Back in June, Fox announced that it was developing a 24 spinoff which would continue the series without its main man, Jack Bauer, played by Keifer Sutherland.
Well, the network has now officially granted a pilot order to 24: Legacy, which will “revolve around a military hero’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back — 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.”
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“The character was originally conceived as being a diverse actor,” states Fox CEO Dana Walden. “We wanted it to be as different from Jack Bauer as possible. That was the original thinking behind having this be a diverse lead. Whether that’s African-American or a Latino actor, we’ve been really excited by some of the people we’ve been seeing throughout our internal process.”
The new series will retain the original format of real-time storytelling, with each episode accounting for an hour. Production on the pilot is expected to take place this winter.
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Originally published January 16, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
