Will the first season of “24: Legacy” take place on the day of the California Presidential Primary?
Jimmy Smits plays U.S. Senator John Donovan, who happens to be married to a former head of CTU, the counter-terrorism agency that once employed Jack Bauer.
Miranda Otto, who played the CIA’s crafty Berlin station chief Allison Carr on “Homeland” last year, will play that former CTU chief.
(Longtime fans remember that the first season of the original “24” focused quite a bit on U.S. Senator David Palmer and his wife.)
On “The West Wing” Smits played a U.S. congressmen who was elected to replace Martin Sheen’s character as president of the United States.
Teddy Sears, currently starring as Earth-2 Flash Jay Garrick over on The CW, has been cast as the current head of CTU. Word is the Otto character wants the Sears character’s job back.
Corey Hawkins (“The Walking Dead,” “Straight Outta Compton”) will play the male lead in “24: Legacy,” like Jack Bauer a war hero who finds himself working with CTU agents.
Longtime “24” showrunner Howard Gordon oversees both “Homeland” and “24: Legacy."
Stephen Hopkins, who helmed the original “24” pilot way back in 2001, has been hired to direct the 2016 "24: Legacy" pilot from a teleplay by "24" and "24: Live Another Day" vets Evan Katz and Manny Coto.
Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer character, last seen being hauled off to Russian gulag in 2014’s “24: Live Another Day” miniseries, is not expected to be a component of “24: Legacy” should it go to series.
