In 2014, 24: Live Another Day revisited all-around badass Jack Bauer four years after the main 24 series concluded. However, the limited series left off on a relatively open-ended note with Kiefer Sutherland’s character. Talk of a 24 revival has subsisted since then, and in September, Sutherland shared that executive producer Howard Gordon came up with an idea that he likes. Gordon has now confirmed this is true, although he does have a specific concern about moving forward with a 24 revival.
Gordon, who worked on 24 for the entirety of its run and served as showrunner for its latter four seasons, discussed this chapter of his career while talking about his new series The Beast in Me, which can now be streamed with a Netflix subscription. When Deadline interviewer Nellie Andreeva brought up what Kiefer Sutherland had said, Gordon stated the revival is “absolutely in process” and being developed, but Disney, the parent company of 20th Century TV, has not “committed to it.” A little later, he provided the following insight into his mind:
