AMC to remake "The Prisoner"

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

In my view if there's no Portmeirion it's just not "The Prisoner".

It's like rebooting James Bond as the adventures of a tea lady at Pinewood Studios.

OO7 Janis Brooke Bond, Licensed To Brew Up.

She took a crash course in digestive biscuits.
Cucumber sandwiches were her special operations.
Her chip butties were to live and let fry for.
One lump or two, she's the one with the tongs of steel.
Her mission was on Her Majesty's Silver Service.

[frulad]

Hey thanks for the info. Some friends and I were wondering what happened to this project just this past Saturday night while having a drink after NY Comic Con.

[SmileOfTheShadow]

Today's B7 news prompted me to update the thread on this long-running saga as well ..... according to the Portmeirion Hotel's official website, the latest remake attempt is now a "definite go" for late summer 2008

THE PRISONER REMAKE FOR ITV - IT'S OFFICIAL

The Sky / AMC remake fell through in late 2007 (link), after which ITV (ack!) seem to have moved to the rescue. The seemingly endless attempts to remake the series were the subject of an Independent article last year, and Six-of-One have a page listing the last couple of years worth of attempts here.

Be seeing you .....

Hmm...I don't know if this is good or not.

[Belbo]

ITV remake now officially a go

Today's B7 news prompted me to update the thread on this long-running saga as well ..... according to the Portmeirion Hotel's official website, the latest remake attempt is now a "definite go" for late summer 2008

THE PRISONER REMAKE FOR ITV - IT'S OFFICIAL

The Sky / AMC remake fell through in late 2007 (link), after which ITV (ack!) seem to have moved to the rescue. The seemingly endless attempts to remake the series were the subject of an Independent article last year, and Six-of-One have a page listing the last couple of years worth of attempts here.

Be seeing you .....

[Karachi Vyce]

Don't feel bad, I thought it was a female too.

Perhaps because "Lunan" subconsciously reads like "Luanne".

[AmyG]

Sorry, my bad. I thought I'd read something in one of your earliest posts that seemed to imply the feminine gender... Not that there's anything wrong with that!

[frulad]

AWK-ward. .

[Lunan]

I'll have what she's having.

that would be HE dear not she

[AmyG]

I'll have what she's having.

[Lunan]

Hey, it's the mind-altering drugs in the shampoo.

that explains the green phoenix and flying pink bunnies

[AmyG]

Hey, it's the mind-altering drugs in the shampoo.

[Joseph DeMartino]

Thanks, Joe. Guilty as charged (of believing a rogue comment taken out of context).

Well, you were distracted by that whole hair model thing.

Joe

[AmyG]

Thanks, Joe. Guilty as charged (of believing a rogue comment taken out of context).

[frulad]

Wow, just like the TV and film versions of The POseidon Adventure we go this year!




(we need a barfing smilie....)

[Joseph DeMartino]

In fact, I just heard that they're going to give the prisoner amnesia (!!!) in this remake. Which just removes all ambiguity whatsoever. I think this is a huge mistake.

As I mentioned on the mod, this would actually remove all logic and mean they could never get out of the first act, since there isn't much point in asking a man who doesn't remember who he is, or what he did for a living, why he quit the job he can't recall having held in the first place. (In fact, if the kidnapping procedure caused amnesia, there'd be no reason to have "The Village", since all the secrets would be safe. )

Luckily, that isn't what they have planned:

"New series will revolve around a man who awakes in the Village with no memory of how he arrived. Episodes will follow how he tries to make sense of his new environment, in which inhabitants are under constant surveillance, identified by number and sans any recollection of how they got to the island." -- From Daily Variety Monday 18 Dec 2006. (Emphasis added - jd)

In short, exactly the same situation as in the original. The character is gassed in London and wakes up in The Village without any memory of how he got there.

As noted, AMC isn't the only one in the Prisoner remake business. From the same article:

"AMC's is the second adaptation in the works. Universal Pictures has set helmer Christopher Nolan to direct a feature version that Janet and David Peoples are scripting (Daily Variety, Aug. 11).

U has the film rights to the skein, while Granada has separate television rights. Like the planned skein, bigscreen pic is said to be a contemporized take on the 1967 thriller."

Regards,

Joe