24: Exile doesn’t premiere until November 23rd but FOX has already announced the DVD release.  According to TV Shows on DVD, the 24: Exile DVD will be released on November 25th and contain the following special features:

• Commentary track
• Making of featurette
• Featurette on child soldiers
• Season six wrap up
• Season seven preview
• Season seven trailer

Retail price will be $26.98US.

Will you guys buy it right away?

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Fox released cast photo’s of 24: Exile this week in conjunction with the TCA press tour.  To the right is Jack Bauer, rugged, handsome and determined.   Click the thumbnails for full size photo’s of Gil Bellows and Jon Voight.

24: Exile is “set and shot on location in Africa, Bauer and mentor CARL BENTON (Robert Carlyle) battle an international crisis, while here at home the nation prepares for a new president on inauguration day. Taking place just a few months before the new day dawns, U.S. State Department officer FRANK TRAMELL (Gil Bellows) and JONAS HODGES (Jon Voight) are pulling the strings that will set the stage and raise the stakes for Season Seven.”

An unofficial 24: Exile trailer has hit the internet.  Upon first watch you may be asking, why’s it unofficial?  Well, it was leaked by the production company that produced it on their website, it features a temporary narration track, and some pretty awful graphics. Odds are this was shown at this weeks TCA’s, but the official 24: Exile trailer will be shown at Comic Con on July 25th.  No matter what I say, I’m sure all you want is to check it out, so please do:

Despite the awful technical elements, the trailer does provide some insight into 24: Exile.  The movie is obviously based on the real life crisis of child soldiers in Africa.  Jack’s there to help an old friend, played by Robert Carlyle, who is running a school to help rescued child soldiers acclimate back into society.  It actually looks like it has serious potential, I mean in the span of two minutes Jack snaps a man’s neck with his feet and holds a gun up to a child (if only that child were Kim).

He’s no longer saving the government, he’s saving African children.  Madonna be damned.

It was announced yesterday that the title for the 24 season seven prequel to air in November, will be 24: Exile.  Kevin Reilly told reporters at FOX’s Summer Press Tour that the prequel would “act as both a self contained movie, and a precursor to the new season.”  He also added with some typical executive enthusiasm that it was going to “come back rockin’ and rollin, as well as being a really cool piece of business.”

Rumours are circulating that a trailer for 24: Exile will be unveiled at 24’s Comic Con panel on July 25th.

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24 co-executive producer Jon Cassar recently spoke to a South African television show while shooting the season seven prequel in Cape Town. Cassar spoke about the plot of the prequel and more importantly, how he got attacked by a lion. When in Africa….

Check out Cassar’s interview below:

DAMNIT. Korbi Ghosh from Zap2It has just broken my heart by breaking the news that Chloe will not appear in the 24 season 7 prequel at all. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Ghosh also confirmed that Chloe won’t be pregnant when the show returns, but that’s not a shock to anyone who reads this blog, considering Chloe’s son Prescott will be between 3 and 4 when the show comes back in January. And considering most of Chloe’s scenes take place around a computer, it’s not hard to believe that the show will be able to hide Mary Lynn Rajskub’s real life bump entirely.

I really hope this doesn’t continue the trend set in season six with Chloe practically becoming an extra. The writer’s really lost focus of her character and either gave her absolutely nothing to do, or stuck her in the middle of the most absurd love story on Fox. Keep in mind that it’s the network that marries women off to millionaires, and pays uglies to have life altering plastic surgery.

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Shooting began in South Africa on June 4th for 24’s seventh season prequel, but it’s been so top secret, photo’s are just starting to appear online. Check out the following pictures of Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Carlyle filming the show taken this past week. Carlyle will be playing a mentor of Jack’s after he’s fled to South Africa, and ends up getting caught in the middle of an international crisis.

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Season seven officially has its big bad. Up to this point the best candidates for the position were either Tony Almeida (the season 7 trailer made him look evil), and some African dictator responsible for genocide who was trying to make President Taylor his pawn. But of course on 24 nothing is as it seems. Jon Voight has been cast as the man responsible for season seven’s terrorist activities, the real bad guy. We don’t know much about his character, but he will make his first appearance in the prequel slated for November 23rd and then continue on in the seventh season. Voight knows how to play bad, so this shouldn’t be too much of a reach for him.

Does this convince people that Tony being the big bad was just one big fake out? Come on, you had to know that Jack’s heterosexual life partner wouldn’t really end up being evil, their guy love is too powerful for that.

It’s official, 24 has landed in Cape Town, South Africa to film the two hour season seven prequel.  Technical crew have been setting up for a shoot on an unfinished bridge, suspected to be used in a chase scene.

The show is also casting South African locals for bit parts, but the script is apparently so cryptic that those auditioning can’t even tell what the plot is. It’s only a matter of time before lots of location photo’s start leaking!

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A week ago we got news that Robert Carlyle had joined the season seven prequel, playing Jack’s mentor in Africa. Now Gil Bellows, Eric Lively and Tony Todd have been added to the cast.

Bellows (Ally McBeal) will play a state department official in charge of serving Jack with a subpoena, most likely in Africa. Eric Lively (The L Work) will play the President’s son, and Tony Todd (Candyman) will be playing General Juma, the African dictator responsible for genocide in the African nation where Jack fled after the events of season six.

These casting tidbits are slowly starting to reveal the connections between the prequel, and season seven. Bellows’ character will transition Jack back to the United States, Lively’s character will eventually go missing, leading the First Husband (Colm Feore) to try to solve the mystery, and President Juma will go from genocide in Africa, to trying to control President Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones).

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