Attention 24 fans, Jack Bauer might be back. Someday... maybe, possibly.

Fox is said to be developing a spinoff that will revolve around a younger cast, and original series star Kiefer Sutherland tells Postmedia Network that he’s open to coming back.

At the conclusion of 24: Live Another Day (Season 9), Bauer had been captured by the baddies; his fate left to viewers’ imagination.

“It didn’t have the conclusiveness that I think on some level we promised when we announced another season,” Sutherland tells Postmedia Network. “(But) it’s a character I really love playing, so the idea that there may be another opportunity to play him again someday is always kind of comforting to me.”

Sutherland hints that he wanted Bauer to die at the end of Season 9.

“It was left open for a variety of reasons, and there certainly was discussion about really closing it off and potentially killing him,” he says. “But ... they always wanted to reserve the right to bring Bauer back... Now there’s talk that they will reboot the show and recast other parts.”

A feature film – with director Antoine Fuqua – was rumoured, but never came to fruition.

“That one still surprises me because it was such a success worldwide that it didn’t make sense why we didn’t make the movie,” he says. “There were a variety of reasons and whatever they were, I just think as time goes on it becomes less and less interesting for an audience and less interesting for the people that would make it.”

Sutherland is in Toronto for the world premiere of Forsaken, a throwback Western co-starring his father Donald and Kiefer’s A Few Good Men co-star Demi Moore.

“The first film I ever had here at the festival was a movie called The Bay Boy, the next was Phone Booth and now this. There are really no words ... it’s exactly what I wanted; to be able to come back to Canada, to be able to do a film with my father and to be able to have it open at the Toronto film festival.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am for that. I was going to say, ‘I’m nervous,’ but I won’t. I’m excited for it.”

Forsaken screens tonight at Roy Thomson Hall and Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Elgin (VISA Screening Room).

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