Kiefer Sutherland told KROQ’s Kevin and Bean that the big-screen adaptation of the hit television show 24 will begin filming in May. Sutherland also said that the film’s script has already been completed.

The film will be shot in London, as well as Prague and Morocco, and will abandon the real-time format of its television counterpart.

Season six of the television show will begin on Sunday, Jan. 14, and on Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 with a two-night, four-hour season premiere.

Sutherland plays the role of Jack Bauer, a federal agent who tries to prevent one or more domestic terrorist attacks over a 24 hour period.

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Chris Lee, former head of Columbia/Tristar Pictures and executive producer of Superman Returns has confirmed that a sequel to the movie will hit theaters in 2009. Director Bryan Singer and producer Jon Peters are in Honolulu this week to celebrate Lee’s birthday, and to begin planning the next Superman movie, which will likely begin production mid-to late next year in as as yet undecided location.

Singer revealed that he has also turned down an offer to direct X-Men 4 but would however be interested in reading the script for the X-Men spinoff movie Wolverine.

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Variety reports that Hugh Jackman is set to star in an adaptation of the Robert Littell spy novel The Amateur. Jackman’s own Seed Productions has made a deal with Fox 2000 to fund the film with 24 executive producer Evan Katz to pen the script. Jackman will produce with partner John Palermo with the long term goal of creating a new spy franchise in the vein of James Bond or Jason Bourne.

Robert Littell is an American author and former Soviet affairs journalist for Newsweek whose work often concerns the CIA. The plot of the book involves a CIA cryptographer whose fiancee is killed in a suspicious plane crash. When he discovers that the plane was brought down by terrorists, he finds the leverage that forces his bosses to train him to exact revenge. The book was first adapted for the big screen in 1981 in a version starring John Savage and Christopher Plummer.

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Fox has been very tight-lipped so far about the voice-casting for the computer-generated dragon Saphira in the upcoming fantasy film Eragon. The only known information regarding candidates was that Fox was on the lookout for a female voice (obviously) with a British accent. It has also been confirmed for some time that the dragon’s voice in the EA video game would not be identical to the film voice, since the studio was still trying to cast their ideal voice even after the video game was completed.

Eragon fansite Shurtugal now has reason to believe that none other than Oscar winning actress Rachel Weisz may be lending her voice, and the evidence supporting this claim is strong: while there has been no official communication from Fox (yet?), a new Eragon film poster released released this week clearly features Rachel Weisz’s name in the credits. This could of course simply mean the actress will feature in a cameo appearance, but what makes this very unlikely is the fact that the filming process has been long finished. The only role an actress would play in post-production, we feel safe in saying, is doing voice-work.

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