KIEFER SUTHERLAND - SUTHERLAND: '24 MOVIE IS YEARS AWAY'

KIEFER SUTHERLAND fears fans of his TV series 24 will have to wait several years for a big screen adaptation of the hit show.
The actor admits a movie version of the Emmy-winning series won't get the green light until the TV show has been wrapped up.
He says, "It is hard enough to write the show. So we all agreed that for the writers and their sanity, we wouldn't approach doing a film without them, so we would wait until the show is finished. And then we would do a film. I think it's a couple of years off."
Sutherland will next appear in a two-hour stand-alone prequel of 24 called Exile, which will air in the U.S. in November (08) before the new seventh series of the show hits TV screens in January (09).
And the star admits the project made the show's writers keen to explore the possibility of a film.
He adds, "It was really exciting doing the prequel. I think (the writers) got a taste of how nice it would be to write a two hour piece that actually had an ending instead of having to write a 24 hour piece that doesn't have an ending. They might have seen the light. So you never know, maybe a film will be sooner."