photo credit: The Master Shake Signal[/caption]After 68 Emmy awards, Fox has pulled the plug on the series helmed by Keifer Sutherland due to lower ratings and the growing cost it took to make 24 - this blogger has opined on the series finale… discussing 24’s impact and how it mirrored life.
No doubt Fox is hoping that the canceled show will gain a sizable movie audience and become a franchise like that of Jason Bourne? For fans like myself, we are already sold to the idea, but can 24 draw an audience to support a movie… much less becoming a franchise? I think that Sutherland and the subject matter is fodder for good writers to flesh out the 24 hour real time concept and succeeding in giving Fox the franchise it covets.
Lest we forget that Sutherland had been a star before 24 and can do so again if all the variables are in sync; the plot should be rather easy because it can be plucked from the headlines; we need the classic bad guy; avoid like the plague the political correctness that is now plaguing Hollywood on enhanced interrogation.
Do not make blanket statements saying that it doesn’t work - simply take the truthful, middle ground that sometimes enhanced enforcement does work; focus on the daughter/father relationship… underscoring how difficult it is for someone involved in wanton killings to shut it off and be a normal dad; portray how the bureaucracy cost lives and the difficulty in finding the middle ground in balancing the interests of our intelligence and civil liberties.
Show how various aspects of the Threat Matrix are prioritized; give us a female agent that is sexy and lethal at the same time, ala La Femme Nikita… and show us the wrenching sacrifices that many of the unsung heroes play without the public at large being privy due to the secret nature of the job (Anyone remembered how Edgar, the computer geek died in CTU?).
Jack Bauer is our version of James Bond without the rabid, rabbit horniness; Bauer is that flawed patriot who knows that the world operates not in black and white like the world of Jason Bourne, but in grey… highlighting the human condition in all its complexities. I am among many who would like to see a 24 hour movie on the big screen… representing the common man with a little poetic license from Hollywood.
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