NP - The Prisoner Reboot

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Ditto the dubiousness.  There's also a film version slated for 2012, written and directed by the Nolan brothers (of The Prestige and Dark Knight fame).  

In the meantime,

http://www.theprisoneronline.com/theprisoner/html/prisoner_movie.html

Laura
-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 14, 2009 11:33 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: NP - The Prisoner Reboot
>
>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."
>