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Kiefer Sutherland talks more about ’24′ movie

January 8, 2012 · 8 comments

During todays Television Critics Association winter tour presentation panel for Touch, Kiefer Sutherland reiterated the current plans for 24‘s feature film. “We will be shooting end of April or beginning of May,” the actor said.

Kiefer also confirmed that just like the television series, the movie would take place over the course of a single day, though obviously not in real-time. As for where the movie will fit in the timeline of the series? Kiefer says it’s “relatively a direct continuation [from the series finale]. We’re talking maybe six months from the end of that episode.”

Although Kiefer Sutherland is tight-lipped when it comes to revealing the cast, Howard Gordon confirmed yesterday that fan favorite Chloe O’Brian would appear in the film along with new characters. The movie is being written by Mark Bomback and currently has no director attached.

Sources: TV Guide Magazine, TVLine

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Howard Gordon says Chloe O’Brian is in 24 movie

January 6, 2012 · 8 comments

At todays TCA panel for Awake, executive producer Howard Gordon has confirmed to TV Guide’s William Keck that fan favorite Chloe O’Brian will take part in the upcoming 24 movie. He also mentions a summer shoot date.

#24 producer Howard Gordon tells me he’s hoping to shoot film with #kiefersutherland this summer – and Chloe would figure in with new cast

— William Keck (@KecksExclusives) January 7, 2012

Chloe was last seen being taken into custody by two FBI Agents for her part in helping Jack escape the country (watch the full Chloe’s Arrest epilogue here).

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24 Movie Update – Mark Bomback writing, Tony Scott out

December 5, 2011 · 9 comments

Deadline gives us an update on the 24 movie which is beginning to sound a lot more concrete.

Jack Bauer

The clock has started on 24, the feature version of the Imagine Entertainment/Fox series. The project, which brings back Kiefer Sutherland’s tireless government operative Jack Bauer. Mark Bomback–a favorite writer at 20th Century Fox writing The Wolverine and Shadow Divers–will turn in the latest script draft by year’s end. Imagine and the studio have about five directors in mind–no, Tony Scott is not attached anymore–and it will all begin happening very quickly in the early part of next year. The goal is to get the film into production to match Sutherland’s availability, which begins in April. That should give producer Brian Grazer something to do after he completes producing the Academy Awards and it is certainly good news for fans of the show who were beginning to fear the project wouldn’t happen.

Source: Deadline

UPDATE: If you needed any more confirmation, the official 24 Facebook page and former 24 showrunner Howard Gordon (via Twitter) have both acknowledged this report. Screenwriter Mark Bomback had actually worked with Howard Gordon before on the pilot for NBC’s “Legends”.

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Casting process underway on 24 movie

November 18, 2011 · 9 comments

Brian Grazer, Producer on 24 movie

While at a press conference for Clint Eastwood’s new biopic J Edgar, journalist Ed Symkus bumped into Brian Grazer (who produced that movie and is producing the 24 movie) on an elevator and asked him a bit about the status of the 24 movie.

“We’re working on it,” he said. “We’re making the movie. We have a script, and the casting is going along great. We’re about to start casting the main antagonist, the person who plays against Jack Bauer. We have a really great role to play against Kiefer.”

I asked him when he thinks we’re going to see the film.

“I hope to have it out in the first quarter of 2012,” he said.

Source: WestRoxbury Patch (Thanks Rob)

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Fake 24 Movie Spoilers with Mary Lynn Rajskub

November 9, 2011 · 2 comments

Here are some fake 24 movie spoilers from Mary Lynn Rajskub (24′s Chloe O’Brian).

via fueltv

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Kiefer Sutherland gives update on 24 movie, is “very excited”

October 22, 2011 · 5 comments

Here’s a radio interview in which Kiefer Sutherland talks about the 24 movie. Both he and former 24 showrunner Howard Gordon have been “very involved” in shepherding the project, which was written by Billy Ray.

“We’re gonna hopefully start production in April on the film, and that’ll be out later on in the year. We’re still a few months away, but we’ve got a script that we’re very excited about and we’re moving forward.”

When the interviewer asks Kiefer why the delay, Kiefer blamed his upcoming Fox television series Touch. “It’s something that kind of took up a lot of space for us to do, and that is as responsible as anything for us having to push the movie back about seven months,” said Kiefer.

(Thanks Rob for sending this in!)

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Will Chloe O’Brian be in the 24 movie? Mary Lynn Rajskub Doesn’t Know

October 14, 2011 · 0 comments

Mary Lynn Rajskub has done an interview with TheInsider.com about her new show webseries Dicki, and of course is asked about the 24 movie as well. Despite Kiefer Sutherland claiming the screenplay was finished ten days ago (meaning characters would be locked down), Mary Lynn has yet to be contacted.

