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The Prisoner - 9 minutes of the new series and Rover is in it

Check out this footage of The Prisoner remake. It stars James Caviezel as Number 6 and Sir Ian McKellan as 2. Have a watch and let me know what you think. It is quite a bit different from the original series but nice and bizarre nonetheless.

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The Prisoner - TV spot for remake of classic TV show

Finally we have a trailer for the new TV show, The Prisoner. It's a remake of the Patrick Macgoohan classic and this one stars Jim Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellan.

It doesn't really show much so I'm not sure how surreal and bizarre it will be. Will there be a Rover in it? Let me know your thoughts on it.

The Prisoner Promo

Source: Quiet Earth

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The Prisoner and The Day of The Triffids posters

Dougray Scott, Brian Cox, Joely Richardson and Eddie Izzard with a gun in this poster for the BBC's remake of The Day of The Triffids. I personally think it is a bit of a poor poster design, but I am looking forward to seeing the show.

I do like the poster for AMC's The Prisoner series. Jim Caviezel is Number 6 and Ian McKellan is Number 2.

Source: io9

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The Random - Catch up edition - Astro Boy, Captain Marvel, Piranha 3D, Iron Man 2, The Hobbit, Sex and the City, Galactica, Observe and Report,

John Cleese is developing a stage musical of his classic 80's comedy A Fish Called Wanda with his daughter Camilla. They're hoping to have it finished in the next two to three years and debut it in San Diego with the hope of the production continuing on to Broadway and the West End..." (full details)

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Sam Rockwell confirms talk that he's playing the character of Justin Hammer in the upcoming Iron Man sequel... (full details)

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Also, despite reports of its death, producer Lynn Hendee says the Ender's Game movie is still alive and kicking and insists the "project is not dead". She told The LA Times the other week that "[Card] was not interested in a ‘tough-hero action film’ and refuses to condescend to green-screen Hollywood. Card imagines a ‘film where the human relationships are absolutely essential — an honest presentation of the story.’"..." (full details)

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Seth Rogen comedy Observe and Report will have its world premiere at the SXSW festival on March 16th, nearly a full month before its general release on April 10th. Rogen plays an egocentric mall cop who tries to impress a perfume girl (Anna Faris) by catching a mall flasher before the whacked out local police detective (Ray Liotta)...(full details)

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The Prisoner Video Blogs - Sir Ian McKellen talks and we see some of The Village

Sir Ian McKellen plays #2 in the remake of The Prisoner. Here is what he has to say on the look of The Village, the prison that holds #6, James Caviezel

As we come to the end of our Namibian shoot, there is hardly a corner of Swakopmund that hasn't been used in the retelling of The Prisoner.

The fictional Village Shop that sells only maps is actually a corner emporium where you can buy for real anything second-hand, from old postcards to washing machines and used clothes.

The Palais Two, where my character (and his family) lives, is in reality the biggest hotel in town and once the railway station. We had intended to shoot scenes in the hotel forecourt doubling as Two's gardens but our schedule changed and these will now happen in the Cape Town studios.

My first glimpse of The Village before rehearsals was a striking photo of the A-frame holiday chalets on the outskirts of town, which are too regimented for comfort. In reality they are just as unprepossessing, not made any less so by a huge poster of Two declaring the opening of "More Village", an image that would be a telling advert for the series if hung aloft on Sunset Boulevard.

The quirky Solar Café, where momentous events propel the story along, is actually an imported set but looks so in keeping with Swakopmund that some entrepreneurial local asked to buy it as a souvenir of filming. As it has now been destroyed during the action, that wasn't possible.

Tourism to Swakopmund may never be the same again. There have been a number of international feature films shot here recently against the desert landscape. Apart from The Prisoner, there is rumoured to be a Bollywood musical larking among the dunes, but we have had neither sight nor sound of it. As The Prisoner has been shooting in the town as much as the sand, viewers of the series may well want to check out for themselves the realities of The Village location, much as Portmerion attracted fans of the original series.

After completing other films I have kept (or been given) mementoes of the sets. I have the panels from the underground assembly room in Richard III. I have the keys from Bag End and Gandalf's sword. I have James Whale's easel and paintbrushes -- though these are the genuine articles, bought on Ebay. What to retain from The Prisoner? Two's tie-pin? one of the Village logo's? a bottle of black pills from the safe?

You might tell from my posts that I am no spoiler, so revelations about plot and character are few. All I can promise is that hidden within this dispatch is mention of something so vital to understanding what The Village is all about, I'm surprised that I've been allowed to mention it....

There are lots of other cool things to see on The Prisoner blog. I'm just curious to see what Rover will look like.
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Outlander - Vikings vs Aliens

During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan (James Caviezel), a man from a
far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known
as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence
committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing
his advanced technology with the Viking's Iron Age weaponry.

This sounds bloody brilliant. I remember reading about the whole Vikings vs Aliens thing months ago and thought it was a great idea but didn't think anything would come of it, or if it did it would be a great big pile of steaming Biffness. However, I've watched the trailer now and it looks solid. Plus it stars Jesus Christ himself, James Caviezel (who , according to Variety, has signed up to play Number Six in a remake of The Prisoner alongside Sir Ian McKellan) along with John Hurt and Ron Perlman (The Prof and Big Red together again). It's directed by Howard McCain who did a film back in 1994 called No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn I kid you not.

I'm still looking forward to Outlander though and the official site has some good photos to wet your appetite even more. Not sure when it is exactly out, Ron Perlman in a recent interview said, "I don't know what's going on with Outlander. Outlander was supposed to come out last March, and I don't know why it didn't. I can't get any kind of answer as to what the status of it is."