Academy Award winning actor and father of Angelina Jolie, 69-year old Jon Voight will play the villain in the next season of 24.
He has signed on to co-star in next season’s 24 on Fox.
Fox made the announcement on Friday that Voight will join the cast, as the main villain against Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer.
Voight’s character will be behind a major terrorist threat.
He will be introduced in a two-hour prequel set to air on November 23rd.
The prequel will set the stage for the show’s 7th season, which will debut in January 2009.
The prequel was shot in South Africa.
It will revolve around a newly elected female President, Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones.)