According to this article, there are serious talks about reviving the series “24” for a limited run.
Poor Jack - once again 24 hours without a bathroom break or time to eat…plus he will be water boarded, shot, stabbed, burned, pistol whipped, zapped with a car battery, chained and called bad names - and yet, five minutes later, he is still able to leap from tall buildings and run fast enough to escape explosions in buildings, all the while holding a kitten in one arm and a little girl in the other to escape terrorists, serial killers and dingos.
Looks like it’s going to be called “Live Another Day” (which I hope they change, as it’s too reminiscent of Die Another Day, and I don’t know that anything needs to reminds us of that again, ever).
It’ll be 12 episodes and still encompass 24 total hrs.
Seems this’ll be in lieu of the development-hell proposed feature film.
I bailed on the show after season 4 or 5, so I have to ask - did anyone on the show ever address the fact the they seemed to be having these really action-filled 24-hour periods once every year or so? I mean, did Jack ever say something like “Don’t piss me off - I’m having another one of those days”?
The period of time between seasons flunctuated. Sometimes it was a year, sometimes it was two. I believe season three begins three years after the end of season 2.
But you jumped ship at just the right time. The end of season 4 is really the perfect series finale for the show and while I loved it at the time, it would have much more of a legacy if it went out on top.
I think that basically matches when Joel Surnow, the creator and producer, left.
The season w/ Jack’s father and uncle was pretty bad. The last two, DC and NYC, weren’t as bad… but there was a certain sense as a viewer of “finishing for the sake of finishing”
Back when the show was airing I’m sure someone calculated what year it would be if the timeline was accurate and we all wondered why they were still driving those old cars in the far-flung distant future.
As far as a 12 episode “24” goes, I’m cool with it. They had pretty much abandoned the “events happen in real time” conceit by the last few seasons anyway.
I did the math once based on the assumption that season 1 took place in 2004 (and specifically on March 3rd, the day of the CA presidential primary), the next presidential election year after it aired;
Season 2 takes place in July 2005
Season 3 takes place in October 2008
Season 4 takes place in spring 2010
Season 5 takes place in autumn 2011
Season 6 takes place in March 2013
Season 7 takes place in spring 2017
Season 8 I didn’t watch, so I don’t know
I believe that in season 4 you see a character’s CA driver’s license blown up on the screen large enough to verify that that episode is meant to be set in 2010, but I don’t recall the specifics at this point.
Just one small knock on the fourth wall in Season 8. Jack goes into a convenience store and buys a bunch of throw-away cell phones. He tells the clerk “I don’t need the chargers.” That’s about as close as they ever came.
Only if you misinterpret what they mean by “events happen in real time”
It doesn’t, and never did, mean that if it takes you an hour to drive from point a to point b it will take Jack that long. It meant something that happens in ep two is taking place an hour after ep one, something in ep 12 is 11 hrs after ep one, etc. They never abandoned that at all.
Makes me wonder where Joel Surnow went. He was involved with that Kennedys documentary miniseries that got blackballed a couple of years ago… and since then? Even his IMDB seems a bit thin…