The Prisoner Remake.

[shivkala]

I'd posted this to another thread on the trailer, but to summarize, I watched only the first 4 minutes and then turned it off because it was getting too far into spoiler territory for my liking.

I agree. Why produce a nine minute trailer for a six-part series? Seems like heaps. Just a three minute trailer would've been better.

Oh, good, I'm not the only one. The preview seemed more like a recap of the series than a coming attraction.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I'd posted this to another thread on the trailer, but to summarize, I watched only the first 4 minutes and then turned it off because it was getting too far into spoiler territory for my liking.

I agree. Why produce a nine minute trailer for a six-part series? Seems like heaps. Just a three minute trailer would've been better.

The trailer was made for Comic Con; so it was bound to be longer than your usually quick clip one. Bryan Singer did the same thing when he previewed Superman Returns the year before the movie came out. If JMS didn't show a full episode, he'd often show longer trailers (or episode clips) at Comic Con.

It's a tradition that Comic Con get the "good stuff," so to speak.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

Six actually strikes me as being rather short for the premise (assuming one hour episodes) but it certainly won't wear out its welcome at that length. 13 might be stretching it.

6 one hour eps would be like the Star Wars OT. 13 would be like adding in the prequels.

 

[WillsBabe]

I'm not impressed. However, I will watch it because I want to see what they do with it. And it might win me over.

 

[23skidoo]

Has there been any word as to when AMC is going to broadcast this? I was hoping we'd get some sort of indication when the trailer was released, but nada. I watched those first 4 minutes again ( ) and I spotted a bunch of stuff I didn't the first time. That's a great sign that this could end up being not only must-see TV but must-rewatch TV, much like the original series.

I just hope AMC isn't deciding to, like, hold it for 2010 or something.

The Blu-Ray of the original series, plus a "special edition" reissue of the Megabox are supposed to be out by the end of October (here in North America) so that could suggest a November broadcast...

Something else I haven't heard is whether it'll be a weekly series or if they're going to air all 6 episodes back-to-back like BBC did with Children of Earth.

Alex

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Premieres Nov 2009!

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Damn! I was one of the ones claiming that a Prisoner remake couldn't be done, at least not in any way that would really justify its existence.

I don't know why anyone would doubt it. It has a durable premise that won't wear out its welcome after just a few episodes and keep in mind, most people watching won't know or care that there was ever another version of the story. Same as with almost all remakes.

I read an interview where the makers of this adaptation were instead questioning modern society's cult of the individual, suggesting maybe we've taken it too far in the other direction. Something like that. I don't quite get what they were saying, and I don't know if it will work.

Wow, sounds ambitious. It's easy to see how to make a paranoid fantasy about the destruction of the individual - and the problem of course is that the idea is not very fresh to say the least. To try to make the opposite point sounds counterintuitive and hard to pull off, but at least they aren't doing the same old thing.

So I guess this isn't the "durable premise" that I assumed they would be going for. This is more interesting than I expected...

The fact that a paranoid fantasy about the destruction of the individual isn't very fresh anymore is a big part of why I doubted that a worthwhile remake of The Prisoner could ever be done. I suspected that it was going to be the exact same ideas but less subversive and with a far less inventive visual scheme. Visually, I was expecting default dark & gritty as opposed to the original's '60s surrealism.

So far, this new version looks very different from what I expected. Now we might have something worthwhile. I simply hope that it maintain's the original's very non-literal interpretation.

 

[Chrisisall]

Visually, I was expecting default dark & gritty as opposed to the original's '60s surrealism.

So far, this new version looks very different from what I expected. Now we might have something worthwhile. I simply hope that it maintain's the original's very non-literal interpretation.

It will suck.


Unless it doesn't. Rovers will tell.

 

[cb31]

Looking forward to this! Hope it's worth the wait.