Action-Adventure 24: The Movie

[Destructus86]

What the heck happened to Viggo?

 

[Raul1001]

I've always been a big fan of 24, so I'm looking forward to see where they're going with this movie. Even though I was getting tired of them using the same formula over and over again. The first season may not have been the most entertaining or thrilling season but definitely the best.

 

[Golgo-13]

 

[AnneFan]

Man, I'm stoked this is finally going ahead. 24, along with Lost and the Sopranos, is one of my favourite television shows of all time. Lots of fond memories sitting up at night and watching all the seasons. Bring on Bauer.

 

[DrCosmic]

Can someone explain how a 24 movie will be worth watching? Is there anywhere left to go here?

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I really would've liked to have seen a prequel about Operation Nightfall that took place before season 1.

 

[Sam Fisher]

I really would've liked to have seen a prequel about Operation Nightfall that took place before season 1.

Me too. Actually I wouldn't mind it if they did it as a game.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I wouldn't mind that either. Operation Nightfall really set up future seasons with Victor Drazen and Stephen Saunders. I think it could be something 24 fans would get interested in.

 

[kvz5]

Is there a director attached to this already?

 

[Sam Fisher]

Is there a director attached to this already?

I know Tony Scott was interested but I don't think he's on the project anymore.

 

[Shifty]

The film has been postponed! May have to wait until late 2013 or 2014 for the film now, if it ever gets going. Fox is penny pinching so if the film does happen it would look cheap and out of place against other action films.

UPDATE: Intrigue Behind Stopping The Ticking Clock On ’24′ Movie
By MIKE FLEMING | Wednesday March 14, 2012 @ 2:16pm

UPDATE, 11:16 PM: The 24 movie postponement broken by Deadline this morning is getting interesting. Word is racing around agency circles that Kiefer Sutherland was not only unhappy about the pic’s postponement, but also what I’d heard was a $1 million offer to play Jack Bauer in a deal that was heavily back-loaded to reward success. Insiders said that Sutherland would have gotten at least $2 million, though that was below his original $5 million and then $3 million ask. Fox wanted a budget around $30 million, while the filmmakers wanted $45 million to $60 million. Fox’s idea was always to make the film at a cost, and reward in the upside. The studio’s proposal, made a couple weeks ago, wasn’t addressed until this week, and when the crap hit the fan yesterday, the studio felt there wasn’t enough time to pull the picture off in seven weeks of prep. The studio was following its experience with X-Files, a TV property turned into a hit film, but made at a cautious budget. I’m told that Fuqua’s deal hadn’t been made yet. Sutherland, Imagine and Fuqua stood to reap up to about 25% of the proceeds after breakeven, to make up for the low upfront payments. I reached out for comment to Sutherland and Imagine this morning, but no one returned yet.

EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 7:40 AM: I’m hearing that fans of the Fox series 24 are going to have to continue waiting for the long-awaited 24 feature film. 20th Century Fox isn’t going forward with the film this year. It hadn’t been greenlit, but it was scheduled to get going in late March, with Kiefer Sutherland jumping into Jack Bauer mode when his new series Touch goes on hiatus in April. The studio was zeroing in on a director — Antoine Fuqua was the most recent conversation I’d heard of — when the decision was made this week to not go forward, at least this year.

There are rumors this came down to budget and that Sutherland is upset because he was sparked up to resume his role as the rough-and-tumble government operative, who over eight seasons prevented numerous apocalyptic terror attacks. Studio insiders tell me Fox wasn’t convinced it had enough time to complete the film before Sutherland has to go back to work on Touch‘s second season, and didn’t want to rush and neither did Sutherland. The picture is being produced by Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Sutherland and they have a script written by Billy Ray, and polished by Mark Bomback. It’s ready to go.

