'24: Live Another Day' Plot: Jack Is Back! Producer Teases 'He Is Hunted Then And He Is Still Hunted When The Show Begins'

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When you think about "24: Live another day" plot, just think of one thing. Jack is back!

Though Kiefer Sutherland and 24's executive producers Howard Gordon and Evan Katz originally intended to bring Jack Bauer back in a movie, fans were disappointed when 20th Century Fox announced that they would not be moving forward.

Fortunately Fox is set to bring 24 back as a 12-episode miniseries, titled "24: Live Another Day", later this spring.

When asked if the plot for the 12-episode miniseries is similar to the original idea for the film, Sutherland revealed, "The script for the film was very, very different. The film's an ongoing situation. There's always an opportunity to do that, but Howard came up with an idea of a 12-episode run of this and it was an opportunity that presented itself to us first. It was a fantastic idea...if this ends up rebooting the show or causing a film to be made, so be it."

So what is our Jack up to when 24: Live Another Day begins? "If you remember at the end of season eight, Jack was left fugitive and we'll pick p four years later and he's still a fugitive," Manny Coto teased. "He is hunted and he is still hunted when the show begins."

And who is this hunter? Yvonne Strahovski! She will be playing a London-based CIA agent that "has been on the hunt for Jack Bauer and the show will open with that dynamic," Manny Coto said. "When Jack returns into the story on his own terms, we'll learn he has a mission."

According to E!, Mary Lynn Rajskub, who is set to return to the series as Chloe, but don't expect to see a warm reunion between the two. "They're actually pitted against each other...that is a dynamic that Mary Lynn and I get to play that's very exciting. It's always something that's going to evolve over the course of the show," Sutherland teased.

Gordon added, "We found a place emotionally and physically to locate Jack, and the same for Chloe," whom the producer described as "someone who is quite damaged and has now joined the Free Information movement."

"24: Live Another Day" will premiere this May on Fox.

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