Mary Lynn might be pulling double duty soon since Kiefer Sutherland recently said that a 24 movie script was just about done — which came as news to his former co-star. “There have been no phone calls, no conversations, but I would love to read the script and take it from there. That show changed my life, there’s no reason I wouldn’t go back.”

But Mary Lynn did have one character caveat for returning: “They have to promise to make Chloe a weird stripper. I want to be mostly nude, because that’s where I am in my career right now.”

Source: TheInsider.com

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Kiefer Sutherland: 24 movie screenplay “finished”, to start production in April

October 4, 2011 · 15 comments

Kiefer Sutherland has some great news for 24 fans – the screenplay for the movie has been finished and production is scheduled to start near the end of April.

“We’re very close (to a movie). We’ve worked very long and hard the last two years on a screenplay. It was actually much more difficult to take this idea that was in 24, which had 24 hours and 24 episodes to tell a story, and condense that into two hours. We thought it would be easier but it was much more difficult.

“Now a wonderful writer named Billy Ray has finished the screenplay. Hopefully we’re looking at the end of April to start production, and we’ll see.” [click to continue…]

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Billy Ray still writing the 24 movie?

October 3, 2011 · 0 comments

Billy Ray

Deadline reports that screenwriter Billy Ray is still penning the script to the 24 movie. Last we heard roughly ten months ago, his initial script was turned down by the studio.

Ray is scripting the revisionist Peter Pan pic Pan for Channing Tatum and Joe Roth, adapted A Captain’s Duty with Paul Greengrass directing Tom Hanks, and he continues to write the screen adaptation of the series 24 at Fox. He also scripted a remake of The Secret In Their Eyes, which Ray will direct. He’s repped by CAA and Management 360.

Source: Deadline

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Howard Gordon gives update on 24 movie

October 2, 2011 · 4 comments

Just days ago Kiefer Sutherland revealed they are very close to having a finished script, and now Howard Gordon has backed that up by saying “there is a script” and things are “definitely moving forward”. It also looks like he will be involved in some fashion.

Do you think a 24 movie will ever actually happen?
If the movie happens, I’ll certainly be a part of it. Kiefer [Sutherland] also has his own show now (Touch on FOX) and there are a lot of things that would have to fall into place. But, those things are definitely moving forward. Imagine and FOX are talking, and there is a script that we’re re-approaching right now.

Source: Collider

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Kiefer Sutherland: very close to having a “finished script” for 24 movie

September 25, 2011 · 7 comments

Good news 24 fans – Kiefer Sutherland has revealed the 24 movie script is “very close” to completion.

When will we see the much talked about and anticipated big screen version of 24?
We are coming very close to having a finished script. That’s been the most difficult thing. You have to remember that we have 24 hours to explain the stories in 24 and so trying to condense that into a two-hour film version has been a real shift in gear for us.

We were originally trying to make it too big and put too much into it – but once we relaxed, we found out how to tell that story. So yes we definitely do plan on making the film.

Did you have any idea, at the start of 24, how it was going to captivate audiences worldwide?
It is seen all over the globe and to be able to be a part of a project that transcended languages and cultures over a long sustained period of time has been great. It was the largest audience I have ever had and it was an absolute thrill to work on that show.

But it also changed things for me. It did so much for my confidence. For those reasons alone I will be forever in debt to the experience I’ve had with 24.

Are you still enjoying working in television as well as film?
I like doing television – some of the best work I am seeing right now is on television. TV is where it’s going. As long as the scripts are interesting I don’t care where they are shown.

Source: The Telegraph

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Kiefer Sutherland hopes to start filming 24 movie next March

September 11, 2011 · 6 comments

While doing press for his upcoming film Melancholia, Kiefer Sutherland told Entertainment Tonight’s Matte Babel that he hopes to start filming the 24 movie in March 2012.

24 Fans @realkiefer tells @thisisbabel they hope to start shooting the movie next spring - http://t.co/LL4lRnR

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Kiefer had previously said “there’s a real strong push to start in January” and to get the film released in theaters by Summer 2012, which FOX called “overly optimistic“. Let’s see if this new date pans out (I wouldn’t hold my breath, personally).

Source: ET Canada (tweet)

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Jon Cassar says movies have “caught up to 24″

September 2, 2011 · 4 comments

Former 24 director and executive producer Jon Cassar was interviewed by CraveOnline about working on 24, his interesting thoughts on the 24 movie (which he is not involved in), and his new upcoming series Terra Nova. Here’s the 24 stuff:

CraveOnline: After eight years of 24, were you just like, “You know, I need a challenge?”
Jon Cassar: Yeah, so I went and did The Kennedys. Then after The Kennedys I said I needed a challenge and I went and did Terra Nova. Look, it’s fun as a director to do all sorts of things. This was going to be a challenge and I knew that, and look, my wife keeps telling, “Can’t you just take something easy for a change? Can’t you just take a nice little family drama that takes place in the living room?” and I just keep somehow saying no to those. So, yes, I did pick it as a challenge.

