Posted on 11/01/2017 11:26:28 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Fox is developing a potential new incarnation of its Emmy-winning drama series that would have a female lead and take the real-time format of the terrorism-themed original and apply it to a different arena, criminal justice.
The project, which has received a script commitment, hails from 24 franchise executive producers Howard Gordon and Imagine’s Brian Grazer, as well as former The Killing writer-producer Jeremy Doner and the franchise’s production companies, 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV. Doner will write the script with Gordon, who ran the original series.
Details about the premise are sketchy, but I hear that the potential new 24 series centers on a female prosecutor who uncovers a legal conspiracy and has to work against the clock to save a death row inmate facing imminent execution whom she had helped prosecute but may be innocent. I hear this is part of an anthological take on 24 that would tackle a new world with new characters each season.
The idea is in line with the plans for the 24 franchise outlined by Fox bosses during the summer TCA in August.
”We are really exploring what the future, the next version of 24 might be, maybe in more anthological storytelling,” Fox chairman Dana Walden said then, with sources at the time indicating the network may develop multiple ideas before deciding which one to proceed with. I hear that still may be the case.
“The same kind of ticking-clock format but apply it to something else,” then-Fox Entertainment president David Madden said at TCA. “It will have the same urgency but may not be set in the CTU, it will have same style and urgency but in a different venue.”
Imagine has been spearheading the efforts to reimagine the 24 franchise after the end of 24: Legacy. I hear the company brought Doner onto the project and introduced him to Gordon.
This would make the latest reinvention of 24. Four years after the acclaimed original series, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, ended its eight-season run on Fox, the network aired follow-up event series 24: Live Another Day, featuring the same lead character, CTU agent Jack Bauer, fighting terrorism threats. Fox, Gordon and Imagine then teamed for 24: Legacy, a new installment in the franchise that again was set at CTU but revolved around a new cast of characters, led by Corey Hawkings.
At Fox, Imagine TV also has flagship drama series Empire and new soapy family drama project Filthy Rich, from The Help writer-director Tate Taylor, which has a put pilot commitment. Imagine and Doner are repped by CAA, with Doner also repped by attorneys Carlos Goodman and Greg Slewett.
Gordon has two put pilot commitments at Fox. One is Classified, an hourlong drama with Marc Guggenheim, and the other is Nightfall, with Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein. He also has a medical drama written by Jason Horwitch, and drama Headshot executive produced by Sanaa Hamri, both with script commitment plus penalty. He is repped by WME and Gendler Kelly.
Make the lead black and lesbian as well as female, and you’ve got the current formula for a winner. /S
That worked do well for Ghostbusters.
If this one doesn’t succeed, perhaps they will come back with Jack Bauer as a transgender.
Make the lead a black tranny, and you’ll be “hip.”
i tried to watch the black dude in 24, couldn’t stand him. Im sure the Fox idiots will make the lead a dyke just like Gotham.
Disabled in a super charged armed wheelchair for the win.
Hillary Clinton solving international plots at subversion of US elections with her tidy bowl clean server.
She isn’t above the law. She is the whole of the law.
New on FOX
I just hope Rush doesn't try to kiss him.
she has to race the clock within 24 hours to beat the Russian “conspiracy”..
Maybe it’s meant to be a sacrificial lamb. Elaborate, expensive Virtue Signaling. If it works, fine, but they don’t expect it to work. Producing such a series will be a PC feather in FOX’s cap. They can then say ‘We tried, we really tried, but the public wouldn’t support our progressive ideas!”
I am triggering! I want to see Moana Bauer, the Pacific Islander Female who saves the country from terror! Why didn’t they even CONSIDER the Island Americans??? I promise Guam will not tip over even after they blow up a ton of Semtox!
Plus this will give Tony a wonderful selection of potential girlfriends.
Hollywood is just full of new ideas /S
The new 24 with the black dude was barely watchable...
NCIS seems to have figuired out how to expand that format by building their shows on different characters with interesting story lines...
24 feet?
Like that ghastly woman baseball player show.
Kevin Spacey as Keyser Söze. Oh, wait . . .
They’ve already done black. Now they want female. Gay is next in line. I guess it’ll come in useful redecorating CTU after it’s blown up every season.
Needless to say, I think “24” without Jack Bauer is utterly pointless.
I watched 24 because Jack Bauer was a good, interesting character and Keifer Sutherland did a great job playing the role.
It wasn’t because he was white or male, it was because he was a complex character, well-acted by a good actor.
It also wasn’t because of the gimmicky “ticking clock” format either.
Make a good show about interesting characters with a good plot and people will watch it.
Make an SJW commercial that checks every box for diversity, and no amount of gimmicks or spin will get people to tune in.
Another strong independent woman who can do a spin kick and knock out guys taller, stronger and who have 100 pounds on her. Yeah I’ve seen that already. My give a care meter is hovering at zero.
24 was great. The remake, the one with BlackJack, stunk. I mean, it was dreadful. Gripping lines such as “don’t make me go Jihad on yo’ azz...”
The proposed one sounds even worse.
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