It looks like Jack Bauer fans won’t have to wait until 2009 after all:
The original plan for “24 : Day 7” was for Jack Bauer to head to Africa for a couple of episodes. That didn’t work out. When the season was delayed due to the writer’s strike – it only just started resuming filming – the show’s producers decided it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do a two-hour “24” telemovie, something that would hold viewers over until the long-delayed “Day 7” arrives in January.
EP Manny Coto says a two-hour “prequel” TV movie is expected to air this fall, which will bring Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer to Africa and “lead directly into the events of Season Seven.”
“He’s a soul in turmoil and has been moving from place to place trying to find somewhere he can be at peace,” Coto says. “But he winds up in Africa in the middle of a military coup.”
Meanwhile, Bauer is subpoenaed to appear before the Senate hearing while in Africa, but doesn’t want to go.
“He’s not running away from anything,” Coto says. “It’s because they’ve taken everything from him, but they won’t let them take his freedom.”
Maybe the writer’s strike will turn out to be a good thing if it gives them a chance to send this show off in a new direction.
H/T: Virginia Virtucon
