Remember rumors of a Die Hard/24 crossover? They gained a bit more credibility today, with actor Justin Long (who co-starred in Live Free or Die Hard) confirming on video that a script for the Die Hard/24 movie was “imminent”.

“For a while, there was talk of, they were going to combine ‘Die Hard’ with ’24,’ ” Long said. “It was going to be Kiefer Sutherland’s character in it [to which we responded with a very suspicious, raised brow]. I’m not kidding!” Long insisted. “I think there was a script that had been imminent,” he said seriously.

Source: MTV.com

Fun little musical tribute to 24 by Jimmy Fallon at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.

YouTube Link: 24 Musical Tribute at Emmys

Well that was fast. The official 24 website has been taken down on August, 24th – precisely three months after the series finale aired on television. There hasn’t even been any kind of “thank you for the support” message to 24 fans, the site was just deleted and all that’s left is a 404 “page not found” error message.

The 24 message boards will remain online up until September 15th after which they will be shut down too. So there’s a little under three weeks to say your goodbyes there.

Here’s a new “Ask Katee” where Katee Sackhoff reveals that she didn’t know Dana Walsh was a mole when taking the role (although she knew Dana was bad). The 24 question is the first one.

Tiffany: Hey Katee, did you know that Dana was going to be the mole from the beginning when you landed the role? If yes, was it hard to not show you were the mole? If no, when did you find out?
Katee Sackhoff: No, I didn’t know that I was the mole, but I knew that I was bad — and I knew I was really bad. I just didn’t know how bad. It’s so weird, every day you go to work and they’re like “so today you’re gonna do this” and you’re like “Ah! I thought it was that” so it was hard for me. I realized that I had to completely commit to everything that I was doing in the moment because that was the only way to sell who she was.

But no, I didn’t know I was the mole. But if I had known, it still would’ve been easy! I’ve gotten so good at lying to fans and family members at this point. It’s like an attribute – lie about what my characters really do. *laughs*

YouTube Link: Katee Sackhoff “Ask Katee” Home Edition Part 5

Anil Kapoor is going great guns. After the international acclaim following Slumdog Millionaire, the evergreen star is making his debut on international television with the final season of American series 24. He describes the action drama as “bigger than the biggest” he has done in India.

“This small screen (24) was bigger than the big screen that I have done in India. It was bigger than the biggest that I’ve ever done,” Anil, who played a game show host in Slumdog Millionaire that fetched him international visibility, said in a telephonic interview from Mumbai.

“For example, the scale of every episode was bigger than any of the films I’ve done in the past. The entire series is worth $125-150 million. I’ve never done such a big show in my career. It was totally very special,” added the 50-year-old.

Based in New York (shot in Los Angeles), the around – $150 million 24 is an action-drama series starring Kiefer Sutherland in the lead as special agent Jack Bauer. The show is presented in the semblance of real time, with each 24-episode season covering 24 hours in the life of Bauer. This is the eighth and final season of the show.

Anil plays Omar Hassan, president of a fictional Islamic Republic of Kamistan (IRK), who visits the US on a peace mission to meet the US president.

“I am definitely the first mainstream star from India to have this kind of job opportunity on television there,” he said. “There is a threat to my life and the story begins from there. I play one of the most pivotal leads of the show. I am there in most of the series.”

The series premieres Monday in India on AXN. This is the first time 24 will be aired here. It will be shown Monday to Thursday.

Anil Kapoor had to juggle a few projects while shooting.

“I was there (LA) for six months. Basically I was coming and going. I was also shooting a film No Problem in India and South Africa. So in between I shot two schedules of the film too,” he said.

“The experience has been very enriching and educative – something which I’ve never had. It was wonderful and creatively very uplifting. It has given me tremendous exposure. Never in my 30-year career have I got this kind of appreciation.

“It was almost as if I was some kind of ambassador from India and had made a difference to their lives. I was so overwhelmed. I think it went beyond professional respect,” he said.

Source: NDTVMovies.com

From a blurb on Kim Raver’s new Lifetime television movie Bond of Silence in USA Today, she was asked about a possible return of Audrey Raines in the upcoming 24 movie:

Would Raver appear in the projected 24 movie if asked? “Never say never on 24,” she says. “Audrey’s not dead. She’s just in bed somewhere.”

Source: USA Today

Congratulations to Sean Callery who has won the 2010 Emmy for Best Musical Score in a Drama Series for the 24 series finale! This is Callery’s third Emmy win, the other two being Day 2: 10:00pm-11:00pm (George Mason’s farewell) and Day 5: 6:00am-7:00am (the Season 5 finale). Callery has been nominated for every season of the show and 24: Redemption. How about releasing another 24 soundtrack now, FOX?

