I'd say definitely not either of them - The Prisoner would be really difficult to adapt to another time and place without it becoming an entirely different movie. Dr Phibes is just wonderfully campy and no one would be able to play the part as well as Vincent Price.Hashi Lebwohl wrote:The Prisoner, arguably the best spy show ever made for television. It was supposed to be the psychadelic dark side of James Bond and it worked wonderfully. I wouldn't try to capture the original look of the show, which was a blend of 1920s and the 1960s, but it could be modernized and blend the 1950s with now.
Possibly Dr. Phibes, but I am uncertain who could play that part with the haunting voice that Vincent Price had. I suppose the modern version wouldn't have him connecting himself to a gramophone to speak but some sort of other broadcast device.
I just think sometimes there are movies that are best left alone. There really are some dreadful remakes that on their own aren't too bad as movies go, but lack something because the original just had a time and place of its own that can't be repeated. 'The Italian Job' would be a good example of that (although the remake really wasn't that great of a movie anyway).
