"I'm not a number i'm a free man"

It will be the equivalent to the 90's "improvement" of Cheeselets.
Do artists do a 2008 version of the Mona Lisa?
Mind you there are those that think the New Battlestar Galactica was better than the original.

I do think that trying to improve on Patrick MaGoohan will be very hard.

Is Patrick McGoohan contributing.

The Six of One: web site says

IT'S OFFICIAL AT LAST - nearly 4 weeks after Six of One exclusively broke the Prisoner remake story, ITV's official press release of 30th June led to numerous media sources announcing the news of a 2009 mini-series. The Prisoner Appreciation Society has monitored events since the winter of 2006 and the above page has carried all updates. The news can now rest here - until 2009, when the Prisoner is free (or not) to enthral us all again.

Six-of-one has profiled the cast here


Here is the press release

More press cuttings here


Be seeing you!

Rotf

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I do think that trying to improve on Patrick MaGoohan will be very hard.

Impossible IMHO.

I look on The Prisoner in the same way as Charlie Chaplin, Stan and Ollie, and Blake's 7 they are fine just as they are.

Maybe it will be better than the original - like the new Battlestar Galactica.

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No one has a new idear these days.

Try some stories by Joanne Harris from Jigs and Reels - lots of original short stories. There has got to be a TV series in there somewhere.

Here's here synopsis of that book + plus you can download her reading one of the stories

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Originally posted by ROTF:

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I do think that trying to improve on Patrick MaGoohan will be very hard.

Impossible IMHO.

Really?
I had all The Prisoner series on VHS and myself & a work colleague were really into it, but Patrick McGoohan although great, was very cheesy. It suited the whole thing at the time and rightly is classic stuff, but I can't accept that it couldn't be reinvented.

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but I can't accept that it couldn't be reinvented.

Does it need to be?
It's just laziness not employ writers to invent something new.
Formula music,formula films it's all so bloody depressing, hear I am with a brain the size of a planet ..........

You're right Howard. Can't disagree with any of that.
You clever boy, you.
I have a particular aversion to what I call the "Top Gun" formula; Hero all going well, falls from grace and derails, world catastrophe occurs, hero throws aside the bottle, dusts himself off, and appears from a cloud of smoking destruction to single-handedly save the planet.
Fucking formula dross. Seen it 1676 times under different titles.

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Formula music,formula films it's all so bloody depressing,

and formula one

ATB Rotf

I have The Prisoner on DVD and VHS and the entire Danger Man series. Also have Hell Drivers, Ice Station Zebra, Silver Streak, The Phantom, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, the absolute brilliant Canadian film Scanners and several strategically chosen episodes of Columbo.

He has made some duff rubbish like Braveheart.

He would have made a great Simon Templar (though Moore and Ogilvy were fine and George Sanders brilliant) and a far, far better Bond than Sean (I play every part exactly the same way) Connery.

Patrick McGoohan can be cheesy, but I like cheese.

Agree entirely about dross like Top Gun, Mad Max, Rambo, Gladiator, Highlander and well I think you get the picture - I'm more a Laurel & Hardy and George Formby fan when it comes to films.

ATB Rotf

PS Thought The Trueman Show and The Wicker Man were really good films.

PPS Margaret Rutherford was the best Miss Marple too (as well as being in that classy classic The Runaway Bus with Petula Clark)

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and formula one

I had a bet with myself, but it wasn't you I expected to say it.

I have my doubts - for example, I read (I think in the Radio Times) that number 2 is going to be played by the same actor throughout. Now, doubtless that's because they've landed Ian McKellen, but it does rather remove one of the main themes, namely that they kept sending their best people, each of whom was sure they had the means to break number six and each failed. I'm particularly fond of Hammer into Anvil, where number six decides he will break number two.

Two questions - will they keep the superb theme music? Also, I read the village was moving to Africa. Fair enough (though part of the point was that the location was always unclear). I think they'll struggle to create anything that looks so downright weird.

I tend to dislike remakes though, people generally insist on remaking things that were great (in the case of The Prisoner) peerless already. Battlestar Galactica is a notable exception, in that the remake is very good indeed. However, it turns out there was a very interesting and dark place to take the concept. I'm not convinced the Prisoner has the same potential (the original was pretty dark, and going the other way would be a disaster). The fact that it's ITV fills me with no confidence whatsoever.

What frustrates me is that there isn't more remaking of things that should be remade - i.e. where there was a good idea, but for whatever reason it didn't come off. Of course, ultimately, it's about money, and you're less likely to lose on something that was a winner before, rather than something that flopped.

According to the RT:

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ITV says the show's politics will be updated to "reflect 21st-century anxieties such as liberty, security and surveillance"

I find this particularly worrying, since it suggests to me they haven't actually watched the original - which raised all those questions and more in a way that is frighteningly topical.

That said, I'll watch it, if only to scream loudly at the TV.

regards, Tam