McKellen and Caviezel Set for Prisoner Remake

AMC and ITV will remake Patrick McGoohan’s cult TV show The Prisoner as a six-part mini with Ian McKellen as Number Two and Jim Caviezel as Number Six, reports Variety.

Written and exec produced by Bill Gallagher, who wrote the BBC’s six-episode crime mini Conviction, the new Prisoner will follow a man (Caviezel) who wakes up in a town called the Village and is given the number six in place of his name.

AMC’s Christina Wayne (who will also exec produce) said the mini will pay homage to the original late-1960s series, which McGoohan co-created and starred in, but will also stand alone.

The show is scheduled to air in 2009.