We’ve been talking about the possibility of a movie version of the popular TV series ‘24’ for quite a while now. Last we heard in January, Kiefer Sutherland was promising that they’d get to it… eventually, probably during one of the show’s between-season hiatus’s. But the latest on a possible movie version of the show is that doing it during a hiatus may now be out. Celeb news syndicator WENN is reporting that there won’t be a 24 movie until the show has finished its television run.

They spoke with ‘24’ executive producer Evan Katz who told them, “The script has been written but it's on hold until the show comes off air.” So they already have the thing ready to go, they’re just not in any hurry to shoot it.

What’s odd is that they plan on using a script several years down the road for a television show that’s still in motion. ‘24’ is already notorious for killing characters off and changing paths. A script that’s relevant now will almost certainly be out of date and useless by the time the show ends. The way to get around that I guess, is to set the script in a time period between already finished seasons of the show, but doing that sounds like a good way to really disappoint your fans when the movie does happen.

Besides, waiting till after the show is over is a pretty bad time for a film. The time to make a movie is while the TV series is still hot and relevant. The longer they wait, the less that’s true. I’m starting to think this is a movie that’s simply never going to happen at all, and anything we hear to the contrary is likely just hot air.