24 nabbed another Emmy win for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series for Day 8 4:00 AM – 5:00 AM (episode 13). The following people share the credit:
William D. Dotson, Supervising Sound Editor
Catherine M. Speakman, Supervising ADR/DX Editor
Pembrooke Andrews, Sound Editor
Jeffrey Whitcher, Sound Editor
Shawn Kennelly, Sound Editor
Daryl Fontenault, Sound Editor
Melissa Kennelly, Sound Editor
Jeffrey Charbonneau, Music Editor
Laura Macias, Foley Artist
Vincent Nicastro, Foley Artist

Much like Callery, the sound editing team are also repeat winners at the Emmys having previously won for Day 3: 12:00am-1:00am, Day 6: 10:00pm-11:00pm, and 24: Redemption. They were also nominated for Day 5: 9:00pm-10:00pm and Day 7: 10:00pm-11:00pm.

As for the other three nominations this year? Gregory Itzin lost out to Dexter‘s John Lithgow for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series, best stunt coordination went to ABC’s short-lived FlashForward, and best sound mixing went to FOX’s Glee.

The series has racked up an impressive 68 Emmy nominations during its run with 21 wins. As former 24 director Jon Cassar noted on his Twitter, the series has won at least one Emmy for every season it was on air.

A new scene is being filmed for the 24 Season 8 DVD today featuring Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), her husband Morris O’Brian (Carlo Rota), and their young son Prescott O’Brian (played by showrunner Howard Gordon’s son in 24 Season 7). This was something that was just locked down within the last few days – as of August 9th it was still up in the air.

No word on what the scene entails – it could be some kind of epilogue of sorts, a tie-in to the 24 movie, or more likely just a short scene for fans of the series. Hope to have more information soon!

In honor of Friday the 13th, Fancast has composed a list of televisions unluckiest characters. Jack’s wife and 24 Season 1 character Teri Bauer gets a spot on the list:

Teri Bauer, ‘24′: One of TV’s saddest and most unexpected death scenes was preceded by 23 hours and 50-ish minutes of wrong turns, displaced trust (whoa, Richard Burgi isn’t the girl’s father?!) and even a blink-and-you-missed-it, dramatically convenient bout of amnesia. Sure, Teri’s batch of bad luck was compressed into that very first day of ‘24,’ but man, was a character’s fate ever sealed.

Source: Fancast

There’s no denying that Teri was an unlucky gal, but where is Jack Bauer on this list? All of his love interests have ended badly, usually resulting in death. His best friends turn out evil, heck, even his brother and father were evil. He’s had a heart attack, got addicted to heroin, was forced to fake his death and go into hiding, his friends were killed just to frame him, he gets captured and tortured for two years in a Chinese prison…

He goes to Africa to get away and trouble follows him there too (24: Redemption). In Day 7 he gets exposed to the pathogen and spends much of the day slowly deteriorating. After Renee got killed by a sniper and Bauer avenged her death, he’s now a fugitive on the run and has to flee the country.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure there is no contest here.

Here’s an awesome Jack Bauer fan video made by Dylvisions24. Thanks to virginie24jb for the heads up.

YouTube Link: Jack Bauer – The Tragic Hero fan video by Dylvisions24

Huge congrats to Annie!

The 24 actress, 33, gave birth to her first child with husband Stephen Full Sunday at 4:46 PM in Los Angeles.

Baby Freddie (middle name: Wersching) Full, who weighs 7 lbs., 15 oz., and is 18 inches long, is quite the stunner and shares mom’s hair. “He has a full head of hair and is very calm and sweet and adorable,” Wersching tells PEOPLE exclusively. “We are all feeling great!”

“Coming from 24, it was a much-needed change that just felt right,” Cuthbert said. Nonetheless, she said she would be more than willing to appear in the upcoming 24 movie.

“Absolutely, I would be lying if I said otherwise,” Cuthbert said.

“They actually haven’t called me on it. The thing is, I have a lot of trust in Kiefer (Sutherland) and the producers and Howard Gordon, all these guys, that if they need me and I’m going to be a good fit – and not just put me in there because they have to – I trust their judgment and will be there on the day that they need me. Unless I’m shooting Happy Endings, of course.”

Source: Toronto Sun

Were you working on it while you were finishing up ’24′ or was this something that came after?
Yeah, I was working on it a lot and all of a sudden I’m just thinking I’d like to take a vacation. I wanted to transition off ’24′ but I didn’t want to jump on another show, I wanted it to be the right thing, and it’s hard to know what that is. But for me, I’ve always performed so it was an easy choice for me to jump right into that.

How tough was that to do when you have to do the normal stuff you do for ’24,’ learning lines, getting it shot, was there enough time?
Oh, it was intense, I mean definitely the live show went on hold sometimes, so we did it when we could. But working on the show towards the end of ’24,’ it was a really emotional time.

Because you didn’t know whether that would be the last time around for the series at that point?
Well we kind of knew, we all suspected it throughout the year, but we weren’t told until really late in the game. And creatively, it’s sad. The hardest part for me was leaving all the people. It’s scary too because that was an amazing job and one of the hugest milestones in my life.

Have you heard anything about the ’24′ movie, is it in the works?
I keep telling people that if they hear anything about it to let me know, because I’ve heard nothing.

