Have you heard about the new TV series?
Not a remake per se:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798 ... 1&nid=2563
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mrkelley23
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Sir_Galahad
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I don't know - it sounds like a remake to me. And, AFAIC, some things should be left alone. While I like both Caviezel and McKellen as actors, cannot imagine recreating perfection. To me, it would be like trying to recreate The Man From U.N.C.L.E. satisfactorily. It just cannot be done, IMO. I was really looking forward to the remake of The Andromeda Strain and, boy, did that turn out to be stiff, IMO. Sometimes, putting all that fancy whiz-bang CGI and modern technology stuff into something that worked without it, does not guarantee that it will be better.
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Why couldn't they have gotten Patrick McGoohan to play Number Two?
(For the record, I thought that Sam Neill should have played the lead in the remake of The Omen as well)
The Prisoner was groundbreaking television, envisioning a society that had never been shown on television before (and almost never in mainstream films either). It also refused to pander to the lowest element in the viewing audience by not spelling out every single plot detail (leading to current similarly opaque shows like Lost). What The Prisoner did is commonplace today. I doubt a competent remake could be anything more than a slick update of the original series, while a poorly conceived one could easily be a disaster.
(For the record, I thought that Sam Neill should have played the lead in the remake of The Omen as well)
The Prisoner was groundbreaking television, envisioning a society that had never been shown on television before (and almost never in mainstream films either). It also refused to pander to the lowest element in the viewing audience by not spelling out every single plot detail (leading to current similarly opaque shows like Lost). What The Prisoner did is commonplace today. I doubt a competent remake could be anything more than a slick update of the original series, while a poorly conceived one could easily be a disaster.
