I keep seeing refrences to the on-again, off-again remake project for the masterfully bizzare '60s show The Prisoner (a personal favorite of mine). Apparently, shooting was completed in December and it will in fact air this year:
Anyone taking bets as to whether it will suck?
I recently watched the DVD of the final episode of The Prisoner, just to see if now, 40 years later, I could understand it from a more mature, more sophisticated, better educated point of view.
Nope. It’s still weird as hell.
That’s the problem. If they try to remake The Prisoner as more… linear, purists will complain they destroyed the symbolism and subtext. If they try to be faithful to the original, 99.9999 percent of the audience will come away asking “what the hell was that?”
If a major network was doing it, I’d be worried. But AMC is great when it comes to new shows.
On the plus side also, it has Ian McKellan.
ALSO, check the AMC site & THEY ARE SHOWING ALL THE OLD PRISONER EPS!!!
I fear that the particular blend of glorious wierdness that was the Prisoner will not survive well as a remake.
It made no sense when new-why should it make sense 40+ years later?
The original Prisoner had a very strong 60s ethos of “rebelling against the system” that I don’t think would play well today (because, you know, the system won). So I wonder what slant the remake is going for- an X-Files type conspiracy story?