TheWrap is reporting that there’s no chance of the 24 film being shot this year, and that the script will be reworked yet again.
Kiefer Sutherland has made peace with Twentieth Century Fox over his “24” movie, but the project has been pushed until next year, TheWrap has learned.
The movie production was set to start shooting next month after Sutherland wraps the season for his television series, “Touch,” but a dispute over budget and the star’s fees put the project off schedule and means it has to be pushed until next year.
“It didn’t work out right now. Everyone is trying to figure out how to do it next year,” an individual close to the project told TheWrap.
A Fox spokesman did not respond to several requests for comment.
The plan now is for a new writer to rework the script, which Billy Ray wrote.
4 Comments
Comments ClosedDon J
March 21, 2012 at 10:08 pm1st and foremost, I hope the studio “officially” greenlights it and then hires a director to start pre-production.
Gerry Mander
March 21, 2012 at 11:25 pmDon J, I agree with your concern about the studio bringing in a new writer to “rework” the script – I too smell studio meddling (probably with the intent to get the budget down) – if the current Billy Ray/Mark Bomback draft is so good (which the Kief’ seems to think it is), then why mess with it, just concentrate on getting a great director, working out the money disagreements (without which, we would have had a ’24’ movie THIS YEAR), and getting the movie fully prepped for production next spring as soon as the Kief’ becomes available… and if you absolutely, positively, simply have to “rework” the script, then I’ve got the perfect person(s) to do it; Joel Surnow and Robert Cochrane!
BMAN
March 22, 2012 at 5:59 amGerry Mander
March 23, 2012 at 12:04 am