"24" will be airing a two hour prequel to launch their upcoming Seventh season and will be doing so with a few fresh faces added to the mix. Eric Lively, Tony Todd and Gil Bellows have signed on to star in the special, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The special will feature Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) battling an international crisis in Africa while the U.S. ushers in a new president on Inauguration Day.
Lively will play the president's son, Bellows will play a State Department officer, and Todd will play cruel African dictator Gen. Juma.