24 likely to end this season (Official)

[DarKush]

Re: 24 likely to end this season

Season seven was okay, but the show peaked in watchability with the fifth season and in quality with the second season.

I agree with this sentiment. I think it's time for the show to wrap it up. I'm just glad that it somewhat redeemed itself from the atrocious Season Six. I don't quite understand why anyone would consider 24 a good feature film option anymore, particularly if they are planning on doing a big budget feature. I mean, the feature film really should've happened about 4 or 5 years ago when the show was really riding high. Now with a dwindling audience and the possible stench of cancellation following it, how much interest can this film generate? Plus you've got the Bond and Bourne movies still out there, not to mention random spy movies like Angelina Jolie's upcoming Salt, which cover similar territory. Perhaps if they made 24 fairly cheaply and made it pretty kickass then maybe it could make a healthy profit, but it just seems like 24 really needs a big budget; for the most part it has given the audience silver screen action and FX for most of its run and I feel it needs to go bigger if its going the feature film route.

 

[Dream]

I don't quite understand why anyone would consider 24 a good feature film option anymore, particularly if they are planning on doing a big budget feature. I mean, the feature film really should've happened about 4 or 5 years ago when the show was really riding high.

Yeah, I think the 24 movie will do okay at best. Most TV show have a tough time making the change to films. The 24 movie will probably do about as well at the first X-Files movie or the early TNG movies.

They need keep the budget from getting too high if they want to make sequels.

 

[Morpheus 02]

i don't understand how long they expect to go with Jack Bauer in the movies, which typically take 2 years to make...Are they going to finally kill him off when he becomes a GREAT-grandpa?

And assuming a real time format...what kind of crisis can they finish in 2 hours (other than resorting to Lost-style flashbacks)?

 

[Trekker4747]

i don't understand how long they expect to go with Jack Bauer in the movies, which typically take 2 years to make...Are they going to finally kill him off when he becomes a GREAT-grandpa?

And assuming a real time format...what kind of crisis can they finish in 2 hours (other than resorting to Lost-style flashbacks)?

It's been suggested in the past that the format of the movie would be that the first hour would be the first 23 hours of the day condensed into an hour and the last hour of the movie would be in real time.

 

[Aragorn]

They can lower the stakes and turn Jack Bauer into a John McClane, meaning a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just taking out bad guys who want money or something, instead of terrorists who want to blow up the White House and destabilize the stock market as a diversion to win an Ebay auction.

 

[DarKush]

I don't quite understand why anyone would consider 24 a good feature film option anymore, particularly if they are planning on doing a big budget feature. I mean, the feature film really should've happened about 4 or 5 years ago when the show was really riding high.

Yeah, I think the 24 movie will do okay at best. Most TV show have a tough time making the change to films. The 24 movie will probably do about as well at the first X-Files movie or the early TNG movies.

They need keep the budget from getting too high if they want to make sequels.

One thing to point out though was that both ST GEN and the first X-Files films came out when those shows were very popular. In fact they were at the height of their popularity, TNG just ending a successful TV run and the X-Files roughly in the middle of its run. Both films did well at the box office, helped in no small part because of that popularity.

A 24 movie would happen during the down slide of the series. I don't think its going to happen. I don't know if how much of a groundswell from 24 fans there is for a film. I got the feeling its going to be similar to that movie option deal that Rick Berman had after the end of ENT that didn't really didn't go anywhere, even though the ST: The Beginning script was written.

 

[Dream]

A 24 movie would happen during the down slide of the series. I don't think its going to happen. I don't know if how much of a groundswell from 24 fans there is for a film. I got the feeling its going to be similar to that movie option deal that Rick Berman had after the end of ENT that didn't really didn't go anywhere, even though the ST: The Beginning script was written.

If they are doing a movie, they really have to do it quickly like the first X-files movie and Star Trek Generations. If they wait 2 years after the show ends, there won't be much interest.

