rec.arts.movies.past-films

> From: "Jim Beaver"
> Organization: AT&T
> Newsgroups:
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:37:20 -0700
> Subject: Re: Remake Road
>
>
> "Marv Soloff" wrote in message
> news: $ @trnddc07...
>> Just finished watching "The Girl Who Was Death" episode of "The Prisoner"
>> (UK 1967).
>> Patrick McGoohan and Justine Lord. I remember this series from the
>> original run on CBS and
>> I don't think there has been an action series to equal it. "The Prisioner"
>> was a seminal
>> work - how do we get it remade instead of hearing about all the dreck that
>> is now in
>> the pipeline.
>
> It's happening as we speak:
>
> Nolan Unlocks 'Prisoner'
> 11 August 2006 (IMDb Update)
> Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan has inked a deal with Universal
> Pictures to direct their feature adaptation of the cult British TV series
> The Prisoner per Variety. Based on the short-lived 1967 show starring
> Patrick McGoohan as super cool inmate Number Six, the film tells the
> modern-day story of a former secret agent trying to break free from his
> island captors.

Will it be entitled "Guantanamo"?
GMW