Why the hell not?
They give us such pablum as “Return to Gilligans Island” and “Threes Company”. Not to mention The Brady Bunch. But no movie from IMHO the best, tho short lived, tv series in TV history. Is there a particular reason or is it short sightedness? Perhaps they think they can’t compare to the series?
What gives?
From the IMDB:
How could they possibly improve on the original series? :dubious:
Anyone that read the comic “sequel” knows that you really can’t do The Prisoner justice.
Plans were shelved??? Anyone know why? Guess I should check the “Six of One” web site.
<http://www.netreach.net/~sixofone/>
<http://www.sixofone.org.uk>
Well, anyhow, I’m just glad the originals are out on DVD. Now I can go frame-by-frame and figure out why he resigned… (insert whimsical smilie with #6 button on lapel here)
Because it was incomprehensible and pointless the first time around, and how can you improve on that?
Hey, Hollywood gave us It’s Pat - the movie. They owe us. Big time!
The original took 17 hours to create a unique atmosphere. (What was in the water in Britain in those years anyway? The Prisoner, The Avengers and Monty Python all created worlds never before seen on television and not rivaled again for decades.) It was that slow buildup of a cock-eyed world of skewed paranoia that really defined the show.
I don’t see how you could do that in a two-hour movie. It would be somewhat like making a movie version of 24. The entire point of a series would be lost.
Be careful what you wish for: it may come true.
Do you really want to see a Prisoner movie with a zillion explosions, a pulsing techno soundtrack, wire-fu, and Vin Diesel as the lead?
Well…I would hope it would remain as true to the series as it could.
Just think of the Avengers movie, and never mention the Prisoner in the USA again. Please.
“Remain true to the series”… ? “Remain true to the …” Oh, man, I’m laughing too hard to type.
Name me a movie re-do of a TV series that has been anywhere close to “true to the series”? … excepting movies that are made while the same actors are available, like the movie version of the old BATMAN with Adam West, or STAR TREK movies.
According to Keifer Sutherland, that might just happen.
I guess getting tortured to death and having no oxygen reach his brain for ten minutes has sadly affected Kiefer Sutherland. 
Well, the Avengers represents a crappy reprise, sure, but is at least an ATTEMPT to do a good sequel from the original series (I assume SOMEONE was trying – though perhaps I assume too much) and as such represents a rebuttal to the OP, which implies that they don’t make movies based on good series. Even if you fail as badly as the Avengers movie did, you at least should get cred for having the sense to start with something good. As comapred to the Brady Bunch movie and so son.
I am not a remake, I am a free man!
erm … carry on.
Information… Information… Information…
Oh who cares.
The Brady Bunch movie(s) were satire, and successful at that.
Two words for ya, buddy: Mission: Impossible
Man, talk about raping the original franchise… It’s no wonder all of the original M:I cast refused to appear in the movie.
Well, there was the original movie Dragnet, back in the 1950s. It starred Jack Webb and others from the TV show (and it was in color, a big selling point). More recently, The Fugitive wasn’t bad. And there were movies based on TV comedies that were, at worst, no worse than the TV series – Munster, Go Home!, McHale’s Navy (the original 1960s version, not the recent one) and McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force. There were a couple of ** Man from U.N.C.L.E.** movies with the TV cast, and a couple of Dark Shadows movies with the TV cast.
I disagree about a Prisoner movie – you don’t need 17 hours. A Prisoner movie could be made that would be quite good. I suspect that, despite its cult status, movie producers don’t see it as “mainstream” enough to rake in the big bucks to cover its cost.
Good examples, Cal, although I did say that movies made with the same cast as the TV show tended to be OK (e.g., your examples of DRAGNET and MAN FROM UNCLE, etc). Agreed, THE FUGITIVE wasn’t bad, and the ADDAMS FAMILY movies were fine… but movies made from TV shows that don’t use the original cast and crew tend to be pretty awful on the whole.
You’ve also got the problem of movies and TV shows made from some other source material – for instance, SUPERMAN movies are not derived from SUPERMAN TV shows, and vice versa.