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Only a fool would suggest re-recording [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, or trying to recreate Geoff Hurst’s World Cup-winning hattrick. Yet film and TV producers can never resist attempting to re-bottle screen magic, and so a series as indelibly of its time as The Prisoner gets its refit.
Is the 2010 model any good? It’s been five years in gestation, with first Sky and then ITV joining American outfit AMC, the people behind Mad Men, in developing it.
Caviezel’s character wakes in the desert, oblivious to how and why he is there. He sees an old man being chased by unseen pursuers with dogs. The old man dies and the new arrival makes his way to the Village.
Caviezel Stranded in the Desert
Portmeirion, the toy town Welsh resort of the original, has been jettisoned in favour of an equally strange German colonial resort in Swakopmund, Namibia. Also gone is the wonderful opening credit sequence in which McGoohan’s character is apparently abducted from London.
Big money and production values have been thrown at this six-parter [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with a goodish cast pulled in. Ian McKellen as Number Two and Ruth Wilson as 313 are the good bits, while James Caviezel as Number Six is OK. However, when compared with McGoohan, the star and creator of the original, he comes up a long way short in charisma. Handsome [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but impassive and ordinary.
Patrick McGoohan’s exuberant, puzzling The Prisoner avoided capture and re-programming by the powers that be for 40-odd years. But now the makeover merchants have finally collared this cherished, 1967 cult adventure and it finds itself back on ITV primetime screens, re-charged and recast for the 21st century. Be seeing you, indeed.
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