CraveOnline: I really thought that Jack was going to go home to his family in hour three of that last year.
Jon Cassar: Just didn’t happen.

CraveOnline: Was it a big shock when the Billy Ray script didn’t move forward for the 24 movie?
Jon Cassar: Not completely for me just because, remember, we did eight years of 24 and twenty four episodes a year. We mined a lot of story, and the other thing is, quite honestly, I think it’s difficult. The reality is that it’s difficult to do that story because everyone is caught up to 24. I mean, 24 was an influence as far as I think on movies. I think it influenced stuff like The Bourne Identity. It influenced a movie like Salt. You could’ve gone to any of those movies and made that character Jack Bauer and you had your 24 movie. So, I think we sort of fell behind a little, I guess, if you want to think about it that way because all those stories were done. I think that’s part of it, to try to find something new that isn’t going to be a Bourne Identity, isn’t going to be a Salt, not going to be one of those other movies. It’s tough. Even Taken was very much like 24. He was chasing his daughter. So, we mined all that material all ready. So, find a new thing. Not easy.

CraveOnline: It does seem like 24 invented daughters getting kidnapped.
Jon Cassar: That’s very true, actually. We were very good at it.

CraveOnline: Three times in season one I think.
Jon Cassar: Well, yeah. She was kidnapped for one very long time in season one and then it happened in two, I think, and then in three, maybe, too. I don’t remember. But yeah, you want your hero personally involved. That was always based on that.

CraveOnline: That was part of the fun, too, her getting saved midseason and then wondering what would happen next, right?
Jon Cassar: Yeah, but I think it was brilliant on the writer’s part in that first year. I remember watching that show, and look, everyone was doing special agencies and I did La Femme Nikita with Joel Surnow. We did it years ago, and so everyone was always doing that, but the twist that they put in it was the fact that his daughter was stuck in L.A., downtown at night. That changed everything because I can’t identify with Jack Bauer running around getting terrorists, but I can identify with my son or daughter being lost in downtown L.A. So, that made it all different, and I think that they knew that right away which is why they did it as much as they did. That’s why movies do it, too. You want that personal connection.

Source: Crave Online

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Howard Gordon “will not be heartbroken” if 24 movie doesn’t happen

August 4, 2011 · 9 comments

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. [click to continue…]

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Mary Lynn Rajskub hasn’t seen or heard anything on 24 movie

August 3, 2011 · 3 comments

Another (non)-update on the 24 movie – Mary Lynn Rajskub (24‘s Chloe O’Brian) hasn’t seen or heard anything about the project.

I think we can safely assume Chloe would be on the short list of potential character returns, so the fact that she hasn’t been contacted yet probably says a lot about the current state of the project.

Reporters had plenty of questions for Mary Lynn Rajskub about a possible 24 movie. Unfortunately, the woman who played computer whiz Chloe O’Brian for nine seasons on Fox’s spy drama had few answers. “I’ve heard nothing. I’ve seen nothing,” Rajskub told reporters at CBS’ fall TV previews Wednesday about the long-rumored project.

Shortly after Fox announced that 24‘s eighth season would be its last, reports surfaced that Jack Bauer would make the leap to the big screen in a European-set adventure. However, the film has hit many speed bumps: thanks to screenplay problems and star Kiefer Sutherland’s new midseason TV project at Fox, Touch. “I’m rewriting the script myself,” she joked.

When asked if she knew whether Chloe would be in the movie, Rajskub again had few answers. “I’d like to think she is. I hope so,” she said. “It’s either going to be me or Rachel Weisz playing Chloe.”

Fortunately, Rajskub has a new day job to fall back on until Kiefer & Co. come calling. On the new CBS sitcom How to Be a Gentleman, she plays the sister of David Hornsby’s character, a manners-obsessed columnist who (slowly) starts to embrace his macho side. Rajskub said she felt it was the right time to transition to comedy after years of helping Jack Bauer save the day. “I love Chloe and 24 and it was an amazing part of my life, but I was ready to lighten it up and do a little comedy,” she said. “People have said that I was a little bit funny on 24, so with people laughing at me in a drama, why not be in a comedy and have people laughing on purpose?”

Despite the mounting evidence that a 24 movie won’t be hitting multiplexes anytime soon, she’s staying optimistic. “I hope I can have a couple days off from How to Be a Gentleman to be Chloe,” Rajskub said.

How to Be a Gentleman premieres on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 8:30/7:30c on CBS.