Kiefer Sutherland: 24 movie “currently out of my hands”

That’s a good point.

It sure sounds more than a little ominous for the ’24’ movie at this point… can’t believe it’s actually come to this! You have to wonder at the rationale – if any – behind FOX’s attitude to this movie and to ’24’ in general; nine years and literally hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue of loyal service yet the corporate bow-wows at FOX won’t pony up more than a miserly $30m to make a film with a massive in-built worldwide audience and which would be a profitable little earner both in theatrical and ancillary sales.

Meanwhile, the studio are making not one but TWO new ‘X-Men’ movies at the cost of at least $150m EACH… films of which have had diminishing returns at the box-office since 2006…

I feel bad for Kiefer, here’s hoping he or someone close to the movie spills the beans on what really happened someday, because it’s an utter disgrace how both the ’24’ movie team and the fans have been treated by a studio who clearly couldn’t give a monkey’s toss about either loyalty or just plain good business sense.

Rant over, cheers everyone, it’s been fun, I’m outta here…

God bless ye Justin, the world needs optimists like you, and I mean that sincerely, let’s hope your right that Kiefer is just being bluntly honest about the 24 movie and that once Touch is given the inevitable axe, then Fox will move on bringing Jack Bauer to the big screen, there really is no need either commercial or creative not to.

And another possibility is that Kiefer may have some sort of contract with the studio where he can’t say anything until the studio releases news on it.

As far as the NBC pilot that should not affect anything related to the 24 movie. Everyone involved with the project knows that fans want the movie, so lets be patient a little longer

It’s a win-win situation.

If it doesn’t happen: Good. It will never live up to the phenomenal series. It’s going from a superb long-form storytelling epic to a (probably dumbed down) short form mainstream bit. The real-time aspect would be gone (at least for the most part).

I’ll admit, I’m looking forward to it though. If it doesn’t dumb itself down and if it continues directly from the series, as an extension, without catering to the masses of retards, then I’ll be over the moon.

I do think it will be made. Especially if there’s already a script to go and a willing Jack Bauer. Come on, guys. You know its gonna happen.

Sorry, but I hardly doubt this is true. Kiefer has said that once Series 2 of Touch is out the way he will start shooting 24. If he really DID say this, then I’m pretty sure it would be mentioned on more than just this one site (and even on his Twitter page)

Yeah, as I said these articles still seem to suggest when will Kiefer be available.