ANYTHING be something that isn’t allowed to happen?