Thirty class after Leo McKern countermand the use , it ’s time to match the young Number Two . AMC is bringing back Patrick McGoohan ’s Graeco-Roman 1960s paranoiafest The Prisoner with Jim “ cacoethes of the Christ ” Caviezel taking over the role of the secret agent who finds that there ’s no such matter as an easy room out of the intelligence game .
The new interpretation of the series – co - develop by ITV in the UK , which gave us the original show – will be a six - hour miniseries that reboots the concept of Caviezel ’s nameless undercover agent being kidnapped to the mysterious “ Village , ” where mass are known only by numbers and everyone is out to encounter out what secrets everyone else is obscure . Sir Ian McKellen has sign on on to take on main badguy Number Two for the entire run , replacing the revolving “ Number Two of The Week ” Edgar Guest - slot of the original show .
The show is expected to premier midway through next twelvemonth .
Ian McKellen to lead in ITV ’s The Prisoner remake[The Guardian ]
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