Ridley Scott Planning ‘Prisoner’ Remake

Gladiator director Ridley Scott is in talks to direct The Prisoner, Universal’s film adaptation of the 1968 Patrick McGoohan-led British TV series. In the original series The Prisoner (known only as Number Six) is a former government agent who abruptly resigns from his job and finds himself imprisoned in an idyllic yet bizarre seaside village isolated from the world.

He can’t escape because he knows too much, but that doesn’t stop others trying to capture him for his knowledge. What he wants is to keep them at bay and find a way to freedom.

William Monahan finished the most recent draft of the script which also had work done on it by Christopher McQuarrie. Numerous writers and actors are circling the project which Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark will produce.

Scott is currently getting ready for Alien: Covenant at the minute, which sure should prove to be interesting.