’24’ Movie Killed by Fox Over Budget Issues

According to The Wrap: “Kiefer Sutherland is furious at 20th Century Fox, which has called a halt to the movie version of his hit television show, “24,” over budget and star salary issues.”

The movie (set to be a big-screen spin-off of the long running show) was in pre-production and scheduled to start shooting next month, was shut down because Fox refuses to pay no more than $30 million to get it made.  Sutherland, who is producing/staring, and producer Brian Grazer feel the budget should be no less than $40 million.

Sutherland, planned on filimg the new movie during the hiatus of his new FOX show ‘Touch’, but with the movie currently dead who knows what his hiatus will entail. Perhaps, he’ll make an appearance in the next ‘Lost Boys‘ direct-to-DVD sequel. At this point, that sounds more likely than my getting to see ’24’ on the big screen. Guess, I’ll just have to settle for (what I can only assume to be) a subpar sequel to ‘Die Hard‘.