Most of us know Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer, the ass kicking CTU agent who has a love for the word Damnit. According to Sutherland, who chatted with
On The Box, we could have known him by another character he was asked to play......Robin.
"I’d just finished Stand By Me and Young Guns about the time that Warner Brothers were making the first Batman film with Michael Keaton and I got a call which asked me if I would be interested in playing Robin. I was like: ‘as in Robin with tights? No!’", he explained. He went on to say that he didn't know that they were going to make the coolest movie ever, and that they didn't use a Robin in the film but his agent probably could have helped him out.
One thing that has been going on for a long time that seems to finally be getting done is the creation of the 24 movie. Sutherland is set to reprise his role as Jack Bauer in the film that is rumored to be shooting this May even though it doesn't have a director. He said doing a 24 movie was the last thing on his mind but felt like he owed it to Peter Chernin(Chairman of 20th Century Fox when 24 started) to read the script.
"At page 32 I was like ‘shit!’. I hoped that maybe it would get worse as I went on, but unfortunately it just got better." Sutherland then went on to say that 24 has taught him to work on opportunities schedule citing missing out on Tim Burton's
Batman and
My Private Idaho as examples of him doing something like a vacation instead of taking a good movie role.
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