“I Am Not A Number, I Am A Free Man!”
James@BDO has mentioned that there is talk of a remake of the cult 60s classic The Prisoner. Quoting from his post he says, “The Prisoner was half genius, half utter rubbish and (more importantly) a product of it’s time.”
This observation is spot on - it was a product of its time. Nowerdays, similar concepts have been done to death. LOST is probably a similar example - people put in situations which are just plain weird, evoking paranoia and rebellious actions against the unknown. Cube and Cube Zero are other examples (Cube 2 was substandard, so I never include that in a list of Cube movies). Unless something unique is injected into this adaptation, I can see it just being the same old same old (with shed loads of CGI probably).
I also believe that when casting, they should look for unknown (British) actors, primarily because the idea of The Prisoner relates to everyday Joe Bloggs folk and it was based upon a British Secret Service agent. Oh no, I forgot: They’ll probably cast Tom Cruise, set it in America and computer FX it upto the hilt - and call him Number 7 instead.
Christopher Nolan is set to direct it, which is the only positive side. But I can’t help thinking it’s a bad idea to even contemplate doing a movie.
Times have changed, the viewing public’s expectations have changed, we’ve moved on.
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August 29th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
I was introduced to The Prisoner at a fairly young age, and I, personally, have no faith whatsoever in contemporary production companies, directors, or actors to honor the original brillance and intent of this film in a remake. Primarily, a movie remake different that the original series would undoubtedly be inferior, because it would necessarily try to add, as you say, special effects and other baggage that would detract from, if not destroy, the original story.
That’s sad, isn’t it?
I pray, hope and pray, that a remake is not made. If God ignores me on this point, I at least hope someone respectable (NOT Tom Cruise) is chosen as 6.
Haha…7.
January 6th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Some things should not be tampered with.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hi there,
Come to the convention!
You’ll be relieved to hear that the remake has been called off. Again
Come to the convention instead, where we celebrate the original! http://www.portmeiricon.com/