Former “Jericho” star Lennie James has signed onto the cast of AMC’s update of “The Prisoner.” James will play Number 147, one of several residents in a mysterious village whose clientele includes a former secret agent.
James has spent the last two seasons working on “Jericho” as Robert Hawkins.
James will join stars Jim Caviezel as Number 6 and Ian McKellen as Number Two in the six-hour update of the popular cult series. The new “Prisoner” is set to air sometime in 2009.
A major character will be killed on this season on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” according to reports from ComicCon. Executive producer John Wirth dropped this bombshell on fans and actors from the show at the ComicCon panel. Apparently, the impending death was news to several of the actors on the panel as well.
No word yet on who will die or when, but early speculation has Agent Ellison as the likely candidate to shuffle off this mortal coil.
Wirth also said that the character dynamic between Sarah and John Connor would change this season.
Different takes on H.G. Well’s “The Invisible Man” are nothing new, but writer David Goyer thinks he’s come up with a unique follow-up to the popular novel.
“It sort of starts kind of, like, about two months after the events of the H.G. Wells book finish,” Goyer said. “And the H.G. Wells book kind of ends with, you know, the original invisible man, Griffin, [who] has these three notebooks that all of his secrets are in, and at the end of the H.G. Wells story, you establish that they’re still in existence. But … nobody knows where they are. And my story begins with those three notebooks falling into the hands of someone else, and it takes off from there.”
Goyer said he envisions a period movie, taking place around the turn of the 20th century, a few months before Queen Victoria dies. “It’s more sprawling, because it’s … big,” he said. “It’s got elements of horror, but it’s sort of a big, epic adventure movie. Part of it takes place in England; part of it takes place in Persia; part of it takes place in Siberia. … And I added a couple, I think, wrinkles to the notion of invisibility that nobody’s managed to do before. So it kind of takes it to an extreme level.”
