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Sutherland gives “24” movie update
Though it still sounds like its about twenty years off (sarcasm love), Kiefer Sutherland tells About.com that the “24” movie is coming together nicely – and no, it won’t mean the end of the series.
“It’s something that we really, really want to make”, Sutherland tells the site. “The real key difference would be that the 24 hour film would be a 2-hour representation of a 24 hour day. It would be the first thing that we didn’t do in real time. Mainly, you have to understand, we’re making two episodes every three weeks. We would have three months to make a two hour [movie]. Just to have that kind of time to really allow our cinematographer and our director and the writers to focus on such a finite thing, and actually be able to do a film that really has a conclusion, I think would be really exciting not only for us to make but I think for an audience as well.”
The movie won’t use the real-time format of the series, though. Sutherland doesn’t think audiences will much give a shit.
“Because I think after five years and specifically when we go to shoot it after six years, the characters have been even more defined. I think that the sensibility of the show is really entrenched. The audience that it would be going after really understands those characters and has a certain expectation, and we will do everything we can to meet that.”
Though the movie won’t fit in with the TV show – i.e you’ll be able to watch the movie, and not necessarily have to be a fan of the show – plans are to do both concurrently.
“Everybody compares it to X-Files the movie, except with X-Files the movie, the show was done – or at least he was done with it – at that point. I actually believe that the film and the show can actually coexist and for quite some time. I think once that starts to happen, the dynamic between television and film will really change in a major way.”
The advantage of film is that Elisha Cuthbert and Mia Kirschner can participate in a no-holds-barred hardcore sex romp. Am I right, or am I right?
