NP - The Prisoner Reboot

[David Morris]

Count me as "dubious."

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/the-prisoner-re.html

HOLLYWOOD — The Prisoner's bold ambition and cult celebrity earned the
'60s show a spot in TV history. Now the creative team rebooting the
sci-fi spy classic for the 21st century is hoping to recapture both
the dystopian fear and the cultural cachet of the original.

Rather than replicating the source material's essentially British
mainframe, the team is going international, in cast, location and
geopolitical concern. Instead of juxtaposing totalitarian surveillance
society against bright color schemes, ubiquitous marching bands and
enforcer balloons called Rovers, the new Prisoner miniseries is
striving toward domestic normalcy in a world torn apart by terrorism,
technology and the idea that being an individual just isn't what it
once was cracked up to be.

"We're all total fans of the original, but we couldn't copy it,"
producer Trevor Hopkins told a crowd gathered Thursday at the
Universal Hilton to preview the new Prisoner for the press. "We wanted
to reinterpret it as a thriller. We wanted it to be as unfathomable as
the original."