The Prisoner- Remake- AMC

[LiddyRules]

They've been trying to do this for awhile and I guess it's good to go but they're remaking the series The Prisoner for AMC. Jim Caviezel is Number 6; Ian McKellan is Number 2 (which already disappoints me since I like how there were different number 2s every episode).

If you haven't seen the original Prisoner, you should. One of the best, weirdest, most complex and thematic shows ever. A show that was so blatantly odd and 60s yet hyponotic and mysterious with no qualms about it. It didn't try to be cool, it just was. I can't really explain why I loved it so much or why it worked so well but it did.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sv813f2Xtrg

Or you might know parts of it from the hilarious Simpsons parody (The Computer wore Menace Shoes aka Homer is Mr. X).

Why did you think a balloon would stop him?
Shut up, that's why!

[Stormrider666]

I loved the original Prisoner and I guess I shouldn't be suprised that its being remade. I share in your disappointment Liddy, about the one #2. The different #2s' added to mystery of the story. However if there is a slimmer of hope for this remake, it is cable network doing it and not a broadcast one.

[Arc Lite]

OT sort of. Didn't realize until IMDB just now that the #6 dude from the original Prisoner was Longshanks in Braveheart.

[Minhaj]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan#The_Prisoner
The Prisoner

Universal Pictures has signed a deal for Christopher Nolan to direct a feature version of TV series classic The Prisoner. The series ran for 17 episodes in 1967. Patrick McGoohan played a government agent who resigns, is kidnapped and placed on an isolated island known as "The Village". He's given a new identity -- Number Six -- and interacts with an island staff trying to get him to reveal why he resigned. The screenplay adaptation comes from David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples, the husband and wife writing team who last collaborated to make Twelve Monkeys. The film will take place in modern day. Production is set to begin after work is completed on The Dark Knight, with the studio currently hoping for a release date in the summer or fall of 2009.