’24’ Jack Bauer Prequel series in works from original creators Joel Surnow and Bob Cochran

This is probably an unpopular opinion around here, but I wish they would just end the series once and for all. How many times can you try to revive a series that had a long run to begin with? I never even watched Legacy and still don’t plan to.

So, they can do a story with Jack Bauer, who for all intents and purposes, is considered the heart of the show, but don’t have to involve Kiefer.

Talk about having your cake and eating it, too :)

The idea is intriguing but I just cant see who they could cast that could really replace Keifer S., even in a younger role.

THAT’S the big idea they’ve been keeping under wraps for the last year… that??? A five-year-old could have come up with that idea during potty time!!!

What made jack Bauer who he was is what he experienced, suffered, and lost over the show’s 13-year run… not crammed into some forced and contrived prequel that nobody asked for, particularly wanted, and that the producers once said they would never do.

Haven’t you guys learned anything from the recent Han Solo movie flop?

I would have said at one time that I’ll keep an open mind and give this a chance… but I won’t even do that anymore; this is a shitty and creatively cheap idea that has no dramatic purpose other than to keep a lucrative franchise going.

So long 24… you were great once.

Seen that folks asked for Nightfall to be the prequel, but the thing is that took place only two years prior to Day 1. And we see pictures of it in Day 3, with Jack & Saunders, both played by Kiefer & Paul Blackthorne. Kind of hard to pull off that one with a new younger actor, I would assume, since it has been established that’s how Jack looked like back then.

Recall reading in the original pilot script (can’t find a link anywhere online for it now), that Jack was 35 years old when the series began. Kiefer was 34 when the pilot was shot (March 2001). Not sure how much younger can they go from here.

The tie-in stuff with regards to the character’s dossier, mentioned that he served in the military, the LAPD SWAT unit, & the CIA.

If it were to cover any of those tenures he had, they’d probably cover a specific military mission or a police operation over the course of 24 hours. Instead of terrorists, it would presumably be against organized crime, foreign military, or maybe even serial killers. I don’t think you need the real time conceit for that. Without that gimmick, it could or would play out just like a regular procedural, albeit one which gives insight into the character over the course of a season across a long period of time, while casting the clock aside (which I don’t know if they’d be willing to do).

Or hell, back in 2002, when FOX was still doubtful over whether to renew it for a second season, they had Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff write a sample script where each episode would encompass 24 hours, rather than one hour in real time, so that it can be more accessible to viewers. But, they chose to renew them with a format intact, and the rest is history. They could try revisiting that idea. Each episode covering 24 hours, but set across different periods of time in Jack Bauer’s life (where the time passing between each episode could be as little as week or as much as four months or two years), which really shaped him up to the man you first met on the day of the California Presidential Primary.

Top of that, it would presumably be set in the late 80s and across the 90s, right? That way, I think they could probably explore the world in a pre-9/11 setting. The horrible events of that day nearly 17 years ago, forced them to write the show differently. They just wanted it to be a straight-up thriller set in a fictional world, but this tragedy rooted them in a very real world & what you saw over the course of the original run was a reflection of that (Surnow even said so in a Paley Center event in 2003). They might see this as an opportunity to maybe tackle what they may originally have envisioned back in the day, but couldn’t do so due to being informed by this unfortunate development.

Just thinking out loud :)

Details from Fox on the 24 reboots:

http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/02/fox-24-spinoffs/

https://www.slashfilm.com/24-spin-off/

https://deadline.com/2018/08/kiefer-sutherland-returning-24-prequel-tca-1202438608/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/08/02/fox-franchise-24-eyeing-another-revival-possibly-legal-series/890930002/

https://tvline.com/2018/08/02/24-revival-legal-death-row-thriller-versus-young-jack-bauer/

Pretty sure when Teri is at home before Tony saves her life, we see photos of a young Kiefer-Jack Bauer, among the many pictures in the house. During her amnesia phase.

So this is their master plan? What a joke.

Yea, I’m sure people are dying to watch a totally different actor play a very young Jack Bauer. Do they seriously believe any of this will interest people? This will tank a lot harder than Legacy did.

This also isn’t a comic book. So what exactly do they mean by “origins” of how Jack Bauer became Jack Bauer? He’s just a man who has experienced a lot of tragedy and does what he thinks is right, which we saw starting from Season 1.

Either give us a fitting conclusion to this show (which means Kiefer/Jack returning and wrapping up the story for good) or just put this show out of its misery.

The justinnator ? harassment day stalkment day??come with me if you want jack to live. Anyhow I’ve Always liked the idea of seeing jack maybe being in survival mode in Moscow/ resourceful . Which is why I don’t mind them doing season 10 with kiefer. But there talking about doing things they said they’d never do with the franchise & that’s where the fan base will deplete rapidly they wanna treat this like the the next James Bond? But without jack? What? But replace him with new hero’s every few years? & this would be like that how? Someone please explain this.

Wow, I went two months without seeing this news.

FUCK THIS !!!! HORRIBLE IDEA!!!!!

This feels like a nightmare.