Kiefer Sutherland offered starring role in NBC pilot ‘The Black List’

Oh bloody hell! Just as one potential roadblock to the ’24’ movie getting made seems to be removed, another one is looming… is this film cursed or what?

I for one still do very much care about the ’24’ movie, and if Kiefer does too, I would presume and/or hope that he’ll want to take advantage of his open schedule later this year and finally, FINALLY get the bloody thing shot… and then he can worry about taking on a new series…

It’s hard to care about the 24 movie because all the news lately is more potential roadblocks instead of any progress being made. I hate to be a debbie downer but I really think that the movie will never be made but I would love to be proven wrong in this case.

I found an spanish article where Kiefer speaks about the movie:

“I did my best for the film to see the light, but it is currently out of my hands.”

http://www.eltiempo.com/entretenimiento/tv/entrevista-a-kiefer-sutherland_12615029-4

Whoa there, Guest dude, the ’24’ team “didn’t do enough”…? They were working flat out during 2011 and early 2012 to both get the script for the movie ready and for production to commence in May 2012 once Kiefer wrapped on ‘Touch’… it was FOX who were dragging their feet in greenlighting the movie, and when they did make a budget offer to Imagine Entertainment at the eleventh hour, it was both completely insufficient to what they needed and genuinely insulting… you wanna blame someone, blame FOX, the fault lies at their doorstep and NO-ONE else.

I believe you’re referring to the story outline hatched back in 2006, Guest, I don’t know how detailed it was, if it was a fully-fledged treatment or just a rough outline, there were tentative plans to shoot it in Prague, London, and Morocco over the summer of 2007 (between Seasons 6 and 7) for a summer 2008 release, but soon discovered they simply couldn’t make the series and prep the movie simultaneously so postponed the movie indefinitely in the spring of 2007 until the series was finished.

According to Joel Surnow back in March 2006, they had a plot in mind even at that early stage, and the plan was to have the movie take place over a 24-hour day, with the action in the three main location settings playing out in real-time segments of around 40+ minutes each. In an interview that Kiefer did in 2006 or 2007, he stated the movie would be self-contained and outside of the series’ chronological timeline, not a direct continuation of the preceding season’s events in other words.

This is the likeliest reason that outline was never used, although I’m sure with a bit of rewriting, it could easily have been fitted to align with the events of Season 8, so why they hired Billy Ray to write a whole new story from scratch in February 2010 when Ray could just as easily have penned a first draft screenplay of the already-written outline is anyone’s guess, it would surely have saved a lot of time, and very possibly could have resulted in the film being made before now, guess we’ll never know for sure though…

In the mean time if Kiefer doesn’t take the NBC offer he should have a clear opening for 24. Should they move forward now that there’s a script.

That’s why they made 24 the game for the PS2 to fill in that gap.

Actually I would love to see both ha. 24 would be killer on the PS3 system if done by the right game company studio. I still hope for the 24 movie tho. There is no way 24 will come to console systems again. unfortunately.

24 should definitely be made into another video game. For PS4 this time. The old one is still great. 24 is always great.

To me it’s obvious: they dont wanna make that movie..maybe Kiefer is tired of Jack’s role…I just hoe I’m wrong!