Home Theater Forum › Home Theater Forum › Entertainment › TV Programming › Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

post #1 of 15
7/3/08 at 6:43am
Thread Starter 



ITV has today confirmed that Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel will star in the network's remake of 1960s classic cult thriller, The Prisoner.

Click here to read the article.
Reply
post #2 of 15
7/3/08 at 7:04am

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

A remake of the prisoner? I view this with equal measures of eagerness and trepidation. Ian McKellen is a good start. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Jim Caviezel to have any real opinion about him as number 6.
Reply
post #3 of 15
7/3/08 at 9:49am

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Post deleted as redundant.
Reply
post #4 of 15
7/3/08 at 9:58am

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Who is Number One?
Reply
post #5 of 15
7/3/08 at 11:02am

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lew Crippen
Who is Number One?





Actually, it would have been funny if Number Two was played by Patrick McGoohan.
Reply
post #6 of 15
7/3/08 at 11:09am

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Or Robert Wagner
Reply
post #7 of 15
7/3/08 at 3:08pm

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

I hope it's not as boring as the original.
Reply
post #8 of 15
7/3/08 at 3:33pm

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Quote:
Originally Posted by todd s



Actually, it would have been funny if Number Two was played by Patrick McGoohan.


Bwaa Haa!

The things I remember about this series, from when I was a kid, were the big bouncy balls.
Reply
post #9 of 15
7/3/08 at 4:06pm

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Off-topic of course, but that's actually a decent shot of Frakes/Riker...
Reply
post #10 of 15
7/3/08 at 6:55pm
Thread Starter 

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Quote:
Who is Number One?

According to McGoohan Number Six.

I am a huge fan of the original and look forward to this remake. We will see.

6
Reply
post #11 of 15
7/4/08 at 4:39pm

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Jim Caviezel will play number 6. From memory I don't recall number 1 ever being revealed. Number 2 ran the place, so number 1 would be the power who pulled the strings.
Reply
post #12 of 15
7/4/08 at 5:13pm

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Lockwood
I hope it's not as boring as the original.


Unmutual!

I wonder if they will film at Portmeirion. It would be hard to come up with another locale as surreal and strange as that for The Village.

I liked the sequel DC comics once did, where a new character ends up in the abandoned and ruined Village, presided over by an older (and crazier) Number Six.
Reply
post #13 of 15
7/4/08 at 7:42pm

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

It's gotta be a Welsh village or it just won't work.
Reply
post #14 of 15
7/5/08 at 6:41am

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Quote:
Originally Posted by Garrett Adams
Jim Caviezel will play number 6. From memory I don't recall number 1 ever being revealed. Number 2 ran the place, so number 1 would be the power who pulled the strings.
On the off-chance that a few have not seen the series:

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Number One is revealed in the last episode (as I recall) to Number Six by Number Two—as being himself. That is Number Six who has been trying to escape is the very one who is in charge.

In the end we realize that all along we (along with Number Six) have known the identity of Number One, as revealed in the opening dialogue of every episode (as best I remember):

Number Two: I am Number Two.

Number Six: Who is Number One?

Number Two: You are Number Six.

Which of course can be phrased as: You are, Number Six
Reply
post #15 of 15
7/5/08 at 5:45pm

Re: Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake

Quote:
Originally Posted by todd s
Dude, you know you're a filthy, filthy cheat, right?

That's Tom Riker -- the simultaneous post-TNG commbadge and the peeled-off sideburns are the clues.
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: TV Programming
Home Theater Forum › Home Theater Forum › Entertainment › TV Programming › Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake