Yahoo News 24 boss says three things killed Jack Bauer's movie
Jack Bauer's spin-off 24: Legacy is mere weeks away, but now we finally know what killed off the feature length movie that would've seen our favourite CTU agent hit the big screen.
Brian Grazer spoke about his love of the Kiefer Sutherland action series during the TCA press tour and after it finished, he was very keen to create another terrible day for Jack Bauer to endure.
Despite working on it for two years, Grazer was never able to get a film to work, even though his creative partner Ron Howard and the main man Sutherland were both signed up.
There were three main reasons for this, Grazer explained (via Deadline): "It just worked better for television.
"We couldn't really find the right world to put it in, the right location. To base it in America seemed not very authentic, whereas to do a TV show in America was the perfect bridge.
"We put it in European countries, but it wasn't working there with the economics, we couldn't find enough money to make it. So we couldn't find the right location, we couldn't find the right story, and it was always too expensive."
So there you have it, money, location and the fact it was just way better on the tellybox. Still, Grazer has always been a huge fan of the show and wanted to do anything to keep it going.
"I was such a fan of (the original series) because it was such an amazing serendipitous intersection between narrative form, what was going on in the culture and what was going to happen in the culture," he explained.
"I became an insane fan who would just champion this into another life which would be a ninth season (Live Another Day)."
We're finally getting the next chapter in the shape of 24: Legacy, which will star Straight Outta Compton's Corey Hawkins as a modern-day Jack Bauer, although it wasn't originally intended to be a sequel.
Hawkins will be battling the elusive terrorist exploits of groups like ISIS as the show hopes to be more representative and give Americans a hero they can admire – just as Jack Bauer did back in 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on New York's Twin Towers and the Pentagon in Washington DC.
Grazer added: "I think middle America will watch the show and they will feel a sense of escape and relief by watching it."
The latest trailer for 24: Legacy saw the return of the show's infamous villain Tony Almeida, and Digital Spy has singled out all those plot holes the show will need to fill from the Bau-era.
24: Legacy premieres on Fox following the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 5. It will air on Tuesday, February 14 at 9pm on FOX in the UK.
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