Ian McKellen to play Number 2 in Prisoner Remake (1 Viewer)

[Parker Clack]

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.

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[KurtEP]

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.

 

[Blaine Skerry]

Post deleted as redundant.

 

[Lew Crippen]

Who is Number One?

 

[todd s]

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

 

[Tom McA]

Or Robert Wagner

 

[Chris Lockwood]

I hope it's not as boring as the original.

 

[Kevin Hewell]

Bwaa Haa!

The things I remember about this series, from when I was a kid, were the big bouncy balls.

 

[Josh Dial]

Off-topic of course, but that's actually a decent shot of Frakes/Riker...

 

[Parker Clack]

According to McGoohan Number Six.

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

6

 

[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.

 

[SilverWook]

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.

 

[Kevin Hewell]

It's gotta be a Welsh village or it just won't work.

 

[Lew Crippen]

 

[joshEH]

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.