You read right. The incredibly successful TV show, Prison Break, will be returning to TV after it ended 6 years ago in 2009.
The news has been confirmed by Entertainment Weekly who spoke directly to Fox bosses Dana Walden and Gary Newman. They both confirmed that they’re developing a Prison Break event series that will feature both Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller, despite the fact that Wentworth's character, Michael died in the series finale in 2009.
“I would describe it as a bit of a sequel, it picks up the characters several years after we left them in the last season of the show,” Fox Chairman and CEO Walden told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour.
"The brothers will be back. Some of the iconic characters from that show will be back. It definitely will address some questions that were set up at the end of the series and for a new audience… It’ll start after where we left the Scofields in the final season.”
Of course the big question remains "what would be the story for Michael Scofield who died in the the series finale of the show in 2009?". Though fellow Fox Chairman and CEO Newman initially said writer Paul Scheuring would ignore the events of The Final Break, Walden backtracked. “I don’t think he’s going to completely ignore what happened in that episode, but what he pitched to us was a very logical and believable explanation in the world of Prison Break for why are character’s alive and still moving around the world. He had a very detailed incredible story for why these characters become relevant again and why they’re back,"
The Prison Break event series is only in development stages, but Newman and Walden had every faith it would go straight to series once Scheuring finished mapping out the 10-episode arcs.
TILB fans of the show, are you excited for Prison Break to return? Or do you wish they just ended it as they did in 2009?
