Variety reports that Twentieth Century Fox has signed a feature deal with the creators and showrunner of 24 to bring the intense series to the silver screen. This is exciting news for 24 fans because it might just mean that we finally get to hear Jack Bauer let out that stream of curses he's been holding in for five very long days.

Of course, since very few summer blockbusters run for twenty-four hours, the big screen version of the show will shun its real-time format, focusing more on Jack than the clock. That's okay because as the article points out, without the ticking clock, Jack can now travel internationally -- kind of like when The Facts of Life went to Paris! (Although, technically, as far as we know, Jack is en route to a very international adventure in China, but that's a whole other story.)

The tentative schedule for the movie is that the writers will have a script in by the winter, and if the screenplay is any good and the ratings are still strong in January, Fox will officially greenlight the movie, shoot it in the spring, and release it that summer as a bridge between season six and season seven. On the downside, the film will not be beholden to too many backstories as the studio will be trying to reach as broad an audience as possible. But on the upside -- did I mention the cursing? Hopefully this project will turn out well. It might be hard to top some of those two hour episodes we saw this season (one featuring the untimely death of Mr. Edgar Stiles comes to mind), but I'm optimistic about this one.

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