By Germain Lussier/May 13, 2013 8:49 am EST
Don’t expect this to lead into a movie, however. Reilly said this event is in lieu of the planned movie that could never quite get off the ground. TV Line summarized his quote on the topic.
So mark it down on your calendar, one year from this month, 24: Live Another Day returns to television.
[The producers realized that] 24 compressed into two hours is not 24," said Reilly. The limited series conceit “is the perfect format” because it’s essentially the original 24 minus 12 hours of filler. “The spine of the original 24 episodes was about 12 hours,” Reilly pointed out. “Those were when the big events occurred, and then there were little events and connective tissue in between. So [we’re] taking the best 12 [of the 24].
