{"id":116287,"date":"2025-11-03T21:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116287\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:35:04","slug":"kiefer-sutherland-stars-as-a-washed-up-actor-in-tinsel-town-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116287\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland Stars as a Washed-Up Actor in Tinsel Town Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiefer Sutherland, the Emmy-winning star of shows like 24<\/a>, Designated Survivor, and The Fugitive, is taking on a new role for his newest feature film. Sutherland is set to star alongside Rebel Wilson in a new holiday movie that just dropped its first trailer.<\/p>\n

Tinsel Town, from Brainstorm Media, stars Sutherland as a washed-up actor who takes on a new job in England. The movie is set to be released in theaters and On Demand on Nov. 28. A synopsis of Tinsel Town reads: \u201cA washed-up Hollywood action star takes a role in a small English village’s Christmas pageant. With the help of the straight-talking choreographer and quirky cast, he embraces the holiday spirit to reconnect with his estranged daughter.\u201d The trailer can be seen below.<\/p>\n

In the trailer for Tinsel Town, Sutherland is seen asking, \u201cWhat\u2019s next\u201d as far as his career goes, to which he receives the reply, \u201cPeople don\u2019t want to hire you.\u201d However, there\u2019s one place that is willing to take on the former action star, a theater in England. Sutherland\u2019s character, Bradley Mack, makes his way to England in time for the holidays and to star in the play, where he meets Rebel Wilson\u2019s character. \u201cWe\u2019ve only got a few days to get this show on the road,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Appalled by what he sees at the theater, Sutherland\u2019s Bradley Mack exclaims, \u201cWhat is this? A low-rent production of Cats?\u201d Used to his Hollywood lifestyle, Bradley asks someone to \u201ccall me a car,\u201d to which one of his new colleagues replies, \u201cYou\u2019re a car.\u201d It also turns out that Bradley\u2019s ex-wife and daughter also live in England, and for the first time in two years, he reconnects with his young child.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you care about is yourself,\u201d his daughter says in the trailer. \u201cWhat?\u201d replies Bradley. \u201cYou keep trying to run away,\u201d she says. At the end of the clip, Sutherland\u2019s character is heard telling his daughter, \u201cThis is the best time I\u2019ve ever had and it\u2019s \u2018cause of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tinsel Town also stars Derek Jacobi (The War Master), Mawaan Rizwan (Sex Education), Maria Friedman (East Enders), Jason Manford (Waterloo Road), Asim Chaudhry (The Sandman), Danny Dyer (Rivals), Ray Fearon (Beauty and the Beast), Lucien Laviscount (Emily in Paris), and James Lance (Ted Lasso<\/a>). Chris Foggin directed Tinsel Town, which isn\u2019t his first foray into the holiday movie genre. He also directed 2022\u2019s This Is Christmas, which aired on Sky and is streaming on Prime Video. Tinsel Town was written by Frazer Flintham, Adam Brown, Piers Ashworth, and Jake Brunger and produced by Matt Williams, Pascal Degove, and Ava Aashna Chopra.<\/p>\n

Could There Be Another Season of 24?<\/p>\n

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As for the future of one of Sutherland\u2019s most notable shows, 24, the actor said it\u2019s not off the table to come back to the role of Jack Bauer.<\/a> In a September 2025 interview, Sutherland told Montreal Now with Aaron Rand that 24 executive producer Howard Gordon has come up with an idea for a new season of the popular series. \u201cHoward Gordon has come up with an idea that I like. Before, the material had not been written, so I would have to say, \u2018I\u2019m not the one that\u2019s in the way.\u2019 [But] something has been written,” the actor revealed, adding, \u201cI think it\u2019s really good. I think it\u2019s really strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Sutherland stressed that another installment of 24 was still a long way from coming to fruition. “24 was originally with Fox. Now it\u2019s owned by Disney because of what Fox has sold off, and so it has to go through different channels before it\u2019s either approved or disapproved,” Sutherland said. “Like everybody else, it\u2019s something I would really like to do. I would like to close that story. It was left kind of wide open. So, fingers crossed. There\u2019s a chance. We\u2019ve taken some considerable steps forward,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Tinsel Town hits theaters and PVOD on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland, the Emmy-winning star of shows like 24, Designated Survivor, and The Fugitive, is taking on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-116287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}