Prisoner Remake Casting Rumors
Possible details have surfaced regarding a miniseries remake of the cult British series The Prisoner for both AMC in the US and ITV in the UK. Sir Ian McKellen may be playing the sinister Number Two, and Jim Caviezel (Jesus in Passion of the Christ) has been linked to the main character Number Six, also said to possibly be the title of the miniseries itself.
That's a lot of maybes, I know...but then, The Prisoner was never exactly known for its unambiguity. For those unfamiliar, it was a little like Lost except considerably less successful and with a white balloon thing instead of a smoke monster.
Sir Ian McKellen To Play The New Number Two In THE PRISONER Remake Miniseries?? [Ain't It Cool News]
Will O'Wisp
Posted to TV on 11 June 2008
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um, i think you might mean "a little like lost except considerably better scripted, better acted, and way more revolutionary." also, we know what the rover sphere (the white balloon) was and why it existed - we're still unclear as to the smoke monster's purpose/function, even on a formal level (do you remember how we didn't see the thing for, like, a season and a half? yeah).
i kid, i kid! i know you wouldn't be posting this if you had no idea what the prisoner was, and to know the prisoner is to love the prisoner. i'm very protective of it, given that i think it's among the three best things television has ever produced. ever. as such, i say "boo" to jim caviezel, and "hmm" to sir ian. "hmm" because the number two designation changed hands a lot, with only a few actors portraying the role for more than one episode. miniseries, i guess, so that makes a certain amount of sense.
let's not also forget how much contemporary SF owes to the prisoner - everything from Babylon 5 to Battlestar Galactica (why do you think Ron Moore named her "Number Six"?)
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