The 1960s sci-fi phenomenon, The Prisoner TV series, looks to be headed back to the small screen in 2009. AMC and British network ITV is re-making the cult show into a six-part mini-series that will begin shooting later this summer.
Patrick McGoohan co-created the original Prisoner series, directed it, and starred in it as well. The show centers on the imprisonment of a resigned British secret agent (McGoohan) in a seemingly serene and beautiful village of unknown location. The captive agent, renamed Number Six (all prisoners in the village are numbered), is constantly interrogated, manipulated and tormented by sinister figures known only as Number Two. In addition to being a psychological thriller that was way ahead of its time, The Prisoner demonstrated a number of political metaphors for the corruption of power, struggles for freedom, and the enslavement of the masses by commercial/political interests.
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