We all have a threshold for dumbness. I discovered that 24 blew right past my threshold at some point during the second season, and I’ve never bothered looking back. I understand that in the seven seasons since I bowed out Jack Bauer has continued making excellent time on freeways, never needed to evacuate his bladder and been faced with trite complication after trite complication.
But that could all be ending, with Fox looking like it won’t pick up the show for another season. And with that possibility looming production entity 20th Century Fox TV is taking serious moves into making a 24 movie. Serious and potentially good moves: they’ve hired Billy Ray, a guy who can be found doing less than great work (Flightplan, Suspect Zero) as well as doing great work (Shattered Glass, State of Play remake). Billy Ray is a writer who can go either way depending on the situation, and maybe he could be bringing his smart guy game to this potential film.
Billy Ray’s pitch has Jack Bauer heading to Europe; while the movie would be called 24 (obviously) it’s unclear whether the real time aspect would carry over. I mean, it’s unlikely that anyone outside of Warhol’s Factory would release a 24 hour long movie, and you can’t assume there will be 11 more sequels. Would the film condense 24 hours into two, or would it be real time for two hours? Bring in Matt Pinfield and call it 120 Minutes, maybe.
All of this remains up in the air. Should the Fox network cancel 24, 20th Century Fox TV might try shopping it around; producers have said they don’t think they could shoot a movie while the show was still in production. But whatever happens, this more or less guarantees that Day Nine won’t be Jack Bauer’s last timecard drawing overtime.
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Billy Ray also made the excellent BREACH. Good news indeed.
I having a feeling they'll drop the realtime aspect and just give Bauer 24 (non-realtime) hours to stop the terrorists.
Jack Bauer and the Attack of the Euro Trash.
the show has really turned to shit in the last few seasons. but the insanity in seasons 2 – 5 made for some pretty exciting (albeit pretty stupid) television. i cant say i want a 24 movie, but hopefully billy ray come up with something a little less asinine than what we've got with season 8.
Matt Pinfield is not missed.
You know, I've actually been digging 24 this season, mostly because of Annie Wershing's (sp?) surprising acting and the fact that they've stopped trying to out-disaster the previous season. I know that it's filled with preposterousness, but so are those slasher movies that Devin covets. We've all got our personal brand of dope that works for us.
I strongly expect: 1, it'll be 24 hours of non-real-time. 2, it'll be a personal story about Jack. 3, that probably means Kim will be kidnapped, which will also nicely (or retardedly, if you like) mirror season 1. 4, It won't be as good as Taken. 5, Taken sucks.
Save the 24 Adorable Kittens!! (Dammit!)
As long as they got Renee acting batshit crazy insane, killing everything that moves, I'm there.
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