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Post by Ian McArdell on Mar 13, 2024 15:59:18 GMT
Rumours abound that Christopher Nolan, hot off his Oscar success with Oppenheimer, fancies turning The Prisoner into a movie. I've had a couple of thoughts over at CultBox - what do other's think? A period piece, a retro-styled 60s effort (like the Big Finish version), or the whole thing reimagined for the 21st century? And who's the ideal star to lead it... the obvious choice would be Cillian Murphy, but I reckon you need an actor hot off a spy property like McGoohan was... |
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Post by timleschild on Mar 13, 2024 16:09:26 GMT
Nolan I think is perfect for this, he can combine action with intelligent plotting, especially if he gets his brother Jonathan Nolan to help with the screenplay.
Richard Armitage as Number 6.
Tilda Swinton or Kristin Scott Thomas as Number 2.
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Post by Star Platinum on Mar 13, 2024 17:01:36 GMT
This could be very interesting. Nolan has an excellent track record, and The Prisoner is very ripe storytelling material. I’m concerned that compressing it down into a single story, could hurt the production.
I’m not sure how franchise pillars like the various schemes, Rover or the cavalcade of number two’s could work in a self contained story.
Still this is Nolan after all and I’m content to let the man cook.
After all it can’t be any worse than Jesus vs Magneto.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Mar 14, 2024 17:48:55 GMT
I don't see this working as a movie. "I Am Not A Number!" works to retell the Prisoner in a half-hour because it's a parody and we expect to see (or hear, rather) minimokes and green domes and multiple Number 2s, but you can't rely on that if you expect to draw a fresh audience to a movie. The first Prisoner novel tries to retell the entire series in one go (it's a very odd book, No 6 basically gets dragged back to the Village and has to relive everything all over again, as far as I can make out) and it doesn't really work.
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Post by timleschild on Mar 15, 2024 0:00:25 GMT
I just had a thought, Tom Cruise is gonna want to star in this isn't he. He wants some of that Nolan action & kudos.
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