'24' in development for feature film - writer hired
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Interesting development. Season 8 may be the final season after all.
But that's the entire premise and "selling point" of the show. What would be the point of calling the show "24" if the season didn't take place over the course of a day?
As one of the creators said back when they were discussing this for Season 2, the clock is a big a character as Jack is. You can't dispense with it.
I think it's a good idea for them to have gone outside the comfort zone and not hired a writer for the tv show for the movie. The current season seems awfully derivative and repetitive - this is an accusation that's been thrown at the show for years now, but this year seems to be the most obviously so.
I liked Flightplan and apparently Shattered Glass was a good movie, so Billy Ray (I keep waiting to see a third name after that, as if he was a country & western singer) could be a good enough choice. Jack Bauer in Europe also seems a good idea - he's done LA numerous times, then Africa, Washington, now New York.
As regards the real-time premise, my bet is that the movie wil be set over a 24 hour period but for the most part will jump around in time. However, I'd bet that the last 40 minutes or so would take place over real time. I think I remember a suggestion before that the movie would feature 3 segments, each set in real time for 40 minutes but I think that this might prove too confining. Building up to the climax in real time would work though.
I liked Flightplan and apparently Shattered Glass was a good movie, so Billy Ray (I keep waiting to see a third name after that, as if he was a country & western singer) could be a good enough choice. Jack Bauer in Europe also seems a good idea - he's done LA numerous times, then Africa, Washington, now New York.
As regards the real-time premise, my bet is that the movie wil be set over a 24 hour period but for the most part will jump around in time. However, I'd bet that the last 40 minutes or so would take place over real time. I think I remember a suggestion before that the movie would feature 3 segments, each set in real time for 40 minutes but I think that this might prove too confining. Building up to the climax in real time would work though.
I had heard the first hour of the movie would be the first 23 hours of the "day" and the last hour would be real time.
I say they need to make a 12-part super movie, each part taking place in real time. They can release it over the course of six years.
They could just call the movie 2. 
I say they need to make a 12-part super movie, each part taking place in real time. They can release it over the course of six years.
No, just release a 24 hour long movie, directed by Lars Von Trier or Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Counter Terrorist People?).
They could just call the movie 2.
I've been saying for years: It should be 2.4.
I hope they make a 24 movie just so I never have to hear jokes about the title of it ever again.
24 3D has a nice ring to it.
I had another idea, they should have done a season of DS9 like this. Starring Kira, of course, and set on Bajor. They could call it.... 26! 
That's a pretty good idea, actually...
Side note:
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They could just call the movie 2.
I've been saying for years: It should be 2.4.
That's a pretty good idea, actually...Side note:
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You can dispense with it if it handicaps the story telling, which it does.
It restrains it, but I don't think it "handicaps" it so much as it just restrains it. And I'd argue that that restraint should just force the writers to be more creative in their efforts.
One could argue that the laws of physics "handicaps story telling" so characters in shows can't fly, or run 50 miles an hour or lift cars. So, somehow, shows and movies featuring non superhuman characters have to work around those.
Seasons 1-3 worked perfectly well in the constraint of the "real time", Seasons 4 and 5 made a mess of it but it seemse sense then they've been trying harder to keep "true" to it.
The real-time thing, for me, makes the show more interesting and just a little bit more engaging.
God, I hope not. I'm fed up with prequels.
The other thing is, when would you set it? Between seasons 1 - 2, Jack is off out of action, mourning Teri. Between 3 -4, he gets sacked, while during this time Tony is in prison and Palmer is stepping down from office. After S4, Jack is pretending to be dead. Post S5, he's in a Chinese prison. After S6, he's off travelling the world.
SO if you want to set it in the CTU world and have the likes of Tony or David Palmer in it, you could only really do between 2 - 3. But why bother?
That is a three-year gap and does give the chance to bring back Tony and Palmer in a useful manner as well as having Chloe in there. So I think it'd be the most suitable time period to set in. (If they do a "prequel" series.)