When’s it back? Sky1, November
Previously on 24… Well, it’s been an awful long time since we’ve had a previously, that pesky writers’ strike in America resulting in a long delay from the end of the last series – the sixth – to the start of the seventh.
But you can never write Jack off, and, cue drumroll, he’ll be back this November in 24: Redemption, a two-hour feature-length drama that will give fans their adrenalin fix until the seventh series screens on Sky1 early next year.
The film – which was orginally titled 24: Exile but has recently been renamed – finds Jack trying to be somewhere he can ‘be at peace’. but there’s no way that’s going to happen. Before our hero can say ‘dammit’, he finds himself caught up in a military coup in Africa on the day that Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) is sworn in as the first female US President in Washington.
The prequel is filmed in South Africa, which stands in as the fictional country of Sangala, and the cast includes Robert Carlyle as a mentor of Jack’s who runs a school for rescued child soldiers, and Jon Voight as a seriously bad bad guy.
24: Redemption is directed by Jon Cassar and promises us all the action we can handle, but there’s still no sign either here or in Day 7 of Jack taking a break for a coffee or grabbing a sandwich. ‘Whenever they cut to the White House,’ Sutherland has joked, ‘Jack is in the bathroom. And not only is he peeing, he’s having a drink and getting something to eat.’
Below you’ll find a trailer, and you can find more clips and trailers at the excellent fansite 24fans.net.
