The Prisoner remake
I'm looking forward to watching new remake of The Prisoner, though I expect I will have a love/hate reaction. I know nothing about it, but I suspect they will strip it of it's social relevance and surreal awesomeness, leaving who knows what left.
Here's how I would have done the remake if they had asked me:
Number 6, aka Rambo (played by James Spader), was the top soldier in the special forces in Afghanistan in the 80s, being personally responsible for the mujahideen victory over the soviets. After that he was dropped into Sadr city in Iraq to help with the shiite uprising at the end of the gulf war. He was betrayed and had to leave behind countless friends to be slaughtered by Saddam Hussein. From there he came home and angrily submitted his resignation. Years later, right before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he was roughly woken up in his shabby little apartment, still a bit drunk from the night before. The last thing he remembers before blacking out was being hooded and drugged. He wakes up, a bit bleary-eyed, in a very nice apartment. Confused, he stumbles to the window and looks out and sees Gitmo Village (filmed on location at Portmeirion from the original series).
Among the other residents in the village is Osama Bin Laden (played by Paris Hilton). Rambo and Osama often play chess together, and Osama seems to know something but refuses to answer any questions about the village or who is number one, quoting cryptic Koran verses instead.
I can't decide who the other residents would be, but some ideas I was thinking of:
Gorbachev - played by Susan Sarandon with a cheesy Russian accent
Rumsfeld - played by Mr. T
Mao Tse Tung - played by Lucy Liu