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The film - setting the scene for season seven - will see Jack Bauer handling a crisis in Africa while the US is inaugurating a new president. The Scottish Full Monty actor will fight alongside Bauer as character Benton.
Three other 24 castings were also announced this week by Fox.
Tony Todd, who plays the CIA director in Chuck, will take the role of cruel African dictator General Juma. He will also appear in season seven, starting in January.
Also cast to the prequel film, scheduled to air on November 23 in the US, is Eric Lively (The L Word) as the new president's son.
Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal) will play a State Department officer charged with summoning Bauer to appear before the Senate.
> Fox reveals '24' movie details
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