The big question is whether Fox will continue working on the film and readying it for Sutherland’s next hiatus. Having been a big fan of the series, I am disappointed. I’ve heard that Ray constructed the script to play out in a three-picture arc. Maybe it was the real-time format, or perhaps the writing and endless cliffhangers, but the twists and turns and intensity created a blood pressure-spiking viewer experience that was unmatched — at least until AMC unveiled The Walking Dead. It seems a natural transition to features, with the potential to turn into a Die Hard-type action franchise.

Giving the picture some hope is Grazer’s inability to take no for an answer. American Gangster was scrapped and then came back together and turned into a memorable crime drama. And Grazer, Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Stephen King are now firming up a deal for The Dark Tower at Warner Bros, which will put the picture on course to begin production in the first quarter of 2013 after Universal last year rejected the ambitious plan to make three movies and two limited-run TV series that could land at HBO.

 

[kvz5]

$1M seems pretty low for someone like Kiefer so I see where he's coming from.

 

[antsman41]

24 Movie postponed? Fox always knows how to out-fail themselves...

 

[Bim]

"DAMN IT!"

This sucks

 

[kvz5]

Can Kiefer just go Jack Bauer on them? I need this movie to happen.

 

[Kal-El.9859]

this kinda pisses me off...I hope they don't drop the film altogether

 

[TheVileOne]

Didn't it already get dropped once before?

Honestly I can take it or leave it. The final seasons of the show were awful.

But honestly, I say why not try to do it on a scale budget? I think movies have in some ways become too expensive and I want to see more quality middle of the road films that don't cost over $100 million.

 

[JackMercy]

But honestly, I say why not try to do it on a scale budget? I think movies have in some ways become too expensive and I want to see more quality middle of the road films that don't cost over $100 million.

Uh...they are. The filmmakers want a budget of $50 mil. -- Fox wants approx. $30. That's nowhere near 'blockbuster' budgeting these days...but Fox is still being a bit cheap, asking Kiefer to do it for $1 mil plus backend...

Guess they're still burned from X-Files: I Want to Believe...

 

[AnneFan]

Ugh. Really, I'm not surprised at this news. The years just keep going by since the last TV episode and the chances of making the film just get smaller. I hope they get it together.

 

[kvz5]

Is there any shot at all of this going to another studio?

 

[TheVileOne]

No. Fox owns 24 and they would never let it go elsewhere.

 

[kvz5]

No. Fox owns 24 and they would never let it go elsewhere.

Just like I thought. Oh well.

 

[ZombieBatman]

 

[Donut]

What if they canceled Touch for a trilogy of movies ? I would rather get Touch canceled. Then not have a 24 movie

 

[Shifty]

Update on the film...

Kiefer Sutherland Says the '24' Movie Will Shoot Next Summer

Sutherland says the script is ready to go right after the second season of 'Touch.'
By Fred Topel July 24, 2012 Crave Online


Last time we spoke to Kiefer Sutherland he thought he’d be shooting the 24 movie by now. When “Touch” premiered in January, he believed the script was ready to shoot in the summer. Then it got delayed for the second time. At the Fox party for the Television Critics Association this summer, Sutherland explained why they didn’t make it into production, but there’s no need to worry.

“Timing,” Sutherland said. “We didn’t have a script ready for that until very close to the end of ‘Touch.’ We knew we were coming back so there was a very finite window for me to make the film, to try to prep it, cast it and all of those other things. It was just unrealistic for Fox to try and make it, so they pushed it for next break.”

So to confirm, that means the script is now ready to shoot next time he’s available when “Touch” wraps its second season, right? “I believe so, yeah.”

The series finale of “24” left Jack Bauer fleeing the U.S. for his violent actions in the name of preventing terrorism. That was May 2010. If they shoot the movie in 2013 and it’s out in 2014, that’s four years since we last saw Jack. Sutherland is not worried about waiting too long.

“No, because I think we can make a great film. I mean, I don’t want to do it with a cane, but we’ll see. We’ll see what happens.”

Fox has Planet of the Apes and X-Men for summer 2014, an August 2014 release could happen.