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Note the narrator has changed from the teaser leaked on the Internet a while back, definitely for the better.

What do you think? Crapapalooza II or could be good? No matter what, you have to admit it’ll be cool to see Jack, tied up to a bamboo cage and being burned on the face with a hot machete, killing the bad guy with his legs. That’ll learn tribal rebels not to tie Jack’s legs up, too.

Carlyle, who’s going to be in the Season 7 prequel movie in November playing Jack’s long-lost best bud, claimed that the two-hour prequel would be the first two hours of Day 7.

Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Wrong!

I’m quite relieved, as that would have been supremely stupid. I can just see Jack’s plane ride back from Africa, with Congress waiting to hear his testimony.

15:13: Jack settles into coach. The person in front of him reclines and they haven’t even taxied the runway yet. Jack yanks his seat belt off his seat, wraps it around the guy’s neck, yelling, “Dammit! Can’t you even wait for us to take off? Try that again and I’ll shove a towel down your throat and then pull it back up!”

18:28: Jack can’t nap. Asks for an extra pillow. Stewardess tells him she’ll take a look for one. He leaps from his seat, shoves her up against the wall of the galley, holding her by the neck, yelling, “Dammit! I don’t have time for you to look!” She suggests he lay off the caffeinated drinks for the rest of the trip.

00:34: Jack has been drinking in hopes of falling asleep. He’s leaning over his seatmate, slurring, “And then Kim – KIIIIMMMMMM! – stopped talking to me just becaush my partner killed her mommy. TERRRIIIIII!” Breaks down sobbing. Stewardess cuts off the alcohol supply. He slams her up against the wall of the galley, holding her by the neck.

Please add your suggestions in the comments below.

By the way, I compiled a whole lot of bloggy stuff about Jack and Kiefer here, if you care to peruse.

Season 6.5 is on the verge of starting filming, and it’s going to be filmed in South Africa, apparently.

A writer for iAfrica.com stopped by some unfinished bridge in Cape Town to snap a pic to illustrate where he (she?) thought would be a good site for the telemovie/prequel/way to tide very impatient 24 fans over. A very nondescript yet professional film crew of sorts was out there, scouting the scene.

There were no markings on any of the trucks and it was all very hush-hush, unlike CTU.

Then, a barely literate reader of this site had this to say:

when my brother was picking up a friend at the airport at 8.40 this morning he saw the wonderfull kiefer coming off a BA flight arriving in Cape Town. i was very dissapointed to have missed all the excitement.

To avoid spoilers, the scripts being given to South Africans auditioning for walk-on roles and the like are rather oblique:

A Cape Town actor-mole I know went to an audition for it about two weeks ago and according to him the script was so cryptic you couldn’t work out what was going on context-wise — to protect the storyline.

They’d better keep spoilers to a minimum this year, though. Almost every frakkin’ spoiler last season was inaccurate, except the one about drain-bamaged Audrey. Why couldn’t that have been wrong?

Scotsman Robert Carlyle has been tapped to co-star in the two-hour 24 film set to air in November, so sez British paper, The Sunday Mail.

Carlyle will play Benton, Jack Bauer’s friend and mentor (a better one than Robocop, it would appear) and a former agent who “quit and became a charity worker in Africa,” a story in The Mail said:

An insider said: “Benton is not expected to appear in the seventh season but nothing is set in stone.”
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A friend of Carlyle said: “Robert has done this kind of role before, so he will be fantastic as Benton. American audiences love Robert’s gritty approach to that sort of character, as do producers.

“It would be great if 24 could find a continuing place for Benton in the seventh series.”

You might know Carlyle from his roles in Trainspotting, The Full Monty or 28 Weeks Later.

P.S.: In Digital Spy, Kiefer promises the best season yet of 24.

After so many postponements, I can assure you that none of us at 24 took for granted the significance of this upcoming season. But the time allowed us to do something that has never been done before – create a map of the entire season before we started shooting. So I can tell you without hesitation, I know for a fact, that Season 7 is going to be the best season yet.

Thank god. I mean, the Season 6 crapapalooza seemed as if no one ever knew what the plot was supposed to be and just kept tossing crap in there.

I mean, who, really, was Josh’s father? What did happen in Denver? (Not that The Jack Sack was any more helpful in answering that, ahem.) The entire season felt as if the writers weren’t sure where to go next and at the last second said, “Whoa! It’d be cool if Morris could get some booze at a liquor store just a few miles from the nuclear blast zone so he could have conflict with Chloe, no?”

If they have a chance to map the whole thing and and bring us a season with continuity and believable situations (relatively speaking, that is) hoo-frakkin’-ray.

A two-hour “prequel” telemovie for 24 has been set for fall, The Hollywood Reporter has reported.

Woo-hoo! We don’t have to wait ’til fall.

It’s supposed to “bridge the gap” between the Season 6 crapapalooza and the potentially awesome Season 7 with Tony Almeida’s triumphant return (OK, maybe not so triumphant, given that he’s a bad, bad man, it seems).

The Reporter said that yesterday, the show’s producers “began securing the show’s core cast members for the film.”

More to ponder later. Have ideas for the movie? Leave ‘em in the comments.