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Christopher Nolan Leaves The Prisoner

Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 2:19 pm by George

It was reported back in 2006 that Christopher Nolan would direct The Prisoner, a film adaptation of the 1960′s television show, for Universal. Producer Barry Mendel, speaking to CineFools, has now confirmed that Chris Nolan has dropped out of it.” The script, written by David and Janet Peoples (Twelve Monkeys), will continue to be worked on even with Nolan out of the project. And now with The Prisoner out of the way, Christopher Nolan is now free to pursue any project once Inception is completed.

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DHOPW42

Hmmm, what were you implying when you wrote: “Nolan is now free to pursue any project”?;-):-D
apw

Was The Prisoner ever in the way?

When he did press for TDK and got asked about it he non-committal about it. I’m guessing he already left the project at that point.
http://www.nolanfans.com George

The Prisoner was really the only looming commitment that he had.
Now there’s nothing to distract him from a third Batman film once Inception is completed.
And I sort of would rather see him direct his own scripts.
DHOPW42

“And I sort of would rather see him direct his own scripts.”

Very, very agreed.
http://nolanfans@gmail.com teddyb

I with apw in thinking this project was never really in the way. It was assumed dead, for Nolan at least, for a year or so now. Inception was the final nail in the coffin IYAM.

Anyways. Glad this officially frees up his schedule to do other things…
Brandon

I’m sorry to hear this, because I love the Prisoner and I think that a Nolan-helmed version would have been brilliant. And with D & J Peoples writing it, it seemed to be a film of great potential.

I hope an equally talented director gets attached and that this doesn’t get stuck in development hell.

In the end though, I’m excited for Inception and the next Batman…
Nicoco

I hope after Inception Nolan says : “yeah I”m working in a third Batman film” and no start with his tipica “Wll I don”t know, you know, nothing is for sure” .
Eternalist

I thinks it’s interesting to note that Nolan “dropped out”. That means that he either found facets of the project undesirable or he did it to deliberatley free-up his schedule (for Batman 3! )

Quite interesting.
apw

Directors join and leave projects all the time.

I think he porbably left before TDK even came out.

I don’t think it has anything to do with Batman 3.
dagn96

YES!! I was worried about TP if Nolan would do it or not
Jonny

I just hope Nolan woks on Batman 3 after Inception.
akv1984

This is old news. I thought that he left The Prisoner a long time ago when AMC announced that they were making a TV series.
Eternalist

If you know Chris Nolan, you know that he’s pretty reliable (read: dedicated) about the commitments he makes as a director. So if he WAS attached to The Prisoner, and suddenly detached himself from the project, there would have to be a pretty good reason for him to do so.