Are you hoping that Chloe is part of the movie, if there is one?
Of course. I would be really sad if I went to go see the ’24′ movie and Chloe wasn’t in there.

Yeah, I guess that’s an obvious answer to that.
Yeah it would be a bummer (laughs).

When ’24′ started, the role of Chloe was a pretty small one at the time, what were your expectations of the role going into it? Did you ever see it expanding into what it expanded into by the time the show was over?
Absolutely not. I think as an actor, you go out for everything and anything and at that time I hadn’t had, barely any, drama auditions, my thing was always comedy. I hung out with comedians, I auditioned for sitcoms, and so to even have the audition was unusual for me.

The best thing about it was that Joel Surnow, the creator, had seen me in a Paul Thomas Anderson movie and liked me in that. He has one of my favorite ways to cast his show and have a vision, that he has a strong enough idea, of “I like that quality about you and I’m going to write a part for you.” And I didn’t even think it would happen but I thought, “What an amazing experience. I’m not going to necessarily count on this happening knowing the format of the show.”

And then when I first started, I thought it was going to be four shows, then six shows, I thought it was going to be over after five or six shows. Once they started writing me being loyal towards Jack and helping him, it got really interesting at that point and really fun, and then the rest is history. It’s been my second home, and a really great experience and character, what an amazing show to be a part of.

What was it about the role of Chloe that led the writers to make her that big of an ally to Jack? And did they use any of your personality and insert it into Chloe?
Absolutely, I think it was a 50-50 collaboration. I would come in wondering what they were going to write for me and they were good at writing things that they knew I could pull off. And I became this person that could get away with this odd behavior, this odd aggressive behavior and I think it was just an organic… what’s the word… when you go from these heart-thumping sequence to get a little break sometimes.

That’s not to say that I didn’t have some very dramatic moments, the whole show was very intense. Our acting job would be to start at intense and work in those levels of intensity but I had a really good time in that world, kind of still being that girl at the office who’s sort of blunt and annoying but who also happens to be a computer genius who’s maybe stopping a nuclear bomb, so all these factors kind of fed into this behavior that was really fun to play.

Was there anything that you wanted Chloe to do that you didn’t get to do?
I think to me, the ending was kind of bittersweet. I’m certainly so grateful that we got the run that we got, but towards the end the thing that was bittersweet was that my character really started evolving and I’m glad that that didn’t happen to me sooner, because I think she would always remain that annoying Chloe person, or however you want to put it, but the fact that towards the end I got all that responsibility after everybody already very familiar with my character, which was really exciting. I would’ve liked to have seen that go on a little bit longer.

And her loyalty to Jack was kind of in question through a lot of the finale.
And that was exciting. And that was the only point where in all the time that I was in the show where I really had a talk with Howard Gordon, we sat down and just discussed making sure that transition was believable because I think the head of CTU gets a lot of exposition lines and that automatically, all these pieces have to go into a show like ’24′ in order to make sense and I wanted to make sure it made sense for the character to be doing that because that was such a weird position for her to be in and I wanted to make sure it had a chance to play out properly. Because some of that character stuff sometimes goes by the wayside because of the plot.

If the writers approached you and said we’d like to spin-off Chloe into her own show, you would accept?
I’m more interested in doing a different character, that’s the type of actor I am. I definitely have the factor that… a quality that I”m going to bring to all my characters and I think that there’s a whole world to be explored within that.

And for me that’s going to be comedy, and as far as anything Chloe-like, it would have to be, that’s obviously… it would have to be the right team and the right show, I wouldn’t do it to spin-off that character, it would have to be a really special circumstance with people that I knew and trusted with a really groundbreaking interesting idea, like a show like ’24′ which comes along once in a blue moon

Read the full interview at TV Squad which talks more about being a parent and her stage show “‘Mary Lynn Spreads Her Legs” which runs through August at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles.

Remember last year when 24 had a panel at Comic-Con? Those were the good ol’ days. Anyway, here’s video of the Comic-Con panel Q&A session for NBC’s new TV series The Event which is getting a lot of buzz. 24 fans should keep an eye out on this show which seems to have a very similar vibe (and the same time slot – Mondays at 9PM starting on September 20th).

24 veteran Evan Katz (writer seasons 2-8) is the showrunner of The Event and several familiar faces appear in the first episode including Željko Ivanek (who played Andre Drazen on 24) and Tony Todd (General Juma). Here’s the brief Q&A which has one or two references to the show (Jason Ritter is called the new Jack Bauer, etc).

Video Link: The Event Panel Comic-Con 2010

Kiefer Sutherland has won E! Online’s “Star You’ll Miss the Most” award by an absolute landslide, gathering nearly 40% of the vote.

STAR YOU’LL MISS THE MOST

Winner: Kiefer Sutherland (39.7%)
Terry O’Quinn (15.3%)
Jonathan Groff (14.8%)
America Ferrera (12.0%)
Simon Cowell (10.9%)
Zachary Quinto (7.2%)

Source: Tater Top Awards 2010 Winners