US TV show '24' is set to be made into a film.
According to insiders, 'State of Play' screenwriter Billy Ray is in talks with US network Fox to create a movie based on the show, which has run into eight series.
Last month, '24' star Kiefer Sutherland - who plays lead character Jack Bauer - admitted he was interested in doing a big screen version because the "game has changed".
He said: "I think the resistance to it is because in my father's generation if you did films you didn't even think about television.
"That was a death knell. And if you did television, you wouldn't be allowed to do films. That was when we had three networks. We have six hundred now, and if I want to see Paul Newman in a movie, I don't have to go out. And so the game has changed. And I think we're going to have to adjust with it."
Kiefer also suggested that the movie could be a "two-hour representation of a day".
Reports suggest the feature would see Jack come to Europe, although planning is still in the preliminary stages.
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Last updated: 09 February 2010, 12:00
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