A nine minute trailer for The Prisoner remake is now up at The Prisoner Online. As well as the gorgeous setting, it seems to have neatly co-opted the original series’ surreal touches and used them to play three card monte with the viewer. Is it a conspiracy? Time travel? Aliens? Either way, it looks great and can’t turn up quickly enough for my taste.
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The Village is Open for Business: The Prisoner Preview
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009En Route to The Village
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009This year’s reboot of The Prisoner got a little closer today as AMC released the first trailer. Like the man says, be seeing you…
Back to the Village
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 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…