 

[tomalak301]

Just curious, but if they did a 24 movie, what difference would it be from Bond, or Bourne or any other thriller type movie. Seems like this whole movie thing might not be the best idea in the long run.

 

[Jax]

I wonder if to suit more real time action if a 2 part movie would work better? so either Summer/Christmas or back to back summer. 24 Part 1 would be 12 hours and 24 part 2 would be 12 hours with each containing real time for the last hour and the first hour being 11 hours.

 

[Captaindemotion]

They can lower the stakes and turn Jack Bauer into a John McClane, meaning a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just taking out bad guys who want money or something, instead of terrorists who want to blow up the White House and destabilize the stock market as a diversion to win an Ebay auction.

I kind of wish that they'd done that with the tv show - after the nuclear detonation in S6, they should have gone for a more low-key approach (though S7 was still very good).

Of course, it should be noted that the John McClane movies have also seen an escalation of the threat he faces. From 'a common thief' ('I am an exceptional thief!) in Die Hard to a country being hijacked in DH4 ...

 

[Dream]

Of course, it should be noted that the John McClane movies have also seen an escalation of the threat he faces. From 'a common thief' ('I am an exceptional thief!) in Die Hard to a country being hijacked in DH4 ...

The first Die Hard movie is the most personal and the best. Concidence? I think not.

 

[Mr Light]

Haven't they said at the beginning of S7 and S8 that this season the threat would be more low key and personal but of course that never actually happens?

 

[NX74205]

24 is one of my favorite shows of all time. I will dearly miss it when it goes off the air next year. I need to run off and buy all the seasons on dvd.

 

[Trekker4747]

24 is one of my favorite shows of all time. I will dearly miss it when it goes off the air next year. I need to run off and buy all the seasons on dvd.

It's going off the air this year.

 

[wamdue]

24 is one of my favorite shows of all time. I will dearly miss it when it goes off the air next year. I need to run off and buy all the seasons on dvd.

It's going off the air this year.

a conclusive end to 24 will make for a sweet box set, the problem is FOX might go mess it up by putting a movie out, thus ruining the boxset.

Seriously my sister has a Sex in the City boxset, nice design, but having the movie DVD next to it on the shelf looks stupid.

That said I am guilty I have the Firefly DVD boxset and then the Serenity movie DVD.

The good thing about Spiderman being reset is that they can bring out a sweet boxset of the 3 Toby Maguire Sipderman movies, without the worry it will ever be added to.

Why does anybody ever buy a Bond boxset?

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Studio and network execs declined comment -- but it's believed that the final decision will be made in the next day or two. Move is not a huge surprise, but still reps the end of an era for Fox.

"24" helped usher in Fox's ratings surge in the 2000s, as the franchise -- along with "American Idol" and "House," among other series -- led the network to the No. 1 spot in the adults 18-49 demo.

But the cost of producing "24" has continued to increase, while ratings have dipped. A one-time critical darling, "24" has also received its share of knocks from critics this season.

The studio is said to be considering shopping "24" to other nets -- but given the thriller's age and pricetag, it's believed interest from other outlets will be limited.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016256.html?categoryId=14&cs=1

This is probably for the best. The last great season was season 5, and according to many fans the current season is a little lackluster. Let's not even mention season 6.

To that I say, 'Good fucking riddance!'

This show justified torture and tried to pass it off as heroic-something that was NEVER done on TV-just to satiate the average person's wish for revenge post-9/11. I can't believe a producer & writer could even stoop so low, but they did. And to think that the producer also produced Enterprise as well.

 

[Harvey]

Well, the show has been smart enough to never pass of torture as heroic (thus Jack's suffering hero), but it sure as hell has justified it over the years. People almost always confess, and their confessions are almost always accurate. There was a passing line last season where Larry Moss mentioned that confessions under torture are unreliable, but it wasn't a point treated very seriously.

That mostly began in seasons 3 and 4, though. The show was a different beast during season one (which began production before 9/11) and season two.