Posted on 01/18/2015 11:07:11 AM PST by EdnaMode
Are Jack Bauer or the real-time format at the heart of 24? Fox brass are likely wrestling with that dilemma as they are weighing a possible new limited series installment of the popular franchise.
That’s because the network has been pitched a followup to last summer’s 24: Live Another Day that may or may not feature 24 signature star Kiefer Sutherland. In the the idea, which comes from 24/24: Live Another Day executive producers Howard Gordon, Evan Katz and Manny Coto, “there is a point at which Jack Bauer could come in and fit organically into the story, or they are prepared to do… one installment without him,” Fox TV Group chairman Dana Walden said after the Fox executive session today. Imagine TV and Brian Grazer also will be back.
“Potentially, he won’t be in this installment, we’re not sure yet,” Walden said. She stressed that there is no plan to permanently drop Jack Bauer from future seasons of 24. “We’re talking about whether there’s one installment that he’s not in.”
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Like “The Garden” without Eve.
Last season sucked, whispering nitwit, they will go PC no Islamic terrorist plots, even though they are happening as we speak.
Like Frosty The Snowman with out the snowman.
Without Jack, what’s the point?
Since both Chuch Norris, and Superman wear Jack Baur underwear there is no way a series without Jack would be something I would watch. oh, and that includes “chloe” character. Integral to who and what Jack is. Like Hetty is NCIS: LA...Jack is “24”!
I sorta felt that way about the “Bourne” series. Only they should have just cast Jeremy Renner from the get go, instead of the guy from F.A.G.
Don’t bother! “24” fans are Bauer fans.
What world do these people live in? No Jack and you have no show, at least not one anyone would watch. It is like making a Dirty Harry movie without Clint Eastwood!
Translation: FOX doesn’t want to pay the salary Kiefer Sutherland is demanding.
Yup.
It would be a bomb No Jack no 24
Fox doesn’t know jack about their fans.
They will find out VERY quickly the stupidity of this move, free markets always work and in the end Keifer will end up with double the money!!!!!
Eastern European Fascists again?
Maybe Jack can wear a turbin and fight those evil Tea Partiers.
Pray America wakes up
Reminds me of when they tried The X-Files with no Mulder, pretty much sent the series downhill.
——Translation: FOX doesn’t want to pay the salary Kiefer Sutherland is demanding——
I think this is Fox putting out a trial Ballon to put a little pressure on Sutherland to compromise...
They cannot be that stupid to think for a moment “24” will fly without a Jack Bauer character...
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