24 Revival, Plan B: Death Row Thriller Might Beat Out Young Jack Bauer
Matt Webb Mitovich
Chief Content Officer
On the heels of the rather polarizing announcement that the next 24 revival might follow a young Jack Bauer, Fox execs have made clear that an altogether different storytelling option remains on the table.
With now 18 months having passed since the previous reboot, 24: Legacy starring Corey Hawkins, made it to air, Fox is mulling two options for the real-time thriller’s next iteration.
There is of course what some have already coined “Bauer: A 24 Story,” which was reported on earlier this week. “We still think [24] has a lot of power, a lot of legs,” Fox CEO Gary Newman said on Thursday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. “In terms of the prequel [concept], people love Jack Bauer,” and telling his origin story would be “a story that the audience would very much connect with.”
The second reboot scenario, meanwhile, would move the franchise “from terrorism and security into the legal world,” a notion that Newman said the producers have bandied about since Season 3 or 4, as they pondered the series’ longer-term prospects.
When rejiggering the premise, “You have to look for an arena where the stakes are high and time matters,” Newman said, and thus 24-as-legal thriller would deal with the wrongful execution of a prisoner on death row, and there are just (you guessed it!) 24 hours left for the hero to prove the convict’s innocence.
“It potentially carries some of the same values,” Newman said. “There are real emotional stakes involved.”
Of the two reboot scenarios, which would you most be interested in?
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Can’t wait to read the comments on this, lol.
only 24 formula i will accept….. kiefer hunting down terrorists from various nationalities…..
Then who is he going to kill and blow up? Haha
That would be a lot of firepower for a legal thriller.
why dont they just pay sutherland to play jack or 3 more seasons?
Of the two options I would go with young Bauer!
I wonder if this would be just a legal drama (like The Good Wife, but 24 style, say) or have anyway a bit of an action-ish 24 vibe (maybe akin to Prison Break’s first season). Probably I’d prefer the former, but the latter could also be fun
I’d imagine closer to Damages only significantly less dark.
I think if they have to do a legal drama, then it should somehow be connected to getting Jack out of the Russian prison. They could have Kiefer in a few scenes to keep us fans happy. And, It would wrap up his story and lead the way to more seasons with the legal team.
Jack Bauer is 24 bring him back
Perhaps Fox is waiting to see how ‘Jack Ryan’ does before deciding if they want to do the young Jack Bauer series or the death row concept?
Why don’t they just make a 24 style season of Prison Break at that rate? 😂
it need kiefer to in this it should start with the older jack in prison as he flashes back into past
would rather a movie 24 with kiefer Sutherland and his father Donald !
It’s not like Kiefer isn’t available any more. Why can’t they just pony up the dough and make a final season with him? Instead they beat around the bush with this crap. They should have learned their lesson that the real time format isn’t the star of the show. The characters that have been there for years are, unless you super dumb them down to mannequin status like Tony in that stupid spin off.
And as for the dumb prequel. He says in season 1, “This is the longest day of my life.” Or something like that. So what came before can’t be too bad.
I would like it where it left off with the real Jack, escaping from a Russian prison and getting the payback everyone deserves.
Without Jack Bauer, there is no 24. Nobody cares. Bring Jack and Chloe back
Fox, stop trying to make 24 happen. It’s not going to happen.
best 24 idea is have the prison break gang break jack out of the russian prison and then take down the bad guys all the way home while stopping a conspiracy along the way. resolution for jack + a great prison break story line and combines 2 fox shows.
– nuff said
THIS
II want to see what happened to Jack after he went into the helicopter with the Russians !!
The prequel series should be about Operation: Nightfall, which involved Jack Bauer, then-Senator David Palmer, and Victor Drazen (the big bad in Season 1), set two years before Day 1, so he was married to Teri, and Kim was a slightly younger teenager than when we first saw her.
I don’t care whether it’s a Reality show, Cartoons , Comedy, whatsoever….just BRING BACK JACK!!!
I in my opinion of course the only way I see the show being a hit is Keifer has to return as Jack B..
To answer the question: “Neither”. Though if somebody held a gun to my head… eh, maybe young Jack with the right actor? Maybe?
Without Jack Bauer, any faux 24 will FAIL!
WHERE ARE THE TORTS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? TELL ME!!
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Jack Bauer aka Kiefer Sutherland. Of course. But the Russians still have him. If he isn’t dead already…..
For the love of God, will someone PLEASE get Jack Bauer out of that Russian gulag!! Kiefer Sutherland is Jack Bauer, and Jack Bauer is 24. Accept no substitutions.
Bring back kiefer