In 2014, the clock stopped ticking for Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer. 4 years after the stellar 24 got here to its official finish after eight seasons, 24: Reside One other Day picked again up with the character in London, and that miniseries is now generally known as 24 Season 9. However there have been makes an attempt to carry Jack again to the airwaves, and never solely has Sutherland learn a script for the 24 reboot, he defined why it’s taking so lengthy to turn into a actuality.
The actor from the short-lived Rabbit Gap opened up on the topic whereas showing on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand to faucet about his new line of Canadian whisky, Pink Financial institution Whisky. When Rand requested Sutherland about the place issues stand with 24 being revived, he answered:
Howard Gordon has give you an concept that I like. Earlier than, the fabric had not been written, so I must say, ‘I’m not the one which’s in the best way.’ [But] one thing has been written. I feel it’s actually good. I feel it’s actually robust.
Attempting to maneuver a venture ahead with none scripts having already been written isn’t all the time the perfect plan of action, so I’m not shocked that these earlier makes an attempt at reviving 24 didn’t bear any fruit. Nonetheless, now a script has been written, though it’s unclear if it’s for the primary episode of a brand new TV sequence or a one-off TV film. Both manner, Kiefer Sutherland is impressed with what he learn and seems like he’s nonetheless sport to reprise Jack Bauer on this model of the venture.
That being mentioned, the TV panorama is kind of completely different in comparison with when 24 was airing, and now the present is now owned by a distinct firm, which complicates bringing it again. As Sutherland defined:
24 was initially with Fox. Now it’s owned by Disney due to what Fox has offered off, and so it has to undergo completely different channels earlier than it’s both accepted or disapproved. Like everyone else, it’s one thing I would love to do. I want to shut that story. It was left sort of vast open. So, fingers crossed. There’s an opportunity. We’ve taken some appreciable steps ahead.
On the finish of 24: Reside One other Day, Jack Bauer was taken by Russian brokers to reply for killing the Russian overseas minister and his lead operative, in addition to his tried assassination of Russian President Yuri Suvarov. All this was carried out to precise revenge for Renee Walker being murdered, however when Chloe O’Brian was apprehended as Reside One other Day was winding down, he agreed to provide himself up in alternate for his freedom. The one-season spinoff 24: Legacy didn’t handle Jack in any respect, though his former ally Tony Almeida did seem within the latter half of that present.
So what occurred from there? Has Jack Bauer been languishing in a Russian jail this complete time? Or did unseen occasions end in him ending up some place else? These are a number of the questions that this 24 reboot can reply, and I hope that Disney is keen to provide this espionage franchise one other shot. And albeit, I’d relatively the brand new 24 turn into a Hulu unique as an alternative of returning to Fox, as that may permit for the present to go even tougher with its violence and grownup materials.