El Chapo might have dug complex, authority-defying tunnels in order to escape his cell, but he’s soon to have serious competition for the title of escapee du jour as Prison Break is set to return for a 10-episode run on Fox.
Fox chairman and CEO Gary Newman announced the news at the TCAs in Pasadena, revealing original creator Paul Scheuring and stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell are involved in the reboot.
The show has found a new audience since it was acquired by Netflix, where the previous four seasons have become cult curios among streamers.
“Once we have those written materials, I feel confident we’ll go straight to series with that one,” said Newman, according the Wrap.
Fox’s Dana Walden added: “It picks up with the characters several years after we left them in the show. The brothers will be back. Some of the iconic characters from that show will be back.”
She confessed that there is some ambiguity over what course the show will take, but it will ignore the 2009 movie spin-off, which saw the death of Michael Schofield, the character Miller plays.
“I don’t think Paul knows exactly where it’s going over the 10-episode arc, but it will address some of the questions from the original show but also appeal to new audiences,” she said.
The show received mixed reviews when it debuted in 2006 with Charlie Brooker calling it: “Possibly the dumbest story ever told,” adding that “It makes 24 look like cinéma vérité.”
