24: Live Another Day to have smaller-scale, more personal threats?

Yeah, I share your concerns 24spoilers. I’m just hoping the whole seven months (or more) they have to right twelve scripts will keep them on the right track. They just have to control their natural impulses to write the words “explosion” and “blow up” on the script and we’ll probably be fine.

Kiefer said about the 24 movie that this time Jack have not to save America but to save himself, maybe they will use this idea for the mini series ?

Well David Fury has been one busy dude over the July 4th holiday, he answered like a dozen or so tweets from fans, haha… that’s dedication for you!

He pretty much came right out and said that the story for ‘Live Another Day’ will have “nothing absolutely to do with the movie”… consider that speculation settled then, and probably rightly so, they’re not going to take six months to crack and map out the story, and have around ten hours of eventual screen-time to tell it just for them to ‘borrow’ ideas wholesale from the unfilmed movie script!

It was already stated explicitly in the initial press reports back in May regarding the return of ’24’ as a limited series that this will be “a brand new story arc” and that’s as it should be. I have no doubt they’re aiming for the stars and swinging for the fences on this one, they have more time than they ever had on the series to work on the scripts in advance, let’s give ’em the breathing room to do it right instead of bombarding them with a million questions every time they log onto their Twitter accounts.

Whether Chloe will be in it, what time the new day begins, where will it take place, what will the threat be this time, will it be the last one or will more series’ potentially follow… these are all good questions, but I for one am more than prepared to wait in good time for them to be answered, the less I know when it finally airs next May the sweeter it’s gonna be!

May 2014 will come around before y’all know it, let’s have some patience, people…

I wouldn’t mind a context where Jack is hiding under another identity, similar to how he started off Season 5 (and its prequel), while evading the Russians – and there can be some tension/drama in watching a “Fugitive”-mode of him always looking over his shoulder and on the run. But that would get old over a 13-episode arc. Maybe the season’s brevity could allow for the first half to be him dodging his pursuers, then find him forced to confront them in order to rescue a loved one (Chloe? Kim? Tony? Audrey? Kate? A former colleague/agent he partnered with on some mission before CTU?) and confront his enemies in second half.

I’m not sure the ‘clean slate’ approach, where S1-8 are left in the rear view mirror with brief references, is the best way to go. It can still be a ‘reboot’ without cutting any ties to the 8 seasons IMO.

“Gerry: ” He pretty much came right out and said that the story for ‘Live Another Day’ will have “nothing absolutely to do with the movie”… consider that speculation settled then, and probably rightly so, they’re not going to take six months to crack and map out the story, and have around ten hours of eventual screen-time to tell it just for them to ‘borrow’ ideas wholesale from the unfilmed movie script!”

that sucks, i really liked that script, the idea of jack being on the run in europe with the U.S. and Russians and etc after him, it sounded so awesome and fresh and new

and it just makes me wonder, ok so jack going to be in the U.S and going after a terrorist threat?? but he cant work with ctu, with the way season 8 ended. it just makes me wonder

“Gerry: “Still a heckuva lot more ’24′ than we ever would have had with the planned-now-abandoned movie trilogy plan, I think you all will agree… and if there’s more limited series’ after this one, that’s EVEN MORE Jack Bauer Power Hours to look forward to and get positively giddy with excitement about!”

my dream would be that the ratings for “Live Another Day” would be so good that fox decides to greenlight the 24 movie and then after that’s done, they have 24 go back to tv and do sequels for the limited series every 12 or 18 months or whatever

im glad 24 is coming back on tv in a limited series because its longer and you can do more on tv but i would like to be able to go to the movie theater and see jack on the big screen at least once, the character deserves it

@Shady, you and I are on the same page regarding the non-event that was the proposed ’24’ feature film, I believed then and I still believe even now that it was the best possible and next logical step for the ongoing franchise, and yes, Jack Bauer did indeed deserve at least one big-screen outing!

I wish I could say the movie script was fantastic, I’ve never read it – although I live for the day it’s leaked online – but the whole premise of the film was a wholly new dynamic for ’24’ and certainly something we hadn’t seen before, that plus the fact it was a whole new medium they working in, gave the ’24’ movie a fresh new spin on what had went before. I also don’t agree with what Brian Grazer stated recently that the movie moved the character of Jack Bauer so far away from as he was originally conceived, it was putting Jack in a new situation with new stakes and new challenges to overcome in new surroundings, that’s called character development, Brian.

The ’24’ movie is officially DOA, @Shady, I wish it were not so, the studio could have very easily given them the $45m needed, hired a reliable director like Jon Cassar, and had the movie prepped and ready for shooting when Kiefer finished filming of ‘Touch’ back in January, with an early October release later this year, but I guess they thought another Adam Sandler or another Smurfs movie was a better investment, more fool them…

I totally get where Northern Star and Shsdy are coming from, when I first read about Live Another Day back in May the first thing I felt was surprise quickly followed by anger and disappointment that the 24 movie was’nt going to be made, I literally blew a gasket on ths site over it that day. But that was then and this is now, I’m over the 24 movie now and everything we have read about Live Another Day so far, the fact they have both Jon Cassar and Bob Cochran back in the fold, the fact they have SIX MONTHS to work out the story, and the fact that if it works and gets strong ratings and reviews we can look forward to at least a couple more limited series in the next few years, we have EVERYTHING to be happy about as 24 fans right now, next May literally can’t come soon enough, and when the new series airs, no-one and I mean NO-ONE will give the cancelled movie another thought because Live Another Day is going to “blow your socks off” as Kiefer so eloquently put it, ’nuff said!

No Chloe, no showy…

24fantothemax – fuck off! Let’s not go there again with all the provisional bases/presidential pardon shit.

I would have love to see Jack enjoy life a bit – like settling down wt Audrey, working closely wt white house/fighting terrorism 4rm white house as NSA boss, Defence Secretary, or Special aid 2 Mr/Madam Presedent on Terrorism, & guys like Chase coming back 2 d sceen……..