24 Revival: Fox Orders Pilot for New Series Featuring a New 'Jack'
Fox is officially making time for more 24, albeit sans original star Kiefer Sutherland.
The network announced on Friday that it has ordered a pilot for 24: Legacy, a potential new series that will feature an “all-new cast of characters” yet retain the “real-time, pulse-pounding, fast-paced format with split screens and complex interweaving storylines” of the original.
According to Fox, the project will center on a military hero who encounters a troubled return to the U.S., compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil. I’m told the hero in question (aka the ‘new Jack Bauer’) will be African-American; casting is currently underway.
“There’s a time jump, a new organization, a completely different story,” said Fox co-chairman and CEO Dana Walden at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena. “It’s a contemporary story about the potential to activate sleeper cells in the United States. There are nods in the pilot to prior CTU agents, but no ongoing characters.”
Behind-the-scenes 24 vets Howard Gordon, Manny Coto and Evan Katz will serve as executive producers.
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The new series would span 12 episodes, similar to the recent, acclaimed limited series.
Although there was buzz that Sutherland might make a guest appearance in the new series, such stunt casting seems unlikely now that he’s attached to star in ABC’s upcoming conspiracy thriller Designated Survivor.
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