Fox Entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly has just announced during his TCA talk that the new season of 24 will take place outside of the US. “This is gonna be set in an international setting. They’ve got a great idea,” said Reilly.
"It's still vibrant and alive," says Reilly of new #24, which will have a foreign-locale format for its 12-ep return. #tcas13
— TV Guide Magazine (@TVGuideMagazine) August 1, 2013
On #24 returning. Reilly just heard ideas that he says were vibrant for the 12-episodes. Int'l setting in the show, he says. #tcas13 #fox
— TV Fanatic (@TVFanatic) August 1, 2013
An international setting explains the news from earlier this week about CTU’s return being “unlikely” and reaffirms the writers claims of doing something fresh. Exciting news! We also learned during the TCA talk that 24: Live Another Day will premiere in May alongside new FOX drama Gang Related. Chloe O’Brian was confirmed as the second cast member earlier today.
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August 1, 2013 at 3:13 pmEven despite these tweets I have my doubts. Still not sure whether the writers will do the show internationally for the entire 12 episode.
But if they do, so much the better!
Jack
August 1, 2013 at 3:21 pmI bet it’ll be good but I hope it’s not in somewhere like Pakistan or a middle-Eastern country.
Predictor
August 1, 2013 at 3:55 pm24marathonman
August 1, 2013 at 4:04 pm24bauerfan
August 1, 2013 at 7:29 pmI’d be all for watching it with a crowd on my second time though.
Gerry Mander
August 1, 2013 at 8:13 pmI wouldn’t hazard a guess as to what the story will be in ‘Live Another Day’ but the international setting throughout it’s entire run certainly opens up any number of possible ways it could go… will Jack be on the run, will he uncover a threat and have to break cover to expose it, will he be drafted in to help on a new threat… the possibilities are endless, plus the likelihood of the story taking place in more than one foreign locale more than justifies the new forrmat of being able to jump whole hours! At this stage, I wouldn’t take the movie even if they offered it on a silver platter, this is so much better and much more exciting than a mere two-hour short story…
Oh, I just thought of something that might be relevant here; a few months ago someone here mentioned the unused movie outline written back in 2006 whereby the story would take place in Prague, London, and an unnamed Middle East country, and although the 24-hour day in that story wouldn’t play out in real time, the action in the three location settings would… that’s the first thing I thought of when I heard today’s news, I wonder if HoGo dusted off that basic idea (if not the actual plot) for ‘Live Another Day’…?
Joshua
August 1, 2013 at 8:28 pmGerry Mander
August 1, 2013 at 10:59 pmJoshua
August 1, 2013 at 11:56 pmX
August 2, 2013 at 9:20 amI hope it all ends with Jack having to nuke the U.S. to save the world as its become the bully and enemy of the world. That would be awesome for Jack to sacrifice “his country” to save the world.
X
August 2, 2013 at 9:23 amExpect Jack Bauer to be a parallel to Edward Snowden.
TJ
August 2, 2013 at 10:24 amIf one thinks of how the series ended, it’d be natural to assume with this news that the Russian angle will somehow play a part (maybe the Russians kidnap Chloe or Kim or someone else close to him) to lure Jack onto their turf?) but, personally, I’m hoping it puts Jack into the middle East, maybe with an angle that he learns of a threat being plotted from abroad against the US and goes to the source to stop it.
The international setting and country-hopping does back up the premise of a 24-hour day being captured in 13 hours.
Jack
August 2, 2013 at 11:38 amCatherine
August 2, 2013 at 4:17 pmJoshua
August 2, 2013 at 10:14 pmTJ
August 3, 2013 at 2:18 amThe fugitive angle – where Jack is chased by the US government – seems hard to grasp, if only because Taylor resigned at end of S8 and confessed to her role in the cover-up. So one has to think that the fallout of the Russians conspiring to supply nuclear rods to IRK rebels against the US, then murdering American agents along the way towards assassinating Hassan – and Taylor’s knowledge that President Suvarov was aware of it all would have led to some understanding of Jack’s actions against criminals in that plot.
Then again, maybe the storyline for the first comeback season is all about Jack clearing his record so by the follow-up season (assuming there is one), he’s a free citizen again.
TJ
August 3, 2013 at 2:20 amJoshua
August 3, 2013 at 2:34 amTJ
August 3, 2013 at 12:14 pmIf Gordon had said that the reboot was going to take place a short time after S8, then I could see the fugitive context being the only way to go – but I’m not expecting the writers will go that way.
If anything, to build a little off of the events of the first 8 seasons, maybe it will be more of a tangent where Jack has voluntarily retreated into isolation to forget his past and get a new start, which would then possibly explain the international locale being the starting point for where the new series finds him.
Anyway, hopefully we’ll get some teaser/trailers around the end of the year that will give more clues to what the writers are thinking of……..
Joshua
August 3, 2013 at 10:54 pmGerry Mander
August 3, 2013 at 11:57 pmJoshua
August 4, 2013 at 12:06 amCatherine
August 4, 2013 at 5:42 pm