“I don’t have time… my mind is spinning“Don’t blame us if you have those titles stuck in your head all day. But the occasion was too good to announce the order for a full season of the Prison Break reboot, as it turns out. term.
In this all-new prison escape written by Elgin James, a warden-turned-military wife works in one of America’s most dangerous prisons to prove how far she’ll go for the one she loves. The development of the project was announced at the end of 2023 and the pilot started in December. Hence the serial is taking the much awaited step of firm and firm order which will ensure the telecast of the serial.
Who is starring in the new Prison Break?
We already announced it a few months ago, the cast of this new version includes Emily Browning as Cassidy, Drake Rogers as Tom, Lucas Gage as Jackson, Clayton Cardenas as Michael “Ghost”, JR Bourne Jr., George Flores as “Dareai”.
As previously announced, the Elgin James version will be standalone and set in the same universe as the original series created by Paul Scheuring. Therefore, it’s not really a reboot anymore, but a spin-off. So don’t expect to see the central characters of the original project, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) again.
The series, which immediately became a cult
The original Prison Break series, which first aired in 2005, followed Michael, a young man determined to prove his death row brother Lincoln’s innocence and save him from execution by devising an elaborate plan to escape from prison. The series ran on M6 in France for four seasons, followed by a TV movie called La Dernier Évasion, which aired after the final episode of Season 4.
Because time is nostalgic, a fifth season saw the light of day in 2017, still with Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, but without the same success as the previous seasons. But coincidentally, Prison Break was the most-watched series in the United States in August 2024, according to Nielsen, the local Médiamétrie.
In France, all episodes of the original series are available to stream on Disney+.
Why can we be sure of this return?
If Prison Break made an impact right after it aired, we have to admit that the series reached the end of its concept pretty quickly and had a hard time renewing it. But there’s hope, because now, it’s Elgin James in charge of producing, executive producing, writing and directing the show, which was filmed in West Virginia last June.
Paul Scheuring, creator of the original series, is an executive producer.
The good news is that Elgin James created, produced and directed the series Mayans MC – a spin-off of Sons of Anarchy – which ran for five seasons. He also wrote, directed and composed the music for his first film, Little Birds, starring Juno Temple and Leslie Mann. The film premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won the National Board of Review Award.
So it looks like he has all the assets to revive this streak, or take it even further.
Source: Allocine
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