Christopher Nolan To Take 'The Prisoner'

The Prisoner
Christopher Nolan is nearing a deal to direct a feature version of TV series classic The Prisoner, according to Variety.

Series lasted only 17 episodes in 1967. Patrick McGoohan played 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.