More Details On The “24″ Prequel Movie
![](http://www.popcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/24_cast.jpg "The Cast of \\"24\\" Season Seven")
We’ve been keeping you up to date on the prequel movie for “24” that is set to premiere on Fox this Fall because it is supposed to lead in to the seventh season of the show that starts next January. Well, Robert Carlyle, who has a major role in the film recently spoke with Premiere and gave us some new details.
Carlyle revealed a little more about his role in the prequel:
My character’s called Carl Benton who is Jack Bauer’s best buddy and he hasn’t seen him for 10 years or something. Jack’s on his travels and he comes to see Carl and hang out with him and potentially change his life. Maybe…
I think we all know that means he’ll end up turning against Jack somehow. They all do.
I have been wondering how they would do the movie since the series itself is famous for it’s “real-time” format where each one hour episode is one hour in the day. Well, Carlyle confirmed that the two hour prequel will take place in real time and that the movie will lead directly into the series.
This two hours is two hours in real time and there’ll then be 22 episodes. I don’t know how they connect it to the first of those 22 episodes but it’s literally the third hour…
So, wait a second. There’s only 22 episodes?
If you’re a fan of the show at all you know that there are always exactly 24 episodes to coincide with the 24 hours in a day. Fox has been leading us to believe that the prequel will be an additional two hour film that will lead us into the 24 HOUR SEASON. Guess that’s wrong. It looks like the prequel is actually just the first two episodes of the seventh season more or less. Then, when the season comes around we’ll only get 22 episodes instead of the 24 we’d normally get.
That’s really disappointing.
What do you think? Are they ripping us off or is this a good way to tide us over while we wait for the new season to finally arrive in January?
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I guess this doesn't make sense to me. Dang, they are just stealing two episodes from the back end and putting them on the front to get fans back into the show, yet screw us on the other side.
Not sure I like it.
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http://www.switched.com/2008/06/24/kiefer-suthe...
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Bauer-nator.
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Nobody turns down Jack Bauer and lives to tell about it! NOBODY!
Those guys will be dead by next week...and Jack Bauer will photograph it all with the new I-phone that he pries from their cold dead hands.
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