Loved the Sixties cult thriller The Prisoner? Excited, if a little nervous at the same time, by the prospect of a new version hitting out TV screens next year? Yeah, us too.
Remaking cult British dramas seems to be all the rage at the moment. Sky One’s reviving Blake’s Seven, BBC1’s got a ‘reimagining’ of Survivors coming later this autumn and ABC in America is making a New York-set version of Life on Mars. Thrilled as we are about all these shows, however, the one we’re most looking forward to is The Prisoner.
The new version – a co-production between ITV and the US cable network AMC and starring Jim Caviezel as Number Six (the role played by Patrick McGoohan in the original) and Ian McKellen as Number Two – is not due to hit our screens until next year, but we today stumbled upon a cool viral marketing campaign that’s just launched that we thought you might want to check out.
First unveiled last weekend at Comic-Con, visitors to seekthesix.com are greeted with series of six boxes, each containing a 6×6 grid of pictures. The idea, as the site’s name suggests, is to find the picture in each section which represents six of something – in one, for instance, there is a door with the number six on, though not all, trust us, are so easy to find.
As you find each image, an enigmatic message appears. Examples we’ve stumbled upon so far include:
- I am no one
- Help me to conform, submit
- The truth is right beside you
- I don’t think you want freedom
- Identity collapse
- A bomb is a true act of humanity
- The village is not all that there is
Once you’ve successfully found all six images, pictures of Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen swing into view and then you are given your own number (mine, as you can see from the screengrab above, is 450782) and the opportunity to sign up for further email updates. If you click on the words at the top of the final screen, you are taken to AMC’s site for The Prisoner.
Give seekthesix.com a go yourself and let us know how you fare.
