Resurrecting McGoohan

One Hollywood studio and Keanu Reeves has already screwed up the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. I'm praying they don't fuck this up as well.

It seems that there is a "revisualization" of the classic dystopian-sci-fi series The Prisoner coming:

Rather than replicating the source material's essentially British mainframe, the team is going international, in cast, location and geopolitical concern. Instead of juxtaposing totalitarian surveillance society against bright color schemes, ubiquitous marching bands and enforcer balloons called Rovers, the new Prisoner miniseries is striving toward domestic normalcy in a world torn apart by terrorism, technology and the idea that being an individual just isn't what it once was cracked up to be

More here

Before I really got into the "meat" of a few articles and found the one I just linked, I had no idea that Patrick McGoohan had passed yesterday.

Never-the-less, this is a series ( limited though it was ) that deserves proper respect. Not often do we find such visionary programming from years past.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.