Fox Orders Pilot For 24: Legacy With New Hero To Replace Jack Bauer

Fox Orders Pilot For 24: Legacy With New Hero To Replace Jack Bauer
Fox is pushing forward with a soft reboot of its real-time action series "24," which plans to adopt the same structure and style of the earlier show but with a brand new cast. Details were announced by the network at the Television Critics Association press tour, where Fox brass confirmed that series stalwart Kiefer Sutherland will not be a part of the cast. That may come as a surprise considering the 2014 event series "24: Live Another Day" scored rave reviews.

24: Legacy will instead “revolve around a military hero’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.”

The hero is a twenty-something named Eric Carter, who is described in the pilot script as an African American, but according to Deadline
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