Things have been looking promising for the 24 movie lately, with a finished screenplay by Mark Bomback that Kiefer said he loved, and producer Brian Grazer stating they were casting the main villain.
But things appear to have hit a snag with Kiefer Sutherland revealing in an interview from yesterday that he’s frustrated with all the delays and less optimistic about being able to start filming soon.
We have a script that’s fantastic. The difficulty right now is that the schedule for Touch is really demanding. We will finish in the end of April, I think at one point it was supposed to be a little earlier than that. And then we would start up [on the movie] quite quickly. So it’s trying to find the time in the middle to make the film. I was probably more optimistic about starting in May a couple weeks ago than I am right now.
But it is definitely something I’ve been trying to do for five years. I’ve had such an amazing experience on 24. I loved the character, I love the genre – it’s really my favorite genre of film, which is that of the thriller. It’s something I deeply, deeply want to do. And it’s very frustrating to keep kind of running into these hurdles and blocks.
Kiefer had previously blamed Touch for “having to push the movie back about seven months” and now it looks to be responsible for yet another delay.
6 Comments
Comments ClosedGerry Mander
March 2, 2012 at 7:49 pmI fully understand and share Kiefer’s frustration, but I think this could be a good thing in the long-term; if they push it back to next year, they’ll have more time to get the movie ready for production, resulting in a better film overall than if they rushed it, plus if ‘Touch’ is not renewed for a third season, then Kiefer and co will have all the more time to shoot the ’24’ movie than they would have had if they had to sandwich it in between seasons of ‘Touch’… let’s keep the faith people, better a truly great ’24’ movie in 2013 or 2014 than a good rushed one in 2012!
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March 2, 2012 at 9:21 pmJomskylark
March 3, 2012 at 12:02 pmGerry Mander
March 8, 2012 at 11:48 pmKiefer didn’t say exactly how long they will have between seasons of ‘Touch’ to shoot the movie, as long as it’s at least 13 weeks (which will give them between 78 and 80-something days for filming), then they’ll do well, but I certainly wouldn’t want any less time than that… that is, if they want the ’24’ movie to BE a movie and not a theatrically-released feature-length episode (like the television movie ‘…Redemption’)!
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March 9, 2012 at 5:52 amGerry Mander
March 9, 2012 at 10:59 pm