Here’s a follow-up to my previous story, about Nolan starting to write his next film. Variety is hearing murmurs on what this new project might be, although it’s pure speculation at this point:
Some say it will be a remake of the mystery-thriller “The Prisoner,” based on the 1960s TV series created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, which Nolan was attached to in 2009. But the sci-fi project vanished from Nolan’s dance card that same year, when AMC released its own “The Prisoners,” a six-part miniseries led by Jim Caviezel as the ill-fated agent Number Six alongside Ian McKellen and Ruth Wilson.
In November 2023, via Variety, Nolan had revealed his frustration at not being able to finish the script for “The Prisoner”. In 2006, Nolan had been tipped to write and direct the film adaptation of the TV series. He couldn’t quite “crack” the adaptation, he said, and eventually left the project in 2009.
“The Prisoner,” one of the more famous and acclaimed sci-fi TV shows, follows an agent who resigns from his job, but is then kidnapped to a mysterious seaside village full of captives and in constant surveillance. It was eventually turned into a 2009 AMC mini-series, starring Jim Caviezel.