Corey Hawkins is about to experience the day from hell.
The Straight Outta Compton actor — who’s currently recurring on The Walking Dead as Heath — has landed the starring role in 24: Legacy, Fox’s in-the-works reboot of the seminal real-time thriller.
Hawkins will portray Eric Carter, a strong and smart former Army Ranger who finds himself pulled back into action as his past comes looking for him. He eventually turns to CTU for help in saving his life and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
“There’s a time jump, a new organization, a completely different story,” Fox co-chairman and CEO Dana Walden teased last week. “It’s a contemporary story about the potential to activate sleeper cells in the United States. There are nods in the pilot to prior CTU agents, but no ongoing characters.”
Fox has thus far only ordered a pilot, which will feature nods to prior CTU agents but no ongoing characters — that includes Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack (although the actor may serve as an EP on the project alongside fellow 24 vets Howard Gordon, Manny Coto and Evan Katz).
“I have said from the beginning that the real star of 24 is the idea, and I mean that wholeheartedly,” Sutherland recently said of the revival. “I have every faith they’ll do something cool and clever.”
The new series would span 12 episodes, similar to the recent, acclaimed limited series.
They need to bring back Tony.
Agreed!
What does this mean for Heath? Will he do both shows?
Pass. His character on TWD is incredibly annoying and turned me off of the actor.
Yeaaaaaahhh. You know that he hasn’t even shown up yet, don’t you?
Sure he has but I don’t find him annoying in the least. In fact he’s one of my favorite Alexandria people.
He has glasses and dread locks. He’s an Alexandria resident. I first showed up in the first 8 episodes of this season.
Yeah, I already know this.
Yeah he has.
Not feeling it, it’ll be hard to give it a shot since there wasn’t much closure on the series and they don’t plan on going back to it (at least for now) so I’m on the fence. Also, if they do the 12 episode format, I hope the time jump(s) will be better. (In LAD they jumped from 10pm-10am. They totally ignored 12 hours! Kinda ruins the spirit of the show).
Hope Corey Hawkins should be a great fit as the “black Jack Bauer”.
Okay so its NOT a reboot though, as previously stated. Time jumps, references to past characters….it DOES exist in the same universe, I’m gathering? So there’s totally an opportunity to bring back old characters. I’d love to see Jack, Tony, Chlose…and even some of the lesser known characters come back! Whatever happened to Bill Buchnanen’s wife? She had a main role in two years of the show.
No, and not because he’s black btw!
Just the reboot in general, unless they bring in many more characters from the original. Watch Heroes Reborn to see how badly this could suck.
Couldn’t they bring back Yvonne Strahovski?
She’s better off without this. It will likely fail.
It’s not 24 without Kiefer. No matter how hard Fox tries to sell it. I’ll pass.
AMEN SISTA!
Who is he on The Walking Dead? Not sure how good a thing that is that his character seems totally forgettable. But hey, more 24 is good by me
You probably don’t recognize him because on TWD is has long dreads and wears glasses. He was also in the movie non-stop with Liam Neeson.
I hope to hear about the female lead soon.
Not the most charismatic actor of color they couldve gotten.
This decision probably wasnt made based on any other reason than Straight Outta Compton.
Why no Kate Morgan? Because she’s a woman?
Tony should be in this too!
It’s possible Yvonne isn’t interested. She’s already been in the last and worst season of Dexter. A likely to fail spinoff would be even worse.
All explained here: http://tvline.com/2016/01/15/24-returns-legacy-no-yvonne-strahovski/
Thank you!
But this is very disappointing. They created a badass female character and now they are just going to ignore her. Bravo…
Cool, he’s one of my favorite Alexandria peeps on TWD.
No potato face :-(
Sorry… but “NO”…. to make it worse there will be no “Chloe”…. just a mention of the past character(s).. Why not bring back Yvonne Strahovski? It would have been nice to see a strong female lead… Meh! Not a happy “24” fan… I will miss the Bauer Power!
Sorry, but the concept felt tired and played out a long time ago. Getting a new actor in there isn’t going to magically change that and make the idea suddenly seem fresh and new again.
24 without Jack is like Tom without Jerry!
Exactly, why do they do this stuff and spoil things. I wont be watching without jack.
Looking forward to it
I totally agree with Kiefer that the format is the real star.. It is a shame that they couldn’t do a Kate Morgan version… Anything by Howard Gordon, I’m in.. I also agree that a 24 episode new show is a non-starter in today’s TV world.. Fox can commit to 12 episodes.. not 24 these days.. So the full real time has to go by the boards….
If the format is the real star then that star left when they changed the format
eh, I wanted it to be BJ Britt
They need bring Chole B. Brilliant C.T.U analyst
another I will not watch
No one wants to watch 24 without Jack! Are you kidding? Jack is 24 and 24 is Jack! I won’t watch if Jack is not back! Count my family out!
HA!!! You don’t speak for everybody. I have no problem giving this show a try so there.
Only 24 is with Jack Bauer and Keifer Sutherland.
No remakes, i don’t think this show will make it without Jack.
He is the show, sorry i won’t watch this without Jack Bauer and Keifer playing him.
If it has no jack its not 24, I wont be watching this pc gone mad reboot.
Noooooooooooooo there is & always will be only one jack, do you lot copy that!!!!!!!arghhhhhh 😠😠😠😠😠
I’ll give Dr. Dre a chance.
I will never give this show a chance.
I will not watch a show that has a black as the lead character.
I don’t care if you call me a racist. I hate black people.
No Clohe either?
I’m not excited about it, just hopeful. But I guess the biggest thing is that we were left hanging with Jack’s departure. And you know, part of the appeal for me (if not most), was the tortured, self-sacrificing soul of Jack. How will this new guy compare?
In my opinion 24 is NOT 24 without Kiefer