Back to the Village
The Prisoner was arguably the oddest piece of genre TV ever produced, a feverish mixture of espionage, psychological thriller, science fiction and the surrealist architecture of Portmeirion. It’s the definitive cult classic, a series as fascinating as it is frustrating and a puzzle people are still struggling to solve, decades later.
Later this year, it returns to television. The new version will star Jim Caviziel as Number Six and Sir Ian Mckellen as Number Two and is apparently set to explore the nature of identity and personal freedom in this wired, paranoia-drenched world. So like the man himself used to say, be seeing you…
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May 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
NO. WAY. I must find out how soon it’ll come to North America too! I have the whole original series on VHS and on DVD. McKellen is Number Two for the whole season? The whole series? Not just one episode?
I cannot wait to see this.