Jack is Back: 24 “Movie” Set For This Fall

24Season 7 of 24 was scrapped this year due to the Hollywood writers strike, but according to the Hollywood Reporter it now looks like there will be 24 in 2008.

The producers of the Emmy-winning series are developing a two-hour “prequel” to the upcoming seventh season.

The movie, designed to bridge the two-year gap between Seasons 6 and 7, is targeted to air in the fall, leading to the January return of the real-time drama.

On Wednesday, 24 producers began securing the shows core cast members for the film.

The seventh season is set in Washington and features the first female U.S. president, played by Cherry Jones.

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“24″ Season 7 Trailer

24 Season 7

Jack is back, and season seven of 24 has the same plot as Live Free or Die Hard!

The writers say, “There will not be a ticking clock on a nuclear device [and] the villain is not a terrorist [but] someone with a supremely dark past who’s done something horrific and whose ambition is to regain his stature in the world.”

Although this plot sounds somewhat generic nothing gets me off quite like a technological driven apocalypse - consider me on board!

Check out the Season 7 trailer after the jump! Read More »

Garofalo on 24, Will Jack Survive?

Janeane GarofaloFOX’s 24, one of the best shows on television is undergoing a revamp. The show is an action/drama set in real-time, about government agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland, and his trials to avert disaster in twenty-four hours. The series is critically acclaimed and extremely popular for pacing, ability to weave together subplots and its “take no prisoners” attitude towards action.

However, this past year during its sixth season 24’s quality began to decline. Therefore, the seventh season will shift its focus from the fight against global terrorism to a more a personal conflict for the main character. And with the new focus comes some new members to the cast, most notably in outspoken liberal Janeane Garofalo as an FBI agent.

As someone who has watched 24 since the beginning, the new direction intrigues me. Sometimes a change of direction is needed to keep a show fresh and it will be interesting to see Jack deal with a personal conflict especially if it’s a figure from his past that has come to kill him. However if the show turns into the final years of The Sopranos with Jack sitting on the lake rather than taking terrorists out, I might go “Jack Bauer” on the studio. Which brings me to the addition of Garofalo. Read More »