(Note: I didn’t write this shit. It’s copied and pasted from Fox)After eight seasons, the Kiefer Sutherland-starring spy series “24” will come to an end on May 24. Fox revealed on Friday that this season’s closer will cap off the series. Sutherland further confirmed to EW.com that there won’t be any return to TV for the show on another network. Big screens perhaps, but no network migration.
“The writers are producing the equivalent of 12 films a year, which is unheard of, and producer Howard Gordon] felt to do a ninth would be potentially damaging,” Sutherland said. “We both felt strongly that there has been a demand and an interest in a ’24’ film, which would be a two-hour representation of a 24-hour day, so we felt it was time to move in that direction.”
So the news a few weeks ago about momentum building around a movie adaptation wasn’t idle talk. But which characters will return? Sutherland’s Jack Bauer of course. But who else? Perhaps Chase Edmunds, who was played by “The Pacific” star James Badge Dale?
Chase Edmunds was a notable character during the show’s third season. He was Jack’s partner while also secretly dating his daughter, Kim (a bold, risky move– I wouldn’t want Sutherland pissed at me). He was quite the badass throughout the season… until he lost his hand keeping the world safe from terror. The last time we saw Chase, he was being wheeled away to hopefully have that hand of his reattached.
I asked Badge in a recent interview if we might see Chase come back for a “24” movie and what has character has been up to since we last saw him. “I think Chase is out of shape by now,” he said. “It’s been a long time. He’s been eating, he’s got one hand, he’s a single father. That wears on you man. I think Chase is balding, sitting in a recliner, driving a minivan.”
Sooooooo… no more badass Chase? That’s what it sounds like. I wonder if Badge’s tune will change once the producers approach him to join the movie. It would almost be better if it doesn’t but still appears in the movie, I think.
