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According to IESB.net, “Batman Begins” director Chris Nolan has put his hand up to direct the film version of “The Prisoner”, a sweeping silver-screen transfer – something that has been on the cards for years, at one time with Mel Gibson implicated - of the old Patrick McGoohan starring series.
The show, which lasted only 17 episodes, told of a government agent who resigns, is kidnapped and placed on an isolated island known as the Village. He's given a new identity -- Number Six -- and interacts with an island staff trying to get him to reveal why he resigned.
Janet and David Peoples will write the film, described as being a contemporary spin on the series.
Nolan will put lens to mug on this one, as soon as he finishes work on the second Batman movie “The Dark Knight”.
Source: http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060811_prisoner_begins.html
About Chris Nolan
Born in London in 1970, Christopher Nolan began making films at the age of seven using his father's super 8mm camera and an assortment of male-action figures. He graduated to making films involving real people, and his super 8mm surreal short 'tarantella' was shown on PBS' 'image union' in 1989. Chris studied English Literature at University College London while starting to make 16mm films at the college film society. His short film 'larceny' was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival in 1996, and his other 16mm shorts include a three- minute surreal film called 'doodlebug'.
Source: IMDB
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