24 Movie Gets Put on Hold

With all the work the writers of Fox’s hit thriller/drama "24" are doing to pull together the end of the season in their usual hyper-suspenseful, super-action-packed fashion, it’s no surprise that Kiefer Sutherland was talking about the planned "24" movie being put off until next year so the show’s team of writers could take a proper crack at bringing the series to the big screen. Well, it was just talk and a concern just a short while ago, but as Day Six hurdles towards its final hours, the U.K. site Digital Spy (the film is supposedly going to be set in Britain) has reported that Sutherland announced the indefinite suspension of plans to make the movie this summer.

The strain on the writers to pull together the last harried and stressful hours of the day is just too great, apparently, to risk the feature film suffering because the script was thrown together in a frenzy to get the movie made. Jack Bauer is always rushed, but his big screen debut shouldn’t be. This certainly seems wise, and since Sutherland has made allusions to next summer being the fallback in case of a postponement, it’s likely to not be a discouraging delay that could drag out for years, but only a short-term one that would set the film back a year or two, as opposed to a decade (as happens with some movies we all cling to hopes of seeing one day when they finally get gears in motion).