Kiefer fantasizes about a 24 movie
Filed under: Action, Drama, RumorMonger, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels
In a move that probably not-so-coincidentally comes just before the next day in
Jack Bauer's unbelievably stressful life hits TV, 24
star Kiefer Sutherland spent some time recently thinking out loud
about the possibility of a movie based on the series. Though he offers neither details nor evidence that anyone else is
thinking about the transition, Sutherland is nevertheless pretty enamored of the idea - and he wants more than one
movie, dammit! "It can be an amazing series of movie...[compress] all the energy we spread over 24 hours of
programming and put that into 2, I think we'd knock your socks off." So, millions of sockless 24 fans around the world are currently having fanboy orgasms - but what about the whole one-hour-per-episode gimmick of the show? Wouldn't some of the magic and drama be lost if they were forced to take a conventional approach to the characters and events?
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1-09-2006 @ 5:25PM
patrick said...
Wouldn't a season with one-two-hour-movie-every-two-weeks be an ideal testing ground for the simultaneous release in theatres, on dvd and on pay-per-view thingy?
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1-09-2006 @ 5:34PM
JT said...
This is clearly a prestige thing, you know, the premiere, red carpet, the paycheck...
Because the wholep urpose of the show is real time. And 90 Minutes to save the world ain't enough, even for Jack Bauer.
Besides, TV fiction has gone much further than movies in story and character developments over the last 10 years, that it would be dumb to limit oneself to the feature film format.
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1-09-2006 @ 5:46PM
Porchland said...
I just don't think I could sit through a 24-hour movie. ;-)
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1-09-2006 @ 6:09PM
Lose the 24 said...
I'd love it if they lost the gimmick of the 24 hour day altogether. You could still do "real-time" but it doesn't always have to be exactly 24 hours. It's already a little ridiculous.
I think the style of the show and the quality of writing would work regardless of the timeframe. And a 24 hour would bring me out of my current box-office desertion.
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1-09-2006 @ 7:32PM
Jennifer said...
Isn't the one thing that makes 24 stand out from any old 2-hour action flick is it's 24-hour-real-time schtick? A 24 movie would be like any other movie out there right now. Big whooping deal.
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1-10-2006 @ 11:46AM
Robert said...
I'd be interested to see a 24 movie, even though they'd obviously have to change the title (maybe CTU?).
I think it could be done in real-time too. Remember Nick of Time with Johnny Depp? It was sort of a mixed bag, but it pulled off the real-time gimmick fairly well, I think. And 24 has had plenty of pairs of episodes that if you took two of them and put them together would probably make for a great self-contained feature.
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