Continuing to be the Arrested Development of humorless Kiefer Sutherland real-time thrillers, 24 is reportedly putting aside long-held movie plans to instead return as a limited series. Titled 24: Live Another Day, the series will reportedly still cover a full day, but will now condense the time to span only 12 hour-long episodes. As Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly explained yesterday, this means the show now "will skip hours [to] be dictated by the plot"--cleverly mimicking the tight, fat-trimming editing style of everything that is not 24. The show is scheduled to air next May with an all-new story arc for Kiefer Sutherland to shoot and bark his way through. Other main cast isn't yet confirmed, as that hard-bargaining clock really thinks it's someone.
The 24 movie is becoming the Arrested Development movie of humorless Kiefer Sutherland real-time thrillers.
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- Ut oh, James Cameron: James Nguyen, director of the laughable cult hit Birdemic: Shock and Terror (evidence of what a "birdemic" looks like above), said in an interview he has "completely mastered the art of 3-D cinematography," which should make his planned 3-D sequel to Birdemic (yup) quite a treat. He also referenced Hitchcock 20 to 30 times.
- Precious director Lee Daniels is setting aside his plans to remake Nights of Cabiria to instead adapt Pete Dexter's 1995 novel The Paperboy with Bradley Cooper and Sofia Vergara. That should hold us off until someone gets to Atari's Paperboy.
- Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes will be co-producing an adaptation of the IDW comic Zombies Vs. Robots. Because we already have Cowboys & Aliens coming out, and Hollywood is apparently going to make us wait for some dumb shit with pirates and ninjas.
- Kiefer news: Kiefer Sutherland will be starring in a Fox drama called Touch, from the creator of Heroes. He also again insisted, "Yes, there will be a 24 movie." End Kiefer news.
- Steve Carell is attached to star in an adaptation of Carolyn Parkhurst's Dogs of Babel, playing a man trying to teach his dog to speak in the hopes it will divulge the secret of his wife's strange, untimely death. Amazon's review of the novel says Carell's character's "heartbreak is often quite palpable," so those of us looking for a talking dog movie to make us laugh till our mouths hurt will probably have to wait for Marmaduke 2.
Time to find out how heroic Jack Bauer can be given 22 hours less time! Variety is reporting that 24 is in the early stages of development for a feature film adaptation that would give Kiefer Sutherland barely enough time to meet the President, save a kidnapped scientist/relative, and have a stand-off with a terrorist:
Twentieth Century Fox's film and TV studios are conspiring to finally bring hit television series "24" to the bigscreen.
The film side has hired scribe Billy Ray ("State of Play," "Flightplan") to pen the script for the feature version.
Ray's pitch, which takes Jack Bauer to Europe, was a hit with Fox execs and producers of the high-concept television series.
Insiders cautioned that a "24" feature is still very much in the preliminary stages. There are a number of factors influencing how quickly it moves ahead, including the fate of the TV show.
This seems like it's starting to become a real trend lately. How many more television shows will I find out are still on the air when I hear someone's making a movie?
Are you one of the many who watched a season or two of 24 before deciding there were better ways to spend a day of your time? Fox wants you back, and they've put together this dazzling trailer for their seventh season, which promises tons of new surprises they'll reveal before the first episode even airs. Surprises such as...
- Keifer Sutherland desperately pleading for your viewership.
- J.A.G.-style courtroom drama--WITH NO REGRET! (And, That '70s Show dad!)
- The guy whose name I can't remember, the one with the annoying little soul patch, is now a terrorist. Because that's the definition of shocking.
- Shaky camera and zooms.
- Crazy shit happening, and there's "nothing [Jack Bauer] or the FBI can do about it!"
- The shock that, like Die Hard, so much terrorism can face a single one-man army.
See the trailer to the final day of 24's full week under